I found the solution on the archwiki!

Never used Arch before in my life, but the wiki is great. Rising tide lifts all boats and all that jazz

Welcome to the club, good to have you.

Cookies and coffee are in the break room.

Welcome to the club, we're glad to have you.

I wish manjaro wasn't so highly recommended to new users. It kept me from fully migrating due to stability issues that I thought were representative of Linux as a whole, but just aren't.

Good on you. It's about finding what works for you, not what other people think it's cool.

I've been playing with Linux for nearly 30 years and never used Arch or Gentoo for daily work. It's fun to try, you learn a lot by tinkering, breaking and fixing stuff. But what you really need every day is a solid boring stable distro to get things done.

Good work picking PopOS, it's the one I recommend to everyone too.

Welcome 🙂. I always loved bleeding edge so Arch really suits me well. There's probably a distro out there for everyone and you seemingly have found yours!

Your rationale for going Pop was my exact one. I knew I wanted the bleeding edge, but this was a device I was going to (mostly) daily drive. I wanted it to be reliable. And Pop fixed that for me and didn't force my hand with shoving Snaps down my throat.

Glad to have another join the ranks!

You know, I started with Pop! when I changed my gaming rig over a couple years ago. I always said I'd change over to something else, like Arch, which I use on other systems.

But Pop! has been surprisingly good. It's a nice mix of stability and ability to swap out parts without issue. For example, I use the Liquorix kernel (similar goal to Arch's Zen kernel) instead of the default Pop! kernel without any issue at all.

So I've just never changed it. I update of course but it's the same original install it's always been. Great experience.

Compared to almost all other distros, Arch is advanced in the way that it's the simplest of them all. Nothing except the very basics are set up for you, so it's tough to start with.

PopOS is the one that finally made me a Linux fulltimer too, after 15ish years. Welcome!

I've been on PopOS for about 2 years now. I did have to dual boot windows about 6 months ago because the Sunshine streaming server refused to work consistently on linux, and I lacked the experience to properly diagnose why the issue was happening.

I multibox so the overhead of a compatibility layer and the sheer power required to run windowed (for some fucking reason) to keep full screens from minimizing on focus loss has forced me to run windows again. Being able to tab out but not being able to tab back into something that launched from a game launcher is an extra special fuck you.

For me linux is way to much of a hassle right now. I'm looking to offload my arr stack onto my nas or jellyfin box because while I'm gaming, which is most of the time, I'm not sailing.

I don't see myself uninstalling Pop but it hardly feels like a daily driver anymore.

I've been experimenting with Raspbian and RPi compatible distros. Now I needed a PC for some self hosting stuff. I tried Debian and arch with not much success. Tonight I installed Mint then PhotoPrism without a terminal error that I need to google for solution! Even the video card is detected. Everything worked and now it's chugging away doing all the work instead of me troubleshooting.

one of us! one of us!

Raise the sails, we are going to high seas!

Sorry for the bad experience Manjaro gave you with rolling release, and Flatpak sucks.

In my own use of Manjaro, I've found timeshift to be invaluable. If something breaks at a time when I can't deal with fixing it, I timeshift to a known good install, and get back to fixing whatever broke in the up-to-date snapshot later.