Sorry if I’m not the first to bring this up. It seems like a simple enough solution.

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    Suddenly your video card is as mundane and trivial a solved problem as your keyboard or mouse.

    It just works and you never have to even think about it.

    To even consider that a reality as someone who’s used Linux since Ubuntu 8.10… I feel spoiled.

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      Those were rough days. I started with Dapper Drake but there was no way to actually get my trackpad drivers until 8.04. Kudos for sticking with linux

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        I was hooked. It was the first time my PC felt as transparent and lie-free as notebook paper.

        Like, there’s nothing to hide because nothing is. It’s pure, truthful freedom and that meant more to me than raw usability. I tried to do everything possible on Linux that i was told I couldn’t do, hell, I ran Team Fortress 2 and Half Life in wine way pre-proton.

        and it sucked, but it was cool tho!

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      Don’t even get me started on linux audio support.

      I recall exactly once back in the day that Ubuntu actually just played audio through a laptop I installed it on and I damn near lost my mind.

      like 30 minutes ago I installed Mint on a laptop and literally everything just worked as if I installed windows from the backup image. (I’m not sure power states are working 100% but it’s close enough and probably would with 3rd party driver)

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        I used some Ubuntu derivative for recording shitty music me and my buddy made in a trailer. OSS off of a turtle beach soundcard with a hacked together driver, crammed into a shitty Windows Vista era desktop.

        I felt like some sort of junk wizard.

        I use arch these days, Garuda mainly. I’ve done the whole song and dance from Arch to Gentoo. I know the system, now I want to relax and let something I suck at, giving myself features be more in the hands of a catering staff of folks and the Garuda boys know how to pamper.

        The dragons kinda… yeah, the art’s kinda cringe but damn, this is the definition of fully featured.