lol… the KDE crowd seems really devoted, and intent on snagging a new convert. I’ll give it a shot I’m sure. But I’m definitely saving an image of this just in case.

I’m the same way. I just started using Linux and Landed on Pop!OS. Tumbleweed is high on my short list of things to try, but I finally got everything working, and boy is it working well.

I think the reason is my hardware profile is extremely similar to Pop!OS products, so I just happened to land on something per-optimized for my system out of dumb luck. I’m frankly shocked at how far linux has come. Lutro is what we’ve been waiting for on game installs for better than 20 years. Steam integration is of course nice, but I hate using game stores and hate being locked into that.

Anyways, been a cool experience so far.

I’m not even going to do you the dignity of reading this.

Then feel free to fuck off.

You came in here and started this saying it’s basically my fault I had a bad time with Fedora. Your condescending and pretentious attitude has been noted, but I’m a new user to Linux my man. None of this is familiar. As my day 2 and 3 posts show I can actually troubleshoot and fix things, if I couldn’t figure it out, I’d say it’s indicative of production and deployment issues on the developers end.

But please feel free to not respond, you’re exactly the kind of Linux user that gives the community it’s negative stigma.

…there’s a faq on the router itself that told me how to do it in windows. That was show I got on the right path for Linux. So yes definitely easier when the manufacturer includes instructions for one but not the other. Granted the windows process is significantly easier to get it enabled.

Honestly, I don’t really care what you think.

Linux users say that this is some kind of easy to use, can replace windows at any point in time, yet one of the most popular distros in existence is definitely not ready for prime time.

My day 2 and 3 posts have been pretty highly upvoted! Almost like linux users only like hearing the good and not the bad.

You should check out my submissions. I’m on day 3 of documenting my linux experience.

It wasn’t a simple fix. The drive was off an ASUS router which uses samba v1 and the fix was reenabling it via editing the text files, then the specific mount command in fstab required a ‘ver=1’ argument to be manually placed in there.

So no my assessment that this is not an easy process is spot on, and I’ve spent 3 days setting up and configuring linux at this point, all of which I could have done in an hour in Windows.

Yep! Pop!OS is my current OS.

After researching Nobara was actually my first choice of OS! Sadly, I couldn’t get the live USB off their site to work, all I ever got was a black screen when booting from the USB. When I did it in command line it threw some kernel errors.

Fedora KDEPlasma was my second choice as I liked the desktop layout. It didn’t like it when I installed the nvidia drivers.

Fedora 39 workstation was my last fedora. I actually got Nvidia working on it. But when I tried to play a video from my NAS server it was choppy and would crash when tracking within the video file. Which I’m guessing is some Nvidia compatibility issues based on what I was reading on the forums, which is apparently a known and unresolved issue in Fedora 39 as of now.

Pop!OS just worked. Off the rip, zero issues whatsoever with Nvidia or graphics issues. Most issues have been caused by my inexperience so far.

You can read about my experience with Fedora on my day 1 post if you’d like. Bottom line, there were a TON of issues with Nvidia compatibility, and VLC ran like garbage on it.

I’ve been documenting my experience with switching over to linux and how it’s gone. Day 1 and 2 posts have been made.

Fedora is terrible from my day 1 experience.

distro?

Try a samba v1 network drive and get back to me.

Thanks lol, stream is working great too, much better than Fedora. Way less choppy and it doesn’t crash when you seek on VLC, so Pop!OS is clearly the superior distro here.

I do need to figure out the login eventually. I need read/write access and as anon I can’t write, but I’ll come back to that. I’m getting a ton of stuff set up now.

Holy crap I got it to work. smbv1 is not enabled by default on Linux.

Once I went through the tutorial and added

client min protocol = NT1 server min protocol = NT1

to smb.conf, it worked and I could connect!

Sadly it still wouldn’t accept my username and password, but I set it to allow anon login and that’s working 100% right now. So… just need to figure out why it won’t accept username and password. Moment of truth comes when I test VLC again too.

I’m probably going to end back up on windows.

Did download PopOS though, it already beats the hell out of Fedora because off the rip Nvidia just works.

However I still cannot connect to my network drive. I can see it fine in +other locations, but when I open it it says “unable to access location: failed to mount windows share: software caused connection abort”

Lol it didn’t work.

I’m done. Linux is trash. Can’t even do something out of the box that windows has been doing since windows 2000.

I can get this working on Mac, windows and android. Linux has no excuses

Funny enough I’ve been googling for hours and came across half a dozen tutorials on this and none have worked I’ll let you know if this does

How do you map a network drive? I’ve literally put 8 hours of my fucking life trying to figure it out and I can’t get it to work. It’s a must have thing for me to stay in Linux.

So what you’re saying is don’t use Linux if you’re on Nvidia, got it.

It can’t even do basic shit like mount a network drive. Trash OS is trash. I adapted to Mac just fine and android just fine. This bullshit OS will never be made easy to use, that much is apparent.