I recently installed Mint for my first Linux and honestly it took me a few days to get it set up fully. The initial install was really quick and super easy, 90% complete in an hour. But, for example, my speakers didn’t produce sound. Four hours of trying to force drivers and all sorts of bizarre fixes, finally post on the forum for help and find out there’s a hidden volume setting in alsamixer that was set to 0.
Yeah, Linux really suffers from the 90-10 principle. You’ll spend 10% of your time getting it 90% functional… And that remaining 90% of your time will go towards the final 10% of functions.
I recently installed Mint for my first Linux and honestly it took me a few days to get it set up fully. The initial install was really quick and super easy, 90% complete in an hour. But, for example, my speakers didn’t produce sound. Four hours of trying to force drivers and all sorts of bizarre fixes, finally post on the forum for help and find out there’s a hidden volume setting in alsamixer that was set to 0.
Still better than windows.
Yeah, Linux really suffers from the 90-10 principle. You’ll spend 10% of your time getting it 90% functional… And that remaining 90% of your time will go towards the final 10% of functions.
Thats how I landed on Fedora, it just worked the most consistently