My next try was to test-run with several distros, including current #Kubuntu 22.04, and current #siduction which both failed to properly load.

A pretty sad state, one must say. Its just your basic i5 iGPU + NVidia RTX 3050 setup.

But the open source drivers (noveau, what an un-easy name .. nivea? nevuao? unspellable!) didnt work at all, and the proprietary seem not to be loaded during Live USB sessions.

Sadly, no dice for Debian / Ubuntu.

2/n

Third distro I tested - which I never managed to do before, but always wanted to - is #manjaro .. which worked like a charm!

I thoroughly tested the live session and then decided to install it - albeit the translations of the manual partition tool are easy to misunderstand. So I've installed it all in a small partition which originally was meant to be for the OS only. Going to move the home directory to the dedicated partition in the nearby future.

3/n

It works now. But I ran into the same - or similar - issue as before: No working GUI session with the NVidia drivers.

But the fix was done much quicker than anything else - compared to the old and "established" Debian / Ubuntu distros - thanks to both the Arch and Manjaro Linux wikis being SO GOOD. PERIOD.

What took me years in my "tried and true" distros to figure out, took me less than 2 hours with #arch #manjaro linux. #wtf #documentationftw

4/n

Also, already did a test run with OBS 29 flatpak - works as expected. Also automatically used NVenc - which was the sole reason I got myself the GPU.

Yes, streaming and maybe light video editing / fx.

5/n