speaking of tech issues that haunt, by the way, i learned a valuable lesson. just because one distro works on one machine really well doesn’t mean it works across all machines really well.

fedora kinoite/bazzite plays nice with my system. it uses the B650-E chipset. bazzite also plays nice with one of my housemates’ systems. they use the B650 chipset. my other housemate, however, has a motherboard with an X870E chipset.

why is the chipset important, you might ask? it’s because it’s the only detail i can think of that might have any relevancy as to what i’ll say next, since their system is just about identical to mine otherwise, save for them having a better graphics card in the same line (I have an AMD 7900 GRE, they have a 7900 XTX.)

for their system, fedora has been a nightmare which they’ve rightfully described as “the arkham asylum OS”. nothing worked properly. disk transfers within the same drive were going at 4 MB/s. they had weird crashes. the screen would sometimes go completely black when playing games, yet everything still functions fine otherwise. they had files appear to transfer, but also not, and then when they deleted one copy it deleted both copies. notifications would arbitrarily stop working, and then start working again. a lot of settings failed to persist, and a few of them outright didn’t work from the start. i had to literally open up the command line and manually edit system settings so that they’d actually persist after a restart.

they’re now on a different OS (manjaro), on a different desktop environment (XFCE), not on an immutable filesystem. so far, in just the little bit of time they’re on it so far, it seems like it’s working way better for them.