The entire difference is the kernel. There’s a reason why Apple moved to BSD forever ago for their OS. Somebody did it better than they would have been able to from scratch. Everything above that level on up to the DE matters less as far as stability and performance goes for desktop users.

Needs to be an existing directory

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Y’all really need to get off the Bazzite thing for new users.

Fedora for gaming is great and has zero issues.

Bazzite is no better than any other distro in this respect EXCEPT that it’s immutable, and going to be a NIGHTMARE for somebody not yet familiar with how things work in a Linux system. It’s edge cases upon edge cases, and the assumption by people pushing this idiocy is that they’ll never need to know how a normal functioning Linux system works if they like it, which is an ignorant supposition.

Stop pushing this narrative to new users, you’re just making it harder on them.

This…I don’t understand what this is.

No distro managed by a package manager would be dropping files all over the place as you’re suggesting, not would it require you to interact with or even know which libraries you have installed because it’s all automatically handled by said package manager.

If you’re installing out of band packages, you’re talking about a different thing, and that’s the package maintainer’s fault, not the distro and their maintainers.

You need to add a location to mount it to as the last argument. Same command, but add a location at the end like /mnt , or another empty directory you can mount into.

Did you try disabling hardware acceleration though?

Ubuntu has specific toolchain stacks that make imaging and packaging easier when you’re running continuously deployed stacks that change frequently.

Ran thousands of servers on it for years without a hiccup. No idea what you were doing wrong there, but that’s not my experience.

Not at all. It was fine for new users. It was the mostly popular distribution for years for a reason.

Whoops, was in a flow. Good catch.

Ignore anyone claiming there is some massive performance difference between any distros. That’s some misinformed bullshit.

The main things you need to understand are the layers:

1. Kernel
2. Libraries
3. Package Manager
4. UserSpace

The Kernel layer will be largely transparent for you as a beginner. If you want bleeding edge stuff, install a “Rolling Release” distro that updates this layer much more frequently than “LTS (long term support)” releases will, as their function is to remain stable for longer periods of time.

Libraries will also be transparent to you as a new user, and even as experts, we rarely need to mess with this layer unless building something specific, which you will not need to worry about. Do not let the Chaff start talking some bullshit about how you to prefer this or that in distros blah blah …you’re a new user. Ignore that noise.

Package Manager: something to consider as you will be interacting with this. RPM, Apt/Deb and pacman are the big three, and all are very mature and stable. They all perform similar basic functions, just in different ways. You’ll have a preference in time, but any of them work well. It’s not a huge thing you need to worry about, but you’ll surely like one over another in time.

UserSpace: where all the fun stuff is. Stick with a distro that has a large community. The biggest choice in how you will interact with your machine as a desktop user is here in that you want to choose a Desktop Environment, or DE. Gnome and KDE are the big two in this arena, but there are many: Xfce, Cinnamon, Mate…etc. Id suggest starting with Gnome if you like a clean MacOS type interface, or KDE if you really like the more verbose sort of Windows experience. Both are fine choices, and you won’t have problems with either. Again, ignore everyone telling you one is better than the other…they are not. It’s a preference. Try them both, and go with one. You can easily swap later if you want, no big deal.

Lastly: don’t go off and use Bl00pyGameRzX or whatever random distro the loudest asshole in a thread is telling you to use. Again, you’re a new user, you need simple, stable, and a huge community to reference if you have issues.

I suggest Fedora for new users now after Ubuntu shat the bed and soiled their crown. After getting comfortable with things, maybe look into what the difference is between Fedora and Cachy, and if that’s of any use to you. If not, whatever, just keep using what you like. Distro hopping is for aimless people who don’t know what they’re looking for, or how to identify. Use what YOU like, and keep using it as long as you like it. Ignore the hype machine telling you otherwise. That’s the point.

Try turning on or off hardware acceleration in the settings.

No, step 4 says to run a mount command to start the process of mounting the encrypted volumenso you can copy things out of it. Like I said…ignore step 1. Only pay attention step 4.

The login password and the encrypted pasdpbrase are two different things in function. Now, maybe you have them the same value and they are the same in that way, but in the technical sense they are two different things. One logs you into your computer, the other secures the encryption on the volume. If you only used one password to login to the machine previously, then just use that same password to unlock the volume after running the mount command.

If that password doesn’t work, then you did something during your initial setup that differs, and if you don’t have the passphrase to unlock that encrypted volume, you’re not getting your stuff back.

Then run through the crypt mount steps: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=315207

NOTE: That means Step #4 ONLY. You only need to mount the thing, not change it.

Now you CHANGE THE OWNERSHIP of that folder as a showered you before:

sudo chown -R magenta user ./oldhome-backup

Then run this just in case you messed up something with file permissions on that directory previously while running whatever commands:

sudo chmod -R +r ./oldhome-backup

Confirm after running that command that the ownership of the files has changed to the new user. If they haven’t, then you something else going on.

This is some weird Cinnamon desktop BS, and I don’t have all your aettings, so I’m flying blind on that.

Forget the desktop then if you’re not sure what you’re doing. Create. A new directory under the new users homedir: mkdir ~/oldhome-backup

Then as whichever user has sudo access run: mv /home/whateveroldusersdir /home/newusersdir/oldhome-backup

Do it like this:

1. Create new user
2. sudo chown -R newusersnamehere /home/olduserhomedir

Then you’ll have access to all the old files while logged in as your newly created user.

I’d say so. If you don’t mind copying stuff over, it’s a cleaner solution.

So you renamed the username, but that’s all it probably changed. I bet your homedir is still under the old username, and your profile paths are all jacked.

Try renaming the old homedir to whatever the new username is, then check all the user settings match for that new homedir name. Change anything that refers to the “old” homedir. Make sure permissions are also set properly to the new user after moving/renaming the directory.

Another option is to just make an entirely new user and copy all your stuff over, but the above should fix things.