In a world where nothing seems to work anymore, especially anything related to tech and/or customer service, getting on my laptop running Linux Mint just feels like a breath of fresh air. And that goes for just about any distro. It’s nice to have something that works as it should and doesn’t seem to go out of its way to cause frustration and irritation.
(P.S. Loblaw’s/PC Express suck ass. Canadians will know what I’m talking about).
I had the opposite experience recently
I was into Linux back then when Valve launched TF2 for Linux (this was in 2013) in the end I broke Linux Mint (I don’t know how but it stopped loading) so I said Fuck it and returned to Windows, after all I wanted to play all games, not only TF2
Recently I wanted to return to Linux since gaming is finally a thing and I had to constantly fix stuff…
-First of all If I changed between windows and linux, the motherboard clock was constantly changing. I had to fix it
-KeepassXC (the browser extension) could not connect with KeepassXC for some reason their windows counterparts worked flawlessly
-KDE somehow look uglier and less customizable than the KDE from 10 years ago
-The system tray kinda sucks
-Having the programs to run at system start up does not always works by changing the settings (you have to put a shortcut in a special folder)
-I never managed to make KDE connect to work properly(I connected my phone and Linux, but I never managed to receive the phone notifications on the PC)
-The OS was asking me to restart after every boot almost daily because it got updated (back then Linux asking for a reboot was a rare sight)
-and the cherry on top, one day the software stopped working and I did nothing weird. I could not use KeepassXC, nor steam, nor blender, etc… I asked for help first here and then on the official OS forums and nobody could find a fix other than “delete everything and reinstall the OS”. Is something I could do, but is a pain in the ass. I’ll have to fix everything that I already fixed again, I’ll start receiving security emails because someone logged into my accounts (yeah, me, from linux), I’ll have to configure everything again, etc…
I’ll like to get rid of windows for ever, but is not easy
I had a somewhat similar issue on my work laptop a short while ago, when I installed a program, which included a bugged XML settings file, then ran system update. When the updater tried to rebuild some caches (related to ie. icons, MIME etc.), some programs which use these caches simply stopped working. Reinstalling all packages with apt was the only thing that helped, to this day I do not even know all of the parts of my system that were broken.
But this was one of these issues that happen once per 5 years, and leave you scratching your head and asking “what the hell is going on here?”. The difference from Windows is that in Linux, you can have a high understanding of system’s internal modular components (at the cost of time needed to learn it), and regular system issues can be identified after a few minutes of Googling.
The KeepassXC-browser stuff is most likely from when Ubuntu started pushing snaps. For a while this was broken, and even if you installed Firefox from a PPA instead it still wouldn’t work due to a default AppArmor policy blocking the connection.
Would be a good guess, but Gordon mentioned that in his latest try, he installed Arch-based EndeavourOS instead of Mint.
Yeah, is the OS I installed this time. Mint did not did that, at least 10 years ago, but I wanted to try a different distro.
So, is not a trend for all distros? Maybe I’ll try a different one next time. I want to stay as close to Arch as possible (but I’m scared of Arch itself) because SteamOS is based on Arch so maybe I’ll install Manjaro next
If you want more details
https://kbin.social/m/linux/t/325780/Stuff-stopped-working
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/some-software-stopped-working/44395
I still have it installed (I’m pissed/frustrated and still have not made the reinstall), I check from time to time if an update fix it, but no luck to this day
I looked through the posts.
Explanation of the issue: the userspace implementation of OpenGL for Xorg, called GLX,does not work, maybe it isn’t loaded. From what I see, /usr/lib/nvidia/xorg/libglx.so is no longer included in nvidia-utils package, the new name for it is probably libglxserver_nvidia.so
Did you have any lines with (EE) in Xorg.0.log?
Do you see if this log says, if libglxserver_nvidia.so was loaded correctly?
Wouldn’t hurt to check, if nvidia kernel module is loaded: lsmod | grep nvidia
Maybe reinstallation of nvidia-utils package could help, although I am pretty sure this was done already when you removed and added nVidia driver again.
Feel free to PM me, whenever you give it another go, even if it’s half a year from now :) I’ll do my best to provide you some advice.
(‘nv’ is an old driver for old nVidia cards, you shouldn’t look in that direction, it’s normal that it doesn’t load, if nvidia driver does)