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by enopod_ 139 days ago
Ah the good old days. Investing an entire weekend to make your pci soundblaster card work. Nowadays you just install an iso from a thumb drive, it takes 30 mins and everything works out of the box. So boring!
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Pity that I am yet to have that boring experience on laptops, even if sold with Linux pre-installed, the fun continues.
Is there a consensus on the best ‘boring’ distro nowadays?

It’s been ~15 years since I last installed linux (Linux Mint on a netbook that couldn’t run the pre-installed Win7), and am now curious about repurposing a gaming PC for software development.

Fedora, maybe?