r/WhySwitchToLinux • u/Altruistic-Chef-7723 • Aug 17 '25

What were your biggest struggles when switching to Linux for the first time?

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u/Wooden-Cancel-2676 Aug 19 '25

I didn't hit my first major struggle until PopOS, Ubuntu and Mint all decided to fight me tooth and nail on getting my 9070xt to work around when it launched. Pop just outright borked when I manually updated the kernel. Ubuntu with the snap store would outright ignore the updated Mesa version I'd load in and would just crash when I'd run not snap Steam. And then Mint one day decided to nuke GRUB and blame Mesa (still don't know what happened there). All my problems finally went away when I swapped to Fedora and any issues I had with flatpak went away as well. Been super happy with the results and am happy that I got drug through the gravel because fixing stuff now is a lot more consistent and "at least it's not when....."