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1. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 16-Jul-2018 11:56:00 EDT deutrino

   Welp, I installed #Manjaro last night and the box that was so unstable under #LinuxMint 18/19 is fine. Granted, I'm now doing things like "changing the theme so the window resize handles aren't 1 pixel wide" and "wondering wtf people use instead of 'ifconfig'" - it's been almost 20 years since I used a non-Debian based distro on the desktop... but that's fine. I'm at the point where I want total customization *and* for things to Just Work. There are tradeoffs.

   1. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 16-Jul-2018 11:59:14 EDT deutrino

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      I'm suspicious that the noveau video driver was the source of the crashes on Mint; I seem to recall this being a problem (on my bog-standard cheap nvidia card) as far back as Mint 17. Not sure why Manjaro could get through an install to the point where I could load nvidia drivers and Mint couldn't, if this is the problem, but I don't have the time, energy, or desire to diagnose and report it. This is where things Just Working handily takes precedence.