Ignore everyone here saying fix Ubuntu and try Fedora Kinode (or Silverblue). Bazzite is probably great too if you are gaming but I haven’t tried it.

I finally tried Fedora Kinode after years of Ubuntu (and related distros) and I genuinely wish I had tried it sooner. Everything just works. I cannot reccomend it enough. It’s what I always wanted Linux to be.

I’ve actually tried Zorin and was really impressed! My favorite use of GNOME I’ve seen for sure. Though it’s technically Ubuntu based (which is Debian based).

Agreed on all counts! I really can’t express enough how impressed I am.

requires a fair bit of post-installation configuration

This is crazy to me because of all the distros I’ve tested over the years Fedora Kinote is by FAR the one I’ve had to do the least amount of tweaking with. It’s almost boring how “just works” it is. It’s honestly changed my perspective of what a distro can be.

It works with Fedora, Windows and Macintosh. It worked with Ubuntu until a month ago. It doesn’t work with a fresh install of Ubuntu with default settings.

There, now you have all the same information I have.

It worked perfectly with Ubuntu until recently. It worked perfectly with Windows and Macintosh. It worked perfectly with Fedora.

It didn’t work with a fresh install of Ubuntu and several other distros in the same family.

Now I know what you’re about to say- you’re about to say it could have worked if I had only X Y or Z. But that’s not my point.

My point is that newbies don’t want to troubleshoot everything.

I have not but it was actually on my list of distros to try if Fedora didn’t work out. I should give it a look.

idk I have only needed the terminal once, with Ubuntu/Gnome it was a daily occurrence.

It’s not a RAM problem lmao it rarely crashed on Windows and it’s not crashed with Fedora either.

Any modern distro.

I don’t suppose you could give the name of a distro that achieves full functionality purely in the GUI?

In your opinion what makes a terminal program “more useful” than a GUI program with the exact same functionality? Genuinely curious because it’s a perspective I cannot wrap my brain around lol

So many comments here saying you don’t need the terminal for full functionality… What Distro are you people using??? How do you install programs not in the “software center” and how do you edit config files? How do you configure a network share? I don’t really think you guys are thinking this through.

For any use-cases beyond a very limited chromebook-like functionality, Linux is absolutely not fully usable without access to the terminal.

Fascinating, you don’t have automatic login enabled? And I assume this is at the pre-login prompt?

Auto decrypt with TPM sounds fine to me but I have no idea what TPM is as this is my first PC with it.

Thanks for the great response though I’ll look into these

I don’t think so, they are both intel macs over 10 years old and Macs didn’t start adding TPM until 2017. On Mac, when you check the box to encrypt the drive during install you’re prompted for an encryption password which you never need to use again unless you remove the drive and put it into another mac (or in my case add a second hard drive and use the original as “extra” storage).

I think this is what I might have to do as I really don’t want to go back to Windows. I don’t suppose if you know if there is a way to lock the drive upon logging out? Or do I need to do a full shutdown every time.

Yeah I don’t need a silver bullet I’m not storing highly sensitive data, I just mistakenly assumed this would be easier.

I don’t suppose you know of a tutorial to get this set up? Google turned up nothing.

as long as you don’t set a drive encryption password to be entered at BIOS load before the OS loads, which is what you’ve done.

MacOS does ask for a different password during setup, which you never have to use again unless you want to access the drive on a different PC.

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