Also the package manager GUI lags if you search, kinda amateur. Also this is gnome again but why is there a calendar that I can sync google calendar into if I then cannot click on any days to view my events/appointments... Also if they have to subsidize codecs why not just install VLC as default which can play anything.

Yea heard they're working on that in Rust, pretty nice hopefully it comes out soon.

I ended up going with this. Trying it out on my older laptop, thinkpad t460. To be fair already 1.: Couldn't play mkv file with the default video player, had to get VLC and 2.: When you minimize/maximize tabs it does a weird flicker in the top left corner which is a known bug related to some gnome animation.

This is kind of just funny to me, but really these imperfections are very obvious when you install any kind of linux, some don't have basic video codecs installed. I can get around and fix all of the issues, it's just not a good user experience.

I ended up going with this. Trying it out on my older laptop, thinkpad t460. To be fair already 1.: Couldn't play mkv file with the default video player, had to get VLC and 2.: When you minimize/maximize tabs it does a weird flicker in the top left corner which is a known bug related to some gnome animation.

This is kind of just funny to me, but really these imperfections are very obvious when you install any kind of linux, some don't have basic video codecs installed. I can get around and fix all of the issues, it's just not a good user experience.

Why are you coping. Yes you can play a lot of games, and a lot of times you cant or you have to mess around for hours to get one working. It's far from plug and play, its a bunch of open source projects.

That aint true but okay

My experience with linux is that its super good for the basic stuff but as soon as you want to do something more complex that you do on windows you can run into weird issues where you end up spending hours looking through config files. Just keep using them on servers imo until Google or someone else decides to make something that works well.

Can you recommend one that doesn't have these issues? I mean gaming is off on all but most have trouble with basic functions like screen splitting. I've tried mint and ubuntu, both look like something out of 2014.

I would but they look pretty bad, break in weird ways and you cant game. Been the issue for forever.