Take the money and tell him to fuck off. He’s a con artist. Have him lose at his own game.

I bought it before the coup and threats to my country! 😂

Funny enough, it looks my laptop manufacturer now officially supports Bazzite! Very cool.

I really appreciate that. I really do.

Considering how the EU is now looking to make a distro… based on Fedora… I’m more comfortable with the idea.

And you are right, FOSS projects are a collaboration, and I think it’s worth for me to explore the best option for me, rather than what I feel might be the best option.

That said, I’m backing up my Home folder, I’ve got memtest loaded on a flash drive ready to run, and I’ll be prepping Fedora 41 to install once that’s all done :)

Do your issues appear on a fresh install?

Before, during, and after a fresh install, depending on the day I’ve tried! LOL

I’m going to do a proper memtest as others have suggested. Then I may just start fresh again, perhaps with another distro. Thank god it’s Friday, so I’ve got a few days to sort this out. haha

conflating big American tech firms that steal your data with big America tech firms that make FOSS is just silly.

For sure. But also seeing Americans as friends and allies… and now we (Canada and the rest of the world, but not Russia) are being attacked with threats on our sovereignty, just doesn’t seem normal anymore.

Nothing that used to be logical can be taken as such now. An American tech that makes FOSS is still an American tech. And I hate even having to say that, because I would have gladly supported American FOSS just a few months ago.

Thanks. I’ve made the bootable memtest USB drive, and will test later.

I had tried several, actually. But Ubuntu was installed through an external SSD.

To create the bootable drive, I’ve tried Rufus, Ventoy, and Etcher. I believe Etcher was the last one, and the one that got me to actually install Ubuntu.

Could be an issue with Secure Boot in BIOS.

Secure Boot and Bitlocker were turned off before I installed anything, as I know these could be issues. I haven’t turned either back on, but will once I get this to be stable.

Thank you.

Just run the update command again in the GUI or terminal. If it doesn’t work, we’ll have to dig into apt with verbose logs but I haven’t had apt break on me for over a decade unless I deleted something I shouldn’t have.

Nothing needed to be updated. One package was “deferred”, and that was the “ubuntu-drivers-common”.

Is Firefox installed as a snap/flatpak? That only happens with me occasionally when I installed flatpaks, they’re just slower. Canonical can be a real arse about this stuff, they might switch packages to snaps without telling you and you might only come to know about it once you dig deeper.

Default Firefox, and I just checked, and it’s listed as Snap package.

All of these issues seem to related to your storage medium. Is the SSD OK? Open up the process monitor, sort by ascending order of disk writes/reads and open your applications one by one to see which one of them is the culprit.

Full chkdsk was performed before installing Linux on my SSD. In the Western Digital utility (in Windows), everything tested OK, too. No issues in the S.M.A.R.T. logs, either.

Rebooting suddenly is not normal. Unfortunately, you’ll have to go through logs for this one. Simple ones are dmesg and journalctl, we can dig deeper into them if you want to.

I don’t know if it actually rebooted, or if it just closed everything and returned on the login screen. I wasn’t home when it happened, I just came back to that :(

But that was days ago. And it hasn’t happened since.

I’ll be running a proper memtest shortly, and will post an update once that’s done.

Ah, cool! I have heard of Bazzite.

Thank you! I’m going to do a proper memtest once I’m off work, and will take it from there.

Off the top of my head, issues with installing. Like, it would say that installation is complete, I go to reboot, and it’s like it did nothing. No partitions were created, no boot changes. Then it would load without audio or issues with the fingerprint reader…

It is listed on the Framework site as being community supported, but Fedora and Ubuntu are officially supported by Framework.

TBH now that I think about it, I ran in to more issues with Ubuntu than just simply using Debian.

That seems to be the consensus from reading the other comments!

Distrowatch lists it as discontinued: https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=aurora

Use packages installed from the standard repo and supported by the security team.

Can you be more specific? Does this mean use snap packages? Debian packages? Flatpak (which isn’t even officially supported without installing some extra packages to begin with)?

Snap packages seem to be hated for their instability, so it could be related to that.

Honestly, not knowing enough about how linux distros are funded is part of it.

And the second part is more “If I’m going to commit, I might as well start off with something I can live with through whatever geopolitical wars we have to endure.” My preference is to remove as much American influence from my life as possible, including the OS and software I use.

This is the only reason why I’m moving away from Windows, because it’s served me well.

This in insightful! What are other distros using for their software store? Flatpak or native Debian packages (or both)?

Can you explain? I mean, anything is better than a Microsoft OS, tbh.

But I’d rather avoid American-based distros if I can.

Shit. Well, if I have to, I have to.

But this doesn’t explain why it would affect only Linux (assuming bad RAM). That’s the sort of thing that would cause Windows to go into a frenzy, and I simply don’t have that experience with BSOD or crashes like that.

Some devices need drivers that only work with Windows. The second computer runs those under Windows 11. In contrast we have to babysit that machine constantly, USB connections are unreliable, things fail randomly. When we have to update, the world comes to a halt.

That was my experience before Windows 10. But 11 has been very stable.

But, I’m hoping to get the same from Linux.