Update: installing Nobara which looks slick and doesn’t have the resolution issue judging from the live disk. Consider this ‘solved’, thanks comrades n n.

I know nothing, someone gave me a script to rename files automatically yesterday and it took me longer than it took them to write it to figure out I needed python and to make a .py of it. I did figure it out, it’s not their fault I know nothing, but that’s my tech savvy. None.

I’ve learned desktop environments can be swapped on Linux, tested several on PopOS and I liked (in order) KDE, Cinnamon, Mate, the rest not at all, so if a distro has any fancy extras for their environment those are the ones I like but I’ve already learned you can swap if there’s no distro specific extras or whatever.

I mainly plan on playing minecraft and then adding normal things I do day to day to see if I can ease myself into Linux via dual boot over time. Only usual day program I don’t immediately see an alternative to is MusicBee which I use not for music but because it handles podcast RSS in a nice orderly fashion, will download to specified folders and have them in the app as well.

“Stick with PopOS” is a fine answer, I’m asking cause someone insinuated I made the wrong call in the mega and also I can’t get it to let me pick the display resolution I have in windows - I may have done it wrong but I tried manually adding to xrandr and it seems to have just set it to 1080p instead when I tried to add 2160p 60hz where it only shows up to 30. Iunno.

It may just not be an option of the Linux AMD driver for my hardware or something. Anyway I spent 5 hours trying to fix it and give up, I want at least part of my weekend to not be clawing at a monolith of info I don’t understand trying to make something work the way I think it should, lol.

I can prolly just get used to 1080p, it’s only an issue at all for the browser really, text oddly big, feels weird.