Even without years of experience, gimp is unintuitive, the affinity suite is so much easier to use

The boot entry was indeed messed up! Managed to fix it from a live usb

This ended up being the issue! Booted up a live USB, mounted the disk and ran

sudo efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --label “Fedora” --loader ‘\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi’

After rebooting it worked again!

Now to never plug a windows drive into that PC again…

Nope, there is only one sata slot. It should be there, but at this point nothing surprises me anymore. I’m just as confused as you are

I can’t select Linux in the boot options, that’s the problem

Is the boot record stored on the drive or on the laptop? If the former, it should be okay but I’ll check regardless. If the latter, maybe it got wiped by Windows?

Yeah that’s something I can try. I suspect that it is indeed Windows that’s causing issues, but not quite sure how yet. I’ll disable fast startup and see if it makes a difference

The drive is fine, as I can boot from it from my desktop. I’m gonna try booting from a liveusb, maybe it can tell me more

Fair enough, although I don’t really remember having an issue with linux either, atleast for the last couple of years. Apart from getting my nvidia gpu to work properly on my laptop, but that’s jank on windows aswell. Not everyone has issues on either, but I use windows at work and fedora at home and I notice way more jank on windows personally

Most people are so used to the windows bullshit that they don’t even recognise it anymore, Linux (especially fedora) has been much more stable for me.

Also, the problem is always nvidia

You can’t just scale game prices linearly with inflation, sure costs of development have increased, not just because of inflation but also because games are much more complex now. But the gaming market has grown a lot and games are infinitely reproducible so that hugely increases profits.

I don’t know how much we should pay for games, but just comparing it to inflation is useless

Inkscape sure, but gimp is no comparison for photo. Also Publisher is really good

Same, I just really want the automatic playlists feature, but no other music players that look nice on gnome seem to have that. Pretty much all newish players are so minimal

That feels like a wild overgeneralisation although I’m also a Linux loving nerd who would like to move to Japan

What does Japan have to do with this?

It also depends a lot on the height of your car, my car is very low and the amount of times I get blinded is considerably higher than in a higher car.

Also as a sidenote, low beams on new cars seem to be just as bright as the high beams. Turning on the high beams just raises the projection, whereas it used to actually increase the brightness aswell

Im not sure if you’ve actually seen bright German LED headlights, because they are otherworldly. Older lights, even bright Xenon lights are no match for those blinding LEDs

The brightness is absolutely a problem, it doesn’t matter how well they are adjusted, when the car hits a bump or comes over a crest, it’s going to blind oncoming traffic

wayland

That’s based on Firefox…