You could always Dremel it out. First try black electrical tape.

I’ve had a great experience as a Linux noob using Garuda. It comes with an Nvidia version and has worked great out of the box.

After I left Bazzite as “my first Linux” I landed on Garuda. It is Arch based, is gaming and performance focused, comes with different desktop environment options, has pacman and works well with pamac, and has been noob friendly.

No ragrets.

Garuda has been easy and stable for me. It’s gaming and performance focused though, so how well that works for you could depend on your laptop.

On the one hand, I feel your pain, on the other hand… You could have just reinstalled Garuda and chosen a password using characters that exist on a US keyboard to get it all set up before switching your keyboard layout to the one you want and then updating the password.

Sorry the journey has been so rough.

I mentioned it because a lot of people already have a card they need to accommodate, not to try and convince you.

I mean … it’s not required. So, good for you, I guess.

After I left Bazzite I switched to Garuda, it is also gaming and performance focused, works with Nvidia, and has been super easy as a beginner.

It may be worth a look.

I keep looking for something better, and yes it has some limitations, but the free online version of SketchUp is the easiest and most intuitive 3d design program I have ever used and I keep coming back to it.

You need to set up a free Trimble account to use it, don’t let that stop you from giving it a try

Keep your eye open for opportunities to advocate for Linux in the workplace, change will come.

Windows said they were going to force AI into the OS, so I left.

I installed Bazzite, it was easy and just worked, but I decided I didn’t like immutability. So I installed Garuda, and it was also easy and just worked, even with an Nvidia card.

So now I’m on Linux and run a bunch of windows games with proton and they also work.

After I left Bazzite i switched to Garuda, which is also gaming and performance focused. I also chose the xfce option, which has been great.

If your are considering switching, give Garuda a look. I’m also on a gigabyte board with an Nvidia card.

Foundry has so many game systems, even systems like custom system builder, which let you make your own.

If all you want is spreadsheets, why not use shared Google docs or something?

As you are researching, take a look at Garuda. It is beginner friendly, gaming and performance focused, has good helper apps, and is Arch based so it is getting frequent updates.

I’ve been using it as a beginner for over a year and it has been capable, stable, and easy.

If you are used to steam os, also check out Bazzite, it is designed to be a similar experience.

I use Garuda, it’s Arch and is just as easy as Bazzite.

I use Garuda. Yes, it’s Arch based, but it’s also all set up for gaming and newbie friendly. I started on Bazzite, then switched to Garuda, it’s just as easy.

Yes, Bazzite was my first. Immutability sounds great in theory but it wouldn’t let me change my login screen background and wouldn’t explain why. I bricked my drive permissions trying to get access and had to reformat.

That got me looking for alternatives and I learned about immutability and found Garuda, which let me do whatever I wanted, was also gaming focused, and has great helper applications.

I’ve used both Bazzite and Garuda. Both have an Nvidia install, both are gamer focused, and both have been easy.

Bazzite was immutable, which I ended up not liking.

I tried Bazzite first and switched to Garuda after. Both were easy and good for gaming.

Garuda is a gaming focused Arch distro. Super easy and works great. It’s what I switched to after Bazzite.