Fedora (Gnome or KDE versions) is going to be the most straightforward without a bunch of “extras” to be aware of if you’re looking for a desktop. Immutable distros have extra hoops, and anything Ubuntu based has Snap, which you should avoid like the plague.

Why?

You’re being very melodramatic about the whole thing…

It’s a computer. We want to use it under our terms. End of story.

Good find, but it’s not a kernel issue in this case. The device is recognized as “something”, and outputs audio correctly, you just need to find out where it’s getting it’s audio from, and assign a control channel through Pipewire to control the sink volume. Should be pretty easy, but will require some digging and a quick bit of learning.

If it’s stuck at max, then Pipewire isn’t controlling it. Try alsamixer as a different test, or maybe qasmixer. You’ll need to select the hardware id for the device to try and change it.

You might want to dig around keyword searches for your specific model and “Pipewire” to see if others have a config to sort it if the above works.

You need a KVM with an EDID emulator. HDMI switcher just swaps output ports, while a KVM+EDID emulates device status.

File a bug or issue with the project. I assume the desktop version does this by default because it’s not expected to have offline detection functionality.

Edit: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/10468

👍 have fun with that

You apparently don’t deal with actual end-users, so let me inform you…they absolutely fucking care.

You seem to keep skipping the part where SNAP IS 10X SLOWER.

Get lost with your lazy argument.

You’re not getting it…

A 125MB package like Firefox has up to 5 versions by default kept under the Snap system. Do this 10x across different packages, and suddenly you’re missing a lot of storage you can’t account for.

Second, SNAP IS JUST SLOW. People don’t like when it takes 5-10 seconds to launch a very simple app. Let’s not even get into the performance being absolutely horrendous when you need direct access to memory or GPU. It’s not what people want.

Last, your problem with Nvidia drivers lies with Nvidia themselves. I run a cluster of a thousand instances which never hiccup on the Nvidia server+CUDA drivers.

Desktop is a shit show, and that’s their fault. Don’t blame your misunderstanding of these two things to be the fault of the distro.

It’s relevant for a few reasons with regard to new users:

1. Snap is SLOW
2. Snap takes up a massive amount of space

Switching somebody with 256GB of storage to Ubuntu and pointing them to the Gonna software store to install whatever they want is just asking for confusion and problems.

What happened to all my disk space?

Why does it take 8 seconds for a browser to start?

These are new users who expect things to operate as they’ve known them to operate coming from Windows or MacOS. Ubuntu is just problematic to that point of view.

I’ve switched hundreds of desktop users in the past few years, and the above expectations and experience is what made me switch to Fedora.

Ubuntu is problematic at current.

Fedora (Gnome or KDE version) is what I recommend to people looking for the stock experience and a large community. I generally point people away from anything Ubuntu because of the Snap fiasco.

Weird manifesto

In the players. VLC has a setting in preferences, and mpv has a flag to disable on run.

Try disabling hardware acceleration.

Lookup the T38

No. Only if you guess the right one. That’s the problem that OP is asking about.

Instead of just throwing random preferences out there, I’ll help clarify the field of comments:

1. Thinkpads USED to be a safe choice, but Lenovo has been tainting that model line for a few years. Search and find specific models, and don’t just buy because it has the Thinkpad brand.
2. Framework is 100% ready to go. They have a Refurb store where everything is cheap, but if you find one cheaper, get it.
3. Dell had a ton of Linux ready laptops under the XPS brand not long ago. Search and find out which to make sure, but they shipped with Linux installed.
4. I hate to say it, but HP Probooks were solid and shipped with Linux also. Terrible company, but they make decent enterprise products. They’ll sell for cheap on eBay.

…no

Thanks for mentioning the actual model number.