  >  I don’t game, I try but idk just feels like work.

I'm surprised by this. Valve has really made this easy these days. I switched to EndervourOS a few years back and things, for the most part, just works. 2-3 years ago the biggest hurdle was changing Proton version and 90% of the time I could play a game. For the last year (including after a reinstall and having never touched Steam settings) the only problems I've had are post an update and solved by restarting the computer.

  > pick the wrong nvidia driver and you’ll have crashes

Same thing here. The only issue I can think of in the last few years was an update where a rollback solved it. The problem was only because Endeavour (Arch based) uses beta nvidia drivers AND the newest kernels. Was a really easy fix. Just two commands to roll back kernel and driver.

  > Also Linux always hangs hard if I run it out of ram. Windows never does that.

This sounds like there might be a swap space allocation issue. Did you manually set swap or just go with the default configuration? If the OS runs out of RAM and swap (there's overcommit_memory but you probably don't want to enable it[0]) then yeah, you'll run into trouble. Not sure how Windows is handling that but there's only so much that can be done here. Luckily you can always add more swap space, if you don't want to buy more RAM. But things should never crash just because you ran out of RAM (there are exceptions, like a single program using all the RAM).

  > But sometimes I go back to windows and I am taken aback as the sheer completeness of the user experience.

You might like KDE[1]. It has a much more Windows like feel. Or Cutefish[2] for that OSX feel. It is pretty simple to make a switch (given you're comfortable with software I assume calling a few lines from the CLI doesn't scare you). Just some food for though. Personally I hate Gnome. Ugly as hell and unintuitive. I'd rather go headless than use Gnome.

[0] https://serverfault.com/questions/606185/how-does-vm-overcom...

[1] https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

[2] https://cutefish-ubuntu.github.io/

▲ paulannesley 2 days ago | parent [-]

> > I don’t game, I try but idk just feels like work. > > I'm surprised by this [...] for the most part, just works

I read that as “playing computer games feels like work” rather than “getting games running feels like work”.

	▲	godelski 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah that makes sense. Thanks! I'm not sure why your quotes got mangled. Maybe it was because when I quote I use two leading spaces? I do that because it makes text verbatim but I think the indentation just helps distinguish the quote better than the > alone. There's also this one that I always forget <https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc>