I too am a warrior and I raise my battleaxe to you!

I’ve been using EndeavourOS for the last 18 months, before that I spent about 9 years on Tumbleweed and before that, I was a inveterate distro hopper. Having spent so long rolling, there’s no way I could go back to fixed.

I think it’s amazing that humans, who like to give cuddles and fusses, evolved on a planet where almost everything likes cuddles and fusses.

That’s one of them, another is EndeavourOS which is my distro of choice.

You can add a package to your ignore list, although that is not recommended for the longer term.

In the private sector, I once was asked to come up with 12 uses for a kettle. I said make 12 cups of coffee. I didn’t get the job.

I have no rituals, but I do have an anti-static band.

That looks like frogs porn to me

No, but then I have quite an old graphics card. Even for my card, the open source drivers are recommended.

It’s more about their practices, the same for Microsoft and Google. I still have my trusty Nokia 8110 4G but I know it’s going to die one day and then I’ll have to choose between Google and Apple :(

But you’re using a Mac and my conscience won’t allow that!

…Extend

You could say they got ahead of the game.

On EndeavourOS, you just have to run nvidia-inst. Mint has the driver manager, and other distros have ways of handling it. For your card, you’ll want the Nvidia Open driver if it doesn’t do it automatically.

TLDR: These days it’s easy.

Out of date Nvidia drivers was the main reason I moved from Tumbleweed to EndeavourOS, at the time they were a couple of generations behind and didn’t even have explicit sync.

Linux Journey will take you through the basics.

She is getting her masters in nursing online so it def needs to be able to accommodate that

Is there any specialist software she needs, or is it browser based?

White Y-Fronts

Some are very different to each other, Arch and Debian where the former is at the bleeding edge of software and the later is the most conservative distro out there. Some are very similar, Ubuntu and Kubuntu where they are the same distro with a different desktop environment and default software.

I rarely see any references to MX in Linux forums

That could be a testament to it’s reliability.