Mint and Ubuntu are easy to setup, and will generally work well out of the box, so great recommendations for people who have to ask.
Personally I use Manjaro, which also works out of the box, and I like the rolling release scheme, my wife uses Debian and both work great for games.
My wife had some initial problems with Debian and PipeWire sound system but it works fine now, and in fairness she is a musician and uses some weird audiosystem that can record 8/16 channels. So I bet "normal" systems wouldn't have noticed any problems.
I still use pulse audio because I'm lazy, and if it works don't fix it.
They're simple to get into for anyone with an introductory interest in Linux, although I haven't liked Ubuntu in ages. My Mint setup took a bit of effort but it does game pretty well. Fedora could be a good recommendation too, I liked that when I tried it out. There's some gaming focused distros like Bazzite or Nobara, but I feel like I can get a "normal" distro working to a similar state for games, and I don't have to hope that a small team doesn't fold and my distro loses updates support.
I'm trying out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed this week, wanna see if it's a good alternative to Fedora.
I don't dare try Arch yet, and thus I also wouldn't recommend it to any new user.
I switched to Tumbleweed from Mint a few months ago (having toyed with many distros over the years, and recently Nobara and Manjaro).
I like Tumbleweed - it's a good mix of up to date packages, system stability (so far, I accept rolling release is inherently always going to be risky) and a good ecosystem. I find it very user friendly thanks to Yast, but with lots of freedom for power use.
I also like that it's a an offshoot of a European Linux company rather than a big tech company like IBM. I'm not a fan of the direction redhat has taken and the impact some of its priorities seem to have on Fedora. I'm sure SuSE impacts a lot on OpenSuSE but of the big enterprise Linux ecosystems I currently prefer it over Ubuntu and Redhat.
Perfect black is the best thing for movies, especially dark ones. Of all the content I’d want to see on OLED, movies are near the top. No way I’d massively downgrade to an IPS LCD for movies.
LG B6 w/ over 12k hours on it, probably 6k hours of just movies. Completely spoiled me, I can’t switch back.
I can't comment on Linux, but other than poor support for HDR I don't see what would be different on Linux at this point.
Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED. 34" ultra wide
Monitor
Yes, this monitor plus my living room TV plus VR headset. Things were unreliable and buggy until I sent it into Samsung for repair and it works well now. The software on the monitor (lol) is silly though. Don't use it, don't agree to their EULA.
My issue with Samsung is they required me to ship the monitor to them for repair instead of sending someone to my home. It's thin ultra wide and curved and I was scared it would get damaged in shipping. They would have done it in home for a TV, but refused to do the same for this very large monitor 😓
Even SDR games look great on it. Deep dark blacks, rich colors, and incredible pixel response times make games more enjoyable for me. And for 21:9 ratio movies and tv shows omg.
That depends what games you plan to boot up. Are they the 100+GB Legendary Edition types with all the DLCs, or are they <15GB indies? If you think it could be the former now or in the future, I wouldn't get less than 512GB (also, keep in mind that games are only getting bigger). You'll run out of storage on the 256 faster than you think, either way, and if you're trying to save money, there's usually deep discounts around Christmas.
I always recommend Crucial drives, as they have been solid choices for me (I have an older MX100 that's still going strong 10 years later). What kind of interface do you have? SATA? NVME?
I purchased both the 7900xtx and a 4090. Kept the 7900xtx. Absolutely adore this card. Being a Linux nerd made it a no brainer, but the performance vs price ratio wasn’t there.
Light flashes and fans move for a fraction of the second but isn't that normal? I always do that when I want to quickly discharge caps and swap some components without worrying about shorting something.
Depends on how long or possibly how many fans. My PC won't spin any fans for example, just turn on lights.
My instructors always said that wierd ass issues are usually power supplies, if you don't have another one you could test with then I would buy one from somewhere with a good return policy
You can probably do a "paper clip" test to help you confirm its the PSU and nothing else. Basically removing the PSU and connecting a paperclip to specific pins on the PSU to act like an "ON" button.
But based on the symptoms you've indicated, it does sound like a PSU problem. Nollij's idea of buying another PSU that would allow you to return it sounds like another good solution/test.
Fire hazard being messing something up by tinkering with the PSU. It's not worth it over something that can be replaced for so little money. And I think it's just more about swap out the most likely failing component (the PSU) and see if the problem goes away. If it doesn't then you know it wasn't the PSU.
dsidevice.domain_not_set.invalid is the name on the certificate. That's not the name of a real website. This means that something else is making that certificate.
If you Google that name, you'll see that it's used when some Internet routers lose their connection and they hijack the https connection to give you an error page. Since it's an https connection, and it's not a valid certificate you get the error.
I think I've seen that in the past (a long time ago) with some realtek setting where it plays your mic back to you (and since it's part of the sound card settings it happens everywhere regardless of what you have open).
I'd play around with in the realtek control panel.
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