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The only difference between Debian based distros and Arch is certainly the drivers date. What if you try the experimental Ubuntu 22.04 distro? It should come stable after some weeks at the moment, try it here. It should be very close to Arch based distributions. https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/

This is completely normal, what probably doesn't work is the graphics driver. Press CTRL+ALT+F5 and check if you have a shell there. Also try to run the distribution by modifying the kernel boot options, remove "quiet" and "splash" by pressing E in the grub boot menu entry

Possible with running a chroot inside it, there are some apps avaiable for that purpose, but unlikely if you mean running a native linux distribution which is not running android underlying

Ok, now I get it I don't use Manjaro since ages, and I am not entirely sure about what they mean by nvidia-prime, can you open the NVIDIA control panel? Do you see this? Also, that driver looks VERY outdated for a 9xx GPU. Anyway, before connecting the external monitor, try that on the laptop monitor first

hardware specs? probably you got an nvidia running nouveau

NVIDIA support is NOT bad, it just requires you to install non-free drivers which need to be installed afterwards, as for the software support, NVIDIA is just a bit behind when speaking about Optimus support, GSYNC/Freesync (not anymore in the future releases) and Wayland support (still, not anymore in future releases) AMD support on the other hand, is all open source and then integrated in the kernel and there is no need to fuss with anything at all

If you are downloading a .tar.gz (which one of those which support the executable bit inside) with an executable inside, it's a really strange circumstance To be functional it must be statically linked and the ABI must be compatible, otherwise using it on other or older distros will just break I'm just saying that Linux distributions are based on package managers and containment systems apps (snap, flatpaks, appimages) and just the fact you are doing something else is a non-standard thing, and even if this is the case, there are still other prompts as I said before And even not considering SELinux, which anyway is meant for very very specific purposes, Apparmor is the default on Debian based distributions (Selinux is on red-hat based ones)

Actually is not the truth Most desktop environments actually warn you before running an .sh script or another program, first you must mark them as an executable, gnome by default opens them with a text editor, etc and KDE warns you are running a program Also when running .exe from wine you are prompted to make it executable And most of the software is supposed to be downloaded and installed via the package management system, which basically is always secure and there would be no need to more security measures If only people would understand that and think about maintain packages instead of crappy other methods (yes VMWare, I'm talking about your "windows-like" installer)

Doesn't look happy Is secure boot disabled? You may need to re-create the EFI entry manually, even through windows with some utilities Have you tried rebooting windows in safe mode, then choosing "boot to another device" or something similar, an entire boot selection should appear

20.04 I have also an issue with the keyboard touchpad sensitivity (the original microsoft one) which by time to time requires to be re-plugged Mind that I update the graphics drivers and xorg to the cutting edge releases

I use a surface go 2 with Linux too, while I can confirm that gestures work better on Wayland (which on an intel GPU is not a bad thing) I can move firefox with one finger. Also the 3rd party on screen keyboard works nicely The only things I have noticed are gestures with more than 2 fingers do not work I have to say I am running a custom kernel, which I would recommend install (https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface) But the main issue here is you are using AnyDesk, which does't care if you install drivers for a real touchscreen devices, because anydesk is another thing TL;DR you should try to change program, try TeamViewer Other crazy alternatives would be: VNC or RDP (xrdp)

Actually this also happens on macos too, but there is not a package manager with dependency management like on Linux, so most of the programs are pretty much all bundled with the required libraries (the downside is that programs are bigger) Linux shares the libraries with all the programs on the computer, if you notice when you download things from apt you just download the executable that is then placed on the /usr/bin folder (assuming you already have another program that uses the same libraries, otherwise they are installed) Yeah it's cool, and there also is a launcher for desktop integration, which basically makes it very similar to MacOS https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

Actually if you extract those packages you pretty much see the logic behind it, as it is an Unix-Based operating systems, pkg files is pretty much something that it brings up from BSD's In Linux the closest things are .appimages, followed by .snaps and .flatpaks It is just not widely used

Try to do an offline install without the network

Actually your reasoning is why everyone just misunderstoods each other without getting into a point. You are not different from them and this obviously ends up in the usual rant, it's something that is being pushed by both sides because one is obviously just biased and the other do not have knowledge enough to explain properly, and is a linux fanboy without actual understanding Everything has been explained plently, at least I did, people just do not have asked for questions, including you We are not fussing about getting things easier for the user, at least me, this is something that should not happen in the first place, and getting a warning for something a dumb package does it's not the solution and not even complies in most of linux software guidelines

"you're staying in 1-3%" You say that like you are arguing with someone and Linux is my wife or my entire reason for a living. Does it make you mad that someone has different opinions from yours probably because you do not even understand what is means? If a package follows the debian guidelines (the one you find on the Debian repository, no on ppa's or other websites) there is absolutely no need to do that, I can easily create a debian package that deletes your entire system and making it avaiable to everyone, by putting it on some shady website, then it is the user responsibility to do harm to their system. Reminder that debian packages can run scripts and do all sort of things. The entire progamming guidelines on software in linux (KISS, etc) does not even consider hacky workarounds like that, every software must be avaiable in the official repositories, without it probably it would end up like a mess, and at this point it would be just more convenient to stick in Windows. Probably if someone can't get their package accepted to the official repositories, either they should just use .snaps or .flatpaks which are already in a protected environment The ideal solution would just be to hire more package maintainers and developers and put everything in the official Debian/Ubuntu repository

Obviously, yes. There are a lot of Linux applications on sd cards, but most of them don't change data very often, on the other hand an entire desktop distribution is not recommended since as others already said will wear the card quickly On my surface I bought a 128GB class 10 and it runs decently, but still the ideal would be to move the /home and /tmp directories outside the sd card to minimize writing on it

Wait I don't understand what driver are you using Show us the output of lsmod

First of all, that is not a port that can be used, that range is used by the operating system for opening connection, you can try any number before 49151 Second, what program are you using that is listening to that port ?

If you are on Windows you need to mount the EFI partition first with diskpart, assign a letter then go with the terminal using administrative privileges, on Linux you can go with just a file manager into /boot/efi (which is an automatic mount in most distros)

Looks like to me you are using a custom kernel, and not the default Pop!OS one. That is not compatible with the nvidia drivers, just show us all the kernels you have installed dpkg -l | grep linux-

inside the EFI partition, just find for all the *.efi files, the one that is called grubx64.efi is GRUB, probably. Just go with a file manager or cmd/bash in here, normally inside the EFI folder there should be another folder with the distro name on it

That may look like a dumb question, but... What does the "display" section of your desktop environment show? I'm assuming you are using XFCE, right?

What it actually seems to me is you actually care more about what people say than the product itself, and what it really is, and this translates in a "rant" against every community Please just don't.

This once reminds me how I dealt with my Surface Go tablet, ubuntu just would not be the primary boot option in any way possible. I ended up replacing the bootmgr.efi executable with the grub one, BUT you can also edit the Windows boot manager to load grub instead of bootmgr.efi by just changing the efi executable location from Windows bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi But change the \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi to your grub bootloader location This means the "Windows boot manager" entry from the UEFI bios actually loads GRUB everytime Anyway It's a bit risky unless you know what you do, brace yourself in any case.