I don’t think there are any more ways it can fail… maybe apart from failing to boot off the USB in the first place.
I guess since I’m forced to reinstall after having my OS bricked I’ll try a bunch of other flavors - like Mint.
Feel free to suggest other things to try as well.
If you play fallout 76 thru steam go with mint 21.3 not 22!
My $0.02 for what it’s worth!
Ah, no gaming. I use windows for gaming (and most everything else really - linux doesn’t support my g502 mouse, and that’s hyper important to me, to the point where if logitech stop making it, I will riot).
Linux for educational and dead-simple nas purposes.
I am now tinkering with Linux Mint 22: apt update on the live usb fails out of the box - like isn’t that a super basic thing to make sure works? At least the persistent storage works. Fingers crossed for the actually install 
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I am flabbergasted how the default experience on linux can be so bad.
You can always try debian stable, especially if you don’t want to game nor have bleeding edge hardware.
Never had trouble upgrading.
I found something called nixOS
Might be worth checking out. Especially for such types of applications.
As a long term Debian user from way back, I’ve actually been pretty impressed with Fedora 40 out of the box. Never did gel really with fedora before, but on my 5900x+6900XT based system everything just worked out of the box, no pulseaudio glitches (which I’ve had previously with other distros), bluetooth works properly, etc.
Install KDE of course, gnome is a dumpster fire.
Its bleeding edge enough to get all the cool stuff, but I haven’t seen too much actual bleeding.
Also, fedora is “mainstream enough” that most stuff work on it relatively painlessly and there’s a large community around it.
Owned by IBM now of course so remains to be seen how that goes but so far…
I’ve had a pretty bad experience with 24.04 as well, don’t remember the details but I switched back to ole reliable
Well, it turns out you cannot install either Ubuntu 24, nor Mint 22 on btrfs.
Sucks to be me.
Ubuntu 22.04 still works. I am now gonna try Mint 21.3
Fedora runs on btrfs out of the box it also has a really nice partitioning gui tool included in their setup process.
Edit:
It’s called blivet-gui:
Wiki: Blivet-gui - Fedora Project Wiki
Github: GitHub - storaged-project/blivet-gui: GUI tool for storage configuration using blivet library
If you are not really into make this you primary hobby i would not recommend nixos. It is great, but you have a lot of configuration ahead of you and the workflows are very different to any other distribution.
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My current Kubuntu 24.04 is on a btrfs partition.
But yeah, the upgrade to 24.04 was uncharacteristically problematic for me, and I have been upgrading the same way since several years now. Had to do a fresh install.
This is strange! I have been on Ubuntu for the last five years, and things have been unbelievably stable. What kind of specs are you running?
… huh?
It’s a mouse.
What do you mean?
I’m on 24.04 and don’t really have problems tbh.
Yeah, hardware might be interesting … except the mouse. xD
Works on my machine
text segment highlighted by my g502 mouse
bro. i use it EVERYDAY on openbsd and linux. they both support it. what do you mean doesnt support?
changing DPI
all the buttons are assignable
behavior is as expected
I’d probably be among the first to bash ubuntu ITT, but I’ll refrain for now.
Comparing ubuntu and nixos is like comparing a toy box with a tool box.
Anything can be installed on anything as long as the OS supports it, if you go through the chroot installation method.
I don’t think I’ve ever had apt working in a live usb on any debian derivative, be them ubuntu or mint. Apt should work once you install the OS on your system.
It’s an old sandy bridge machine I repurposed as a cheapo nas. You can see the other thread I posted in this forum, trying to solve the issue, before deciding being left with no choice but to just reinstall completely: Ubuntu upgrade bricked OS: initramfs unpacking failed invalid magic at start of compressed archive
@noenken @SgtAwesomesauce It’s a mouse with many programmable buttons, for which there is no software support on linux. In fact support for windows has also sort of ended, by way of enshittification. I run an old version of logitech’s software, because their new software is the mount olympus of absolute crap shit fuck bitch ass donkey poo.
@PhaseLockedLoop Application profiles? 
Last time I tried, I think piper was the control software the internet was recommending and that didn’t even work for static assignment.
Ubuntu’s works out of the box, and mint’s works if you comment out the erroring line in the sources file (apt edit-sources).
I’ve begun setting up Mint 21.3 now. It’s lighter on ram than ubuntu, even with cinnamon, and has cool features like the package installer, easy way to update the kernel, and pretty cool customization of the taskbar.
Some software packages are pretty behind, but I was able to update htop. Tho nano and tmux fail because of deps that cannot be satisfied (probably fixable, but eh, whatever, only htop had a relevant new feature in the new version).
It’s been working fine for me for as long as I can remember.
Damn, really? It’s just plug-and-play for me on Arch.
Honestly, I’ve found Mint to be the best desktop distro option if you want to stay in the Ubuntu/Debian ecosystem these days. Ubuntu used to be good a long time ago, but I’ve found that their focus on goofy things like Snap has somewhat damaged the stability and performance of the brand.
As a Debian user of course i’m going to tell you to just use Debian. But I know everyone’s workflow is different.
lol