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When the PC I'm installing a Linux distro on has the GPU driver built into the kernel I agree it's such a breeze and I love CachyOS, otherwise it can get painful.
Sorry I'm recently traumatised by my oldest computer that has a GTX1060 in it and I want to rant lol. It's retired to workout room duty, so I wanted a stable distro on the Stremio "you pass the butter" PC that I can neglect for long stretches of time.
I tried LMDE first because I was hoping to avoid the Canonical fork that is Mint prime. Installing non-free drivers on reboot just dumped me to TTYL. So then I decided after failing for 30 minutes to fix that to cut my losses as I figured it'd take less time to just install a different distro than troubleshoot Debian's issue. Wrong. Very wrong. Fedora the installer application would crash every time in live USB mode I opened it and I tried different DE's to see if that was the culprit. Nope. I tried OpenSUSE but it crashed loading live USB mode and shat out a kernel panic about my MSI B250 motherboard for the corei5 7600 it has installed, so that wasn't even Nvidia's fault. Only distro to do that. MX Linux installed then crashed to a broken unresponsive ttyl mode if you tried to run a program...like their non-free Nvidia driver installer. Sigh. I figure most of this is to do with nouveau.
Anyways, only Linux Mint worked. Fuck!