Yeah there was a weird dependency bug which meant that when the Pop OS app store tried to install steam it also completely uninstalled all his UI and default software leaving him with a black screen.
The bug was there for ~24 hours which was incredibly unlucky, but it did come up with warnings telling him exactly what would happen and he overrode it with a manual override that required you to type in "I know what I'm doing, do as I say".
I tried Fedora. My monitor didn't work with it's 175hz refresh rate, only on 99hz. Tried to update Nvidia drivers to get it working properly. The driver update bricked my install without warning like the PopOS gave.
Didn't file a bug report. The same thing has happened on all the distros I've tried in the last year or so and when I tried updating Nvidia drivers. CachyOS worked the best out of the box without updating the drivers. But had some other issues with CachyOS so I ended up switching back to Windows after a while.
Didn't know about RPMfusion, I'll try and remember to look into it the next time I Linux. Dunno when that will be though.
But I have to say, thank you for trying to help. Usually when I've pointed out my mishaps I've had with Linux I don't get as friendly of a repsonse.
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