why? because it’s not triggering an obscure anti cheat on a game I’ve been playing when using wine (performance is still the same tho), everything else is just work no missing dependencies and it’s doesn’t get in my way like other distros (I tried Arch, Opensuse, Ubuntu, Debian), just to clarify I’m a complete noob when it come to Linux so maybe if I know better I probably make everything works just like Fedora

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    You could’ve shifted into tty mode from there I think, but they don’t have a hotkey for a terminal emulator up. You probably also could’ve just hit the super key and used the search bar for “ter-” and it’ll pull it up, hit enter, and it’ll launch. Personally if none of that worked I would’ve went to walmart and bought the cheapest little logitec mouse with a usb dongle or borrowed one from work for a few days because they’re cool like that.

    Of course, you shouldn’t have to find a work around even if there are some, so there’s that too.

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      In theory super + term should’ve worked but in reality super didn’t open up search.

      It was incredibly cursed.

      Ultimately Mint was 0 effort so I’ll be sticking with it. It’s only a little toy laptop anyways.

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        laptop

        couldn’t you have just used the laptop’s built-in pointing device, plugged in a wired mouse or paired BT via console… instead of dying on this hill?

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              You were literally responded by suggesting they use their laptop’s HID, then suggested a wired mouse which they said they didn’t have, then suggested using the console which the install process doesn’t advertise as a possibility to the user.

              Poor UX is a bug, it needs to be updated.

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                I don’t disagree with that at all. I was responding specifically to where you said “if only laptop users could”, and I was just stating that the options I presented did not have a laptop as a prerequisite in order to use said options. It still needs fixing as you said, I just don’t agree with OP’s swift dismissal of the entire distro as a non-starter for the reason stated.

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          1. It was a mainboard not a full laptop. No built in pointing device.

          2. Couldn’t open the console because fedora would not accept any keystrokes to open terminal.

          3. I don’t have a USB c mouse.

          The only way to fix this would be purchasing a USB c mouse. I’m not installing fedora to pay more.

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        If this ever happens to you again, you can try doing ctrl + alt + < F1 - F12>. That will bring up different screens/terminals and its so baked into linux it might have still worked even in that broken state. Still bonkers the installer didn’t accept keyboars info though. Its ironic because so much of my linux experience has been about reducing mouse/touchpad use.

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          It didn’t work. I tried so many different options. I got to the point where I was facerolling the keyboard with all sorts of different options.

          This is something acknowledged by Fedora devs: It’s not my imagination.

          Here’s the link