Oops I...did it again (Distro Hopped) | Ultramarine 40 | Pop_OS!

I recently, for reasons unknown, jumped back onto Ubuntu after a stint on Tumbleweed. Actually taking the time to understand my drives and partitions really paid off and after ensuring that I had installed the system onto one of my SSDs, while keeping my files on a different drive, I was very pleased once I got everything firing on all cylinders.

But then...I decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.10 from 24.04. I experienced several crashes when either attempting to open applications/rebooting once frozen. These were evidently due to GPU errors of the NVIDIA-modeset variety. A dozen or so of these had me itching to dump it and roll back to previously known-good distributions (like Tumbleweed or Ultramarine). I decided on Ultramarine due to it being Fedora-based and very dependable when I used it before. Above are some installation screengrabs.

Upon getting things set up on Ultramarine 40, I did notice some lagging/freezing when opening things like kdenlive (my current go-to video editor). I remembered having similar issues ages ago when using TW...and the fix was to log off and then at the log-in screen, select "GNOME on Xorg." So that's what I did. Or was that more of a X11 vs Wayland issue? Smooth sailing today and, as I always say, I hope to be here a while...

UPDATE: As pretty as Ultramarine was...I just couldn't get my NVIDIA goods all clicking. After wrestling with it for a bit, I tried jumping over to Fedora 40 GNOME edition...had no luck there, either. Could this be due to the Wayland only update? I then tried Fedora KDE, with similar, if not worse results.

What ended up working? I decided to try Pop_OS! again (though it's been a while). With Pop, at least my NVIDIA card was recognized immediately and the drivers have been installed. Let's give 'er a few days and see what happens...