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i wish there was a distro that worked well with my hardware out of the box, preferably without any applications that i do not explicitly choose to install.

i have no interest in setting up pulseaudio/alsa or having to set nomodeset in my grub config for the 20th time.

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what distros have you tried? last 2 years have gotten rid of most of the pulseaudio/alsa annoyances, i didnt have to do any configuration on multiple machines (xubuntu 14.04, manjaro). i have one machine with an amd e-2000 that requires the nomodeset, which was annoying to fix, but that's also a pretty niche system. Overall my impression is that most hardware works out of the box pretty nice.

i usually stick to things with aptitude or pacman.

At least the kernel people still support nomodeset.

If the userspace people had their way, the option would likely have been ripped out long ago.

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