Only when you’re so poor (earn less than 15k/yr out 21k a year in some states) not having it functionally costs more money, but only so long as you follow all the bureaucratic rules to continually prove eligibility.

And don’t forget, you still have to find healthcare providers that accept Medicaid, pay copays, etc.

The other commenter is giving good advice, but I think they’re knee-jerking a bit hard on the arch base. I presented 3 gaming oriented distributions. All have guardrails. All are opinionated. All are fully featured, user-friendly experiences.

Yes, arch (by itself) is a bad idea as a solution, but so is gentoo, and so is Debian testing.

I believe the issues they’re so concerned about actually apply to every rolling release distro like the others, but it’s the only way you’re going to get OOTB support for the 9700xt until the major release distributions catch up.

Linux users have strong feelings and often let perfect at any expense get in the way of good enough and cheap. This is a demonstrably negative experience for new users.

I knew that would happen.

FWIW, there are many arch-based distros with a lot of handholding. Heck, garuda has built in btrfs snapshots on update. I believe OP would have an easier time using garuda than setting up all the other things necessary to make other plain rolling release distributions work.

To OP, raw arch is definitely not for newbies. Don’t try to install arch to fix your issue.

Hey friend, looks like you might be spinning your wheels yet.

You have two options to get driver support for the 9070:

• manually update the Linux kernel in mint/pop to 6.13
• install a distro that has 6.13 by default

Here’s a mint thread talking about it, pop os will be the same.

That said, I can’t in good conscience recommend the manual route for a Linux newbie, so strongly consider a fedora or arch based distro.

If gaming is your primary use case, the ones with tons of gaming apps and tweaks built in are Bazzite (based on fedora atomic), nobara (based on fedora), and garuda “Dr460nized” gaming (Based on Arch)

This is the right answer. You need a fresher kernel. 6.12 or 6.13.

If gaming is your core use case, check out bazzite, nobara, or garuda to get many of the goodies baked in.