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An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere

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Re: An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere

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Post by kusmi »

staticelf wrote: post #10

I use desktop linux on my work computer, it barely works and I have some issues. Although it's red hat enterprise which is running a lot of old shit. I think using a friendlier distro like Ubuntu or Fedora would probably be a lot better and give a much better experience.

I have Centos on my laptop and the Nvidia drivers work, steam works, 3 displays run flawlessly, SELinux is enforcing (!), but I'll be damned if I ever get the network printer to work.

Re: An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere

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Post by wiredfool »

I think status quo is a good thing. Linux users don't want stuff to break for no good reason.

I say this after reading the article, then hoping that the new kernel install doesn't bring back the video tearing/blinking when moving the mouse from screen 0 to 1.

Re: An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere

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Post by wiz21c »

My wife is on KDE, kids are on KDE every day (although they spend their time mostly inside firefox). I use openbox exclusively. It's debian stable (testing was a bit too stressful to update every week, I'm getting old :-))

Everything works : printing works (provided the driver is flawed); network works, cd burner works, Nvidia card works. electronic ID card works, USB stuff works. I even use a pretty old scanner and a pretty old drawing tablet; both work.

The PC is 7 years old. I've added hard drives, changed video card and moved to SSD drives.

The only pain point is that somehow, sometimes the PC doesn't shutdown because it has received a wake-on-lan packet.

Re: An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere

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Post by cdevs »

Running kali and then mint is when I first had to experience all this hunting down the nomodeset option, ubuntu was fine but can flip out on wifi after standby which I think my first goto fix was Sudo ifconfig wlan0 down then Sudo ifconfig wlan0 up. Cheers to the crazy ones running a low ram hogging distro and less background processes so they can carry on a $200 i3 cpu / 4gig ram laptop for many years beyond windows and Mac users.

Re: An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere

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Post by donquichotte »

Last fall I bought a Thinkpad T540s that came with Windows 10 + Lenovo Crapware and a sound driver that did not work out of the box. I installed Ubuntu on it and everything, including multiple displays, just worked. I didn't even have to recompile the kernel to get WiFi running.

Re: An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere

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Post by to3m »

staticelf wrote: post #10

I use desktop linux on my work computer, it barely works and I have some issues. Although it's red hat enterprise which is running a lot of old shit. I think using a friendlier distro like Ubuntu or Fedora would probably be a lot better and give a much better experience.

I use Ubuntu on my work PC.

- had to buy a 2nd GPU to get 3 monitors to work

- GPU driver won't drive my 2560x1440 monitor at the max res

- popup volume control pops up every minute or so (and sound pops and stutters a bit each time this happens)

- when waking from sleep, TTY works immediately, but GUI takes about 30 seconds to appear

- something crashes on every boot, but it doesn't tell me what (I dutifully submit a crash report)

- any time I drag something in Firefox (text, image, tab, etc.), Firefox crashes

USB throughput and FS performance are very good though, and 3d, wifi and suspend-to-disk do work!

(Whatever the root cause of all of these things, be it Linux per se or some other issue, the fact remains that I don't have any of these problems on Windows. Of course, I don't get the smashing filing system speed either...)

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