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windows?
Article says that doesn't include WSL / Docker
It's a joke about people moving to Linux not because it's gotten any better but because Windows has been getting worse
2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
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Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
#32Is there any Linux distribution with MacOS levels of reliability, simplicity, and productivity, that can reliably be updated without the boot partition getting full, random things like thunderbolt docks not working, or sleep states being faulty (or the machine not working properly after waking from sleep), or external monitor resolutions being wrong, and monitor scaling working properly when you have two monitors wit…
Pick a T-series thinkpad with an AMD CPU/GPU combo and the latest fedora. Done.
Don't forget that MacOS ships with very Limited hardware, too.
Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
#33Rant: last weekend I finished building my teenager dream PC - 12 cores cpu, 64GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB VRAM... GNOME on Ubuntu still managed to crash / hang on a fresh install. Will try Mint / others, but it's a shame the "gateway distro for new users" is in such sorry state.
Try Manjaro with KDE.
Manjaro's more stable than Ubuntu (somehow), and KDE is better than GNOME. :D
Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
#34Is there any Linux distribution with MacOS levels of reliability, simplicity, and productivity, that can reliably be updated without the boot partition getting full, random things like thunderbolt docks not working, or sleep states being faulty (or the machine not working properly after waking from sleep), or external monitor resolutions being wrong, and monitor scaling working properly when you have two monitors wit…
Fedora Workstation
Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
#35Is there any Linux distribution with MacOS levels of reliability, simplicity, and productivity, that can reliably be updated without the boot partition getting full, random things like thunderbolt docks not working, or sleep states being faulty (or the machine not working properly after waking from sleep), or external monitor resolutions being wrong, and monitor scaling working properly when you have two monitors wit…
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Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
#36Rant: last weekend I finished building my teenager dream PC - 12 cores cpu, 64GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB VRAM... GNOME on Ubuntu still managed to crash / hang on a fresh install. Will try Mint / others, but it's a shame the "gateway distro for new users" is in such sorry state.
Gnome Ubuntu is the "gateway distro for new users"? I would never ever Recommend that to new users.
Mint, popOS, and a few others for people coming from Windows would be the "gateway distro for new users"
gnome 3 is not for new users, back in the day, gnome 2.4 days maybe that was the case
Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
#37> a million steam deck this is still just a rumor at this stage as there is no source apart from one guy saying it in a KDE conference. If Valve had indeed shipped more than a million they'd be screaming about it on the rooftops.
Why would they? Private companies don't need to brag.
Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
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Nvidia with Wayland? That's on you then, man.
Exactly why I only use linux for headless serves. God knows how many totally obvious mistakes would be “on me” if I tried to set up a GUI workstation. Who’s got the time to learn why you can’t use of of the main GPU brands with one of the main GUIs?
Well, you did build your own rig, so some learning is expected, no?
Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
#39If I'm honest, Linux is...exhausting. I'm technically proficient, but even the "user-friendly" Ubuntu is a pain to work with. Something as simple as changing the mouse scroll speed requires creating a bash script. Software updates rarely work. There are random crashes that take hours to fix. I'm about to give in the towel and get a Mac.
I can get it to work because the terminal doesn't scare me, but there's no way I can recommend it to anyone without a certain amount of technical skills.
Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
#40Rant: last weekend I finished building my teenager dream PC - 12 cores cpu, 64GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB VRAM... GNOME on Ubuntu still managed to crash / hang on a fresh install. Will try Mint / others, but it's a shame the "gateway distro for new users" is in such sorry state.
Same story: 16 core, 64GB ram, 6900xt. And nothing crashes because even when being ridiculous I knew better than use Nvidia on Linux
Meanwhile, my Linux partition is rock solid and I cannot for the life of me figure out random hangs and crashes on clean Windows installs.
It is an Nvidia GPU. Honestly, they’re rarely the problem in Linux. Not in practice anyway.
Any hardware diag I try passes. Drivers? Tried both manufacturer and Windows Update. Always ends the same.
The mouse driver BSODed the machine one time. That was a new one.
I’ll stick with a Linux distro for real work, thanks.