2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

Post by flatiron » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 1:41 AM UTC

JadeNB wrote: post #85

LarryMullins wrote: post #75

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There's no singular 'linux experience', all the problems you list are expected problems with some software on linux, but work just fine with other software systems on linux. Unfortunately many of the defaults chosen by Ubuntu are very poor and give bad first impressions. I think that recommending Ubuntu is an anachronism from the mid to late 00s. Experience makes it all much easier, simply because you learn which sof…

> I think that recommending Ubuntu is an anachronism from the mid to late 00s. What would you recommend as a modern-day user-friendly Linux experience? I've been looking for something not too demanding to put on an old X220.

Post by fomine3 » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 2:02 AM UTC

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #203

LarryMullins wrote: post #183

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Nah, it's pretty inexcusable for Gnome to not surface such a setting. LXQt's mouse configuration GUI lets you configure it, and LXQt has no more than a handful of people working on it. Gnome has more developer resources and could implement this easily, but they also have an attitude problem and bad priorities.

Yeah, the clear problem here is GNOME and it's arrogant disregard for users... Which I guess really is historically in line with Linux culture, unfortunately.

Post by fomine3 » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 2:08 AM UTC

reisse wrote: post #214

ryandrake wrote: post #137

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Or “You mean you want to run two monitors with different DPIs? What kind of oddball user are you, anyway?” Linux display stack’s treatment of monitor DPI is basically “throw our hands up and let apps like Firefox make it work!”

I think you gave this example as a joke, but here is a quote from one of the Wayland developers: > I would suggest that this setting [UI scale] needs to be a global and not a per-output thing. If it was a per-output thing, windows moving between different monitors would probably have problems (text size changes while window size does not?). It is hard to imagine how it would work as a per-output setting, for me at le…

Post by delta_p_delta_x » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 2:23 AM UTC

LarryMullins wrote: post #135

aussiesnack wrote: post #127

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The apparently innocent "sharing" of positive experiences - so sweet! so nice! - is from Linux self-identifiers all too often a very crude backhanded "you're wrong about the problems you claim to have with Linux, and if you're not wrong, then you're at least thick or lazy".

You've pulled these insults out of thin air. I have no animosity towards Windows or Mac users, nor for those that might hypothetically like Linux but understandably have better things to do with their time than learn the ins and outs of it.

Post by uncletaco » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 2:32 AM UTC

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #45

teawrecks wrote: post #28

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I'll take "Sentiments from the Linux Community that Actively Drive Users Away" for 300.

Yeah, there's a huge problem in the community where every problem is the user's fault. Like, using the most popular graphics card provider on Linux shouldn't be some outlandish idea that should be ridiculed.