Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

I Miss BSD/Linux

brainbaking.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

201–210 of 251 posts

Re: I Miss BSD/Linux

#201

Post by baq »

fragmede wrote: post #33
TheRoque wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but this is still true IMO. For example no good driver is available for the GTX 1080 which will result in a buggy experience. Not even talking about software availability and functionalities. I have had other issues, but anyways I don't want to list them all. I also find it misleading to claim that Arch Linux is "rock solid", just look at the news to see the amount of "manual intervention needed" listed. I lov…

> For example no good driver is available for the GTX 1080 which will result in a buggy experience. If you have a GTX 1080. For everyone else that has moved on from an 8 year old graphics card, they won't run into that particular issue. Hence some people reporting a rock solid experience with Arch Linux.

Well… I’ve got the 1070 and it still has more than enough performance for the games I play.

Re: I Miss BSD/Linux

#202

Post by dragcavecheater »

throwaway1105q wrote: post #91
sumuyuda wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s still no USB-A support, so the dongle book was never truly fixed.

I haven't used USB-A single time since 2018... My USB-C display has it on its hub, but who cares...

Not even just to plug in a joke gift? I got a gigantic Escape key once, which connected on a usb-A port. Most of that peripheral stuff still uses it.

Re: I Miss BSD/Linux

#203

Post by dragcavecheater »

throwaway1105q wrote: post #171
vundercind wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes? My company’s mostly Windows and the peripherals issued are all brand new and are all usb-a. We Mac weirdos have to dongle constantly or not use them. Even the non-Apple major brand Bluetooth wireless earbuds they issue have a usb-a plug on the end of the charging cable for the case.

I was scared of getting a Mac for years because of the dongles. Then I got one from work (they even gave me the dongle and I made fun of it) and turns out I never use any of it. And then I realized the USB-A port on my desktop front panel has been broken probably for years and I didn't notice.

Oh, so you just don't use peripherals at all. That is not a very common scenario.

Re: I Miss BSD/Linux

#204

Post by yellowapple »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #39
bitsandboots wrote: post #36

I feel the author's grief over lack of time, but it has lead me to very different solutions. All around the idea of the OS should not interrupt, should not change rapidly, and my interaction with programs should not be much different from OS to OS. At work, I opted for a mac due to how terrible the windows options were. But macos itself fought me all the way so the way to be happy at work was to replace finder, to re…

> Debian: something I can trust, that gets out of my way, and changes slowly. Wholeheartedly agree. Debian has won the distro wars in my opinion. Their massive effort in safety and not breaking things means I can use stable as a "it just works" tool and focus on my actual work/fun.

Funny enough, I argue the exact same thing... about openSUSE.

Re: I Miss BSD/Linux

#205

Post by pjmlp »

ginko wrote: post #138
pjmlp wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It means that any normie can get a perfectly working GNU/Linux laptop from a random shopping mall and everything works out of the box without any constraints.

Normies use smartphones these days.

I would really like to see normies do regular computing tasks on their phones, then again HN is full of folks that rather buy an iPad and connect to a cloud VM via ssh, instead of a proper laptop.

Re: I Miss BSD/Linux

#207

Post by benhurmarcel »

thrownawayjests wrote: post #53

After running Linux (plain, crappy boring Ubuntu) as my daily driver for the last few years, I'm convinced that we're at the point where the only real barrier to wider adoption is software, and this is less and less of an issue the more we work in the browser. For your basic user, it's performant, simple, stable, and does everything a computer needs. Every time I boot up Windows it takes forever, I find that a new up…

> I have no idea how normies put up with this.

Remove the pinned ads for apps once, never open the widgets, shut down every night so updates are transparent.

Sure Microsoft could make a nicer product. But it doesn't really affect users in their day-to-day.

Re: I Miss BSD/Linux

#208

Post by arghwhat »

sedatk wrote: post #90
arghwhat wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the link. What an amusing band-aid. It's weird that they're mixing ReFS into it, as NTFS is not at all the problem. It feels like they're either using this as a random opportunity to air ReFS again, or as a decoy to make it sound like the dev partition is a fancy special filesystem optimization, rather than the more likely reality of it being duct tape on their weird VFS layer, likely doing away with stuff…

What’s weird about Microsoft’s VFS layer?

The primary peculiarity and cause of issues is the Microsoft "filter driver" concept that allows I/O to be intercepted for a variety of purposes. A primary use-case for this is Just-in-Time anti-virus scanning, both for Windows Defender and third party products, which makes tasks that involve many small I/O operations (like compiling sources, using git, dealing with training sets or unzipping something with many files) very slow.

Re: I Miss BSD/Linux

#209

Post by throwaway1105q »

dragcavecheater wrote: post #203
throwaway1105q wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was scared of getting a Mac for years because of the dongles. Then I got one from work (they even gave me the dongle and I made fun of it) and turns out I never use any of it. And then I realized the USB-A port on my desktop front panel has been broken probably for years and I didn't notice.

Oh, so you just don't use peripherals at all. That is not a very common scenario.

I do, but it's all wireless. My laptop and desktop both have Bluetooth.

Re: I Miss BSD/Linux

#210

Post by throwaway1105q »

dragcavecheater wrote: post #202
throwaway1105q wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't used USB-A single time since 2018... My USB-C display has it on its hub, but who cares...

Not even just to plug in a joke gift? I got a gigantic Escape key once, which connected on a usb-A port. Most of that peripheral stuff still uses it.

Hahaha, that's a cool one. But yeah I never got something like that.
Post reply on HN