> Somewhat related rant. > I had to wait another two weeks for support This situation is completely unacceptable. I hope you called Manjaro and asked to speak to a manager to get a refund on your free operating system.
If you can claim Linux is the equivalent of Windows or macOS and advocate for people using Linux instead of other OSes, you can’t also say “you’re not allowed to complain about it because it didn’t cost anything”. Either it’s comparable or it’s “deal with it’s problems because it’s free”. It can’t be both.
Somewhat related rant. I bought a 5700 after my GTX 970 died and I wanted to play games and do some game programming. I waited to buy it after it had been out for two months and I could get a good 3rd party cooler. I had to wait another two weeks for support to get into Manjaro (Arch). The 5700 series Navi cards had several dependencies. Mesa 19.2.1 (19.2.0 was not a production release), LLVM 9.0, Linux 5.3, anddddd.…
> Somewhat related rant. > I had to wait another two weeks for support This situation is completely unacceptable. I hope you called Manjaro and asked to speak to a manager to get a refund on your free operating system.
Wasn't Manjaro's fault.
And, if you actually read my post.
You would have known I blamed AMD for not properly supporting the card I paid for 2.5 months after launch.
Linux is even listed as a supported OS on the box. (Which is awesome btw!)
I don’t question his decision, people should do what is right for them. That said, something caught my eye: he was spending a lot of time tweaking the Linux UI instead of working. This was me fifteen or twenty years ago: wasting tons of time tweaking things. Now, I use Pop Linux as is in my System76 laptop and before that for years I just accepted the default Ubuntu setup. Good enough.
I switched to Arch expecting to tweak a bunch of stuff, and now I just use essentially stock GNOME with a couple of extensions downloaded through the GNOME extension manager and haven't touched it in years.
> Using windows/osx will always be more convenient at first. Or, you know, forever. The number of things the Linux Desktop community is actively hostile to that could make computing life so much simpler is ridiculous. Portable applications? Relative icon paths in .desktop files? A standardized set of base libraries developers can rely on being present? Linux Desktop cares not for such things. If you don't want to do…
> If you don't want to do things their way, fuck you, that's their motto. Then they wonder why people keep choosing other OSs. I definitely feel your pain (I can't count the number of times I have run into UX issues on various Linux distros, and in search for a fix/answer find many people that ran into the exact same issue but find that the maintainer has stubbornly refused to consider changing or fixing it), but rea…
Other OSs still have the advantage of, well, working in ways that aren't dreamed up by keyboard-only terminal jockeys who've only ever had GUI's described to them. I mean seriously, just look at the .desktop spec, or really any FreeDesktop.org spec, and tell me the person who wrote it had ever in their life used the GUI as anything other than a really fancy tmux.
Somewhat related rant. I bought a 5700 after my GTX 970 died and I wanted to play games and do some game programming. I waited to buy it after it had been out for two months and I could get a good 3rd party cooler. I had to wait another two weeks for support to get into Manjaro (Arch). The 5700 series Navi cards had several dependencies. Mesa 19.2.1 (19.2.0 was not a production release), LLVM 9.0, Linux 5.3, anddddd.…
> Somewhat related rant. > I had to wait another two weeks for support This situation is completely unacceptable. I hope you called Manjaro and asked to speak to a manager to get a refund on your free operating system.
"We want to be taken seriously as a Desktop OS!"
"Hey, I have a problem with your product..."
"It was FREE! Why are you complaining!?"
--Why Linux Desktop will never be a serious contender, part 12.
Somewhat related rant. I bought a 5700 after my GTX 970 died and I wanted to play games and do some game programming. I waited to buy it after it had been out for two months and I could get a good 3rd party cooler. I had to wait another two weeks for support to get into Manjaro (Arch). The 5700 series Navi cards had several dependencies. Mesa 19.2.1 (19.2.0 was not a production release), LLVM 9.0, Linux 5.3, anddddd.…
At the end of the day if you care about those subjects, macOS and Windows are where the fun is.
My Asus Netbook, which was bought with GNU/Linux nowadays still doesn't have the same DirectX 11 feature parity level, hand hardware video decoding, that the previous proprietary AMD drivers provided, so is the beauty of the new open source ones.
Meanwhile Asus has provided updated DirectX 11 drivers to all Windows generations since Windows 7.
Starting a job in a "Windows dependant" software house, I was forced to have both WLS and Linux VM. They gave me a brand new HP computer they prepared with company software, security software, etc. I was "Windows free" since 2009, ten year without Windows. The first problem was BSOD, that computer start randomly to crash, even after the software / system / driver upgrades the administrator installed on the machine and it still does, randomly. The same happen to my collegues. For the first time I noticed that now BSODs have a nice QR-Code. My impression about WLS is that's nice but still a toy with lot of limitation: first of all you can't full iteract using WSL tools with what is running in Windows space. It's useful to have access to Linux tools like grep, interpreters, etc to use against object resident on Windows file system. Sometimes Linux programs silently doesn't work well I noticed this using some Linux tool and Python libs, for example. This is the reason of the Linux VM running on my PC. IMHO WLS is far to be a replacement of a native Linux pc / VM, I still prefer to work on a Linux or OSX pc, even if Apple and Systemd are spending big effort to make me hate both, with the result I'm evaluating BSD.
In an effort to reinvigorate my computer chops, I've been bouncing between macOS, linux (Manjaro), and Windows 10 on my personal laptop, switching to the next OS in rotation every Sunday night. I'm set up to develop a number of my personal web projects in all three operating systems, with my environment being (more or less) the same across all three (Angular and Python development) using Sublime as my primary text ed…
Why restrict yourself to not use WSL? For me it's the best of all worlds currently - your favorite package manager giving you all Linux binaries you want, to operate on the same data that your windows GUI tools can also. Especially with VS code it is seemlessly integrated through remote tools and the "code" Linux binary. Only thing I'm missing is a terminal on the same level as Terminal.app or iterm, but I assume the coming update should solve that.