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I’ve tried several distros and every updated kernel up to 5.9. No distro works if it has a kernel newer than 5.6.
Please report this bug.
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It has been ages since I had to reinstall windows. I was a thing I just did once in a while more than a decade ago but I haven't had to on multiple systems for a long time now.
To be fair this true on both OSs in the last 5-10 years. You can just upgrade to the newer versions so no need to uninstall.
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> Really, most modern Linux distros are pretty god damn nice. I agree, and what really sold me was Plasma Desktop, as someone that couldn't stand KDE 3 & 4. It used to be that GNOME was the desktop environment you could turn into a Windows or macOS clone, but it looks like that switched with GNOME 3 and KDE 5. I have Plasma Desktop set up[1] to take advantage of my macOS muscle memory when it comes to the GUI and key…
I finally got fed up with tweaking Arch/DWM and switched to Manjaro with KDE on my main machine, I went through all the versions of Manjaro and all had their problems and I finally settled on KDE. Looks good, allows me some tweaking, runs surprisingly light. Although, still some annoying bugs, the most annoying being when I open an application on my 1440p screen, KDE often opens it on my second monitor for no real re…
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I finally got fed up with tweaking Arch/DWM and switched to Manjaro with KDE on my main machine, I went through all the versions of Manjaro and all had their problems and I finally settled on KDE. Looks good, allows me some tweaking, runs surprisingly light. Although, still some annoying bugs, the most annoying being when I open an application on my 1440p screen, KDE often opens it on my second monitor for no real re…
> Although, still some annoying bugs, the most annoying being when I open an application on my 1440p screen, KDE often opens it on my second monitor for no real reason. This here is my most hated thing about KDE. I run it on Debian so my version is pretty old compared, has it been fixed in newer versions? I have been thinking about switching to Neon, but I don't care for the Ubuntu base verses vanilla Debian.
I've found XFCE and cinnamon are the most stable/reliable DE's. I'm rocking Manjaro cinnamon right now.
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>As a gamer, well, there is no competition for me, really. In 2018 I switched to Arch Linux at home because I heard "Linux has less games". Before that I used Linux exclusively at work. To test it out I installed it on a 32GB flash drive so that I don't have the urge to install games when I'm space limited. It worked for the first 3 months. Then I got a new SSD and installed it there. A few days later proton came out…
You're conflating "less games" with "no games". Linux has less games available. (I guess a lot less but I haven't played in decades.)
I've been running KDE Neon on a NUC for several years now, and has been quite happy with that as a secondary PC. However, as much as I like it, I've not even tried to run it on my primary desktop due to the lack of a viable RDP alternative. The irony here is that with Microsoft implementing RDP support in WSL2, the thing that might finally remove the key obstacle might render the entire point moot.
I started my journey with linux at the age of 12 when Canonical was sending out free CD's of Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04. After nearly 13 years of usage I am a happy user of Windows 10 now. My reasons are: * Horrible font rendering that makes me not even want to code * Terrible application support * Audio and touchpad support is noticeably superior on Windows * Small things that you have to tinker with in order to get ev…
> After nearly 13 years of usage I am a happy user of Windows 10 now. All right, then I really need to ask: it took you 13 years of using Ubuntu unhappily before you decided to switch to Windows? > Horrible font rendering that makes me not even want to code I know every system does font rendering a bit differently, and what people like to see really seems to have a big subjective factor it. Personally, I've always ha…
I went from Ubuntu to Debian, from there to Arch, played around with BSD's, back to Arch, then to Ubuntu. I had a lot of fun doing things like writing GTK+ apps and playing around with sysadmin stuff but certain user experience related things never really went away.
>I know every system does font rendering a bit differently, and what people like to see really seems to have a big subjective factor it. Personally, I've always had a preference to how fonts are rendered on, for example, Ubuntu compared to Windows 10, especially with 2x scaling on high-DPI displays, but I acknowledge everyone's different.
At >200 dpi I find that even VGA fonts look good. The difference is clear when you compare MBA 2017 to MBA 2018 font rendering, a HiDPI display fixes everything. I could see Windows font rendering degrade on hiDPI due to Cleartype forcing subpixel rendering but I don't possess such display devices.
>Not disagreeing with you on this point. However, when it comes to "tinkering", I find all the cloud-connected nonsense and "extras" that Windows comes with turned on and thrown in your face by default after an install a much bigger annoyance, and I often have to go digging through all kinds of settings windows to get a good deal of that turned off, and even then it's not always possible (see telemetry, for example). A new Windows 10 install is a lot more effort in "tinkering" with all the settings into some sane configuration than any Linux distro where you're not compiling your own kernel and/or packages (and maybe even then).
I used the Windows 10 LTSC iso from Windows' own website and it has no adware or extra apps installed, even Microsoft Store is disabled. Nowadays Windows Defender seems to carry it's weight.
I guess instead of "I am tired of tinkering" I should have specified it as "I am tired of tinkering on things I don't find fun to tinker with" like DPI and drivers on Linux. I'd rather tinker with Haskell or my job without the OS getting in my way.
MacOS seems to be a great compromise between the two. HiDPI macs look great and I can tinker on choice.
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First and foremost, sound. I tried to get mixing -- simultaneous playback from different programs -- to work, spent like half an hour on trying to figure out and gave up. On Windows, it works out of the box, so half an hour was more than generous allotment of time. Next, sleep / resume. Has never worked for me on Linux; at the work place where I used Linux, I just let the machine run overnight. That would be a no-go…
> Skylake From this I gather that we are talking ~5 years ago? > First and foremost, sound. I tried to get mixing -- simultaneous playback from different programs I remember this being a problem 10 years ago, but not since pulseaudio. > sleep / resume I successfully use systemctl suspend a lot. But yeah, depends on the hardware, def. a pain point. > experimental support for the chipset [...] completely froze Not sure…
This is what to make of this: The then-latest linux kernel did not support then-latest hardware.
I just moved to Linux as my primary OS; been fucking great. 11/10 Overall, everything seems to "just work" at least as well as on MacOS and is not quite (for me) as endlessly frustrating as Windows. Gaming has also been effortless and honestly just the most delightful surprise about the whole thing. I can write code AND play games... on the same machine... and it's running Linux?! I would've lost that bet ten years a…
I strongly doubt Python+GTK is easier option compared to WinForms/WPF. Maybe installing IDE is blocker for you?
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Please report this bug.
I will if I get time, which is unlikely. Intel is not a volunteer-run organization nor even a small company so I'm sure they could afford a test-bed containing one of each of their GPUs to test their drivers before release if they cared about this.