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I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by GlacierFox »

osigurdson wrote: post #454
GlacierFox wrote: post #336

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Has apple severely degraded the developer experience on MacOS recently or something?

You may not need it but no kernel support for containers / cgroups is a deal breaker for me. Windows at least makes an attempt with WSL. But, at the end of the day, most things are just about rationalizing what you want to use. I personally identify with Linux tribe, not Mac tribe therefore that is what I want to use.

I had no idea there was no kernel support for containers. I use containers a lot now but haven't used MacOS in years. Thanks for the info. (Fedora/ Windows user myself)

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by abhinavk »

tapoxi wrote: post #274
everdrive wrote: post #52

Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, and Mint remain great recommendations; good stability, community support, etc. (even for Ubuntu, a regular user might not actually care that much about snaps so long as everything works) I just moved to CachyOS, (from Fedora, and earlier from Ubuntu -- I've been on Linux for a while) and I've been very, very happy. The gaming performance is legitimately better than what I was getting on Fedora…

I think a lot of cachy performance is placebo, because Steam games use the container runtime's Debian 11 libraries, it doesn't use the native CachyOS ones at all.

That's still using Cachy's kernel. Cachy uses a different scheduler and compiles for x86_64_v3 instruction set. It won't get you a world-shattering boost but ~5% is what comes up in benchmarks.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

anonymousDan wrote: post #671
tombert wrote: post #667

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I have been running desktop Linux for a very long time, but I actually agree. There's a lot of rough edges. I do think a lot of these problems do go away if you are a bit proactive in choosing compatible hardware. I bought my mother in law a laptop for Christmas, and I put Linux Mint on there [1]. There were no issues getting it working on Mint with Cinnamon, but that's in no small part because I double checked all t…

How do you check the hardware is compatible in practice? Is there some reliable resource for doing this?

I bought a cheap laptop with preinstalled linux, it happened to be compatible with linux.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by rjdj377dhabsn »

guerrilla wrote: post #249
rjdj377dhabsn wrote: post #132

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Backdoors in the OS or firmware? I always use Linux, so I don't care what software it came with. If you're suggesting there are firmware backdoors, I'd like to see your evidence.

There have been known vulnerabilities in ASUS firmware, but I was referring to Armoury Crate which is forcefully pushed on Windows users. > I'd like to see your evidence. I think this is a really bad epistemological stance in this case.

A vulnerability (that is presumably fixed after) is a lot different than an intentional backdoor.

> I think this is a really bad epistemological stance in this case.

Why? If one can't point to any evidence, how is it reasonable to suggest that a manufacturer is adding backdoors?

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by adham-omran »

Wish I could too. I ended up running Windows, Linux and MacOS. While gaming is getting there, tools in many many domains are still unsupported, e.g. Office, Adobe, Audio Production. No OS is perfect and running all three is the way for the most comprehensive experience for people with interests in multiple domains.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by nottorp »

raffael_de wrote: post #532
nottorp wrote: post #484

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> I'm anyway mostly using mouse and keyboard Have you considered that you're using the mouse because the touchpad doesn't work as well on any other OS? It's not the hardware, it's the software somehow that makes the touchpad usable in Mac OS.

i have been using macbooks for many years as that's usually the only corporate option next to thinkpad+windows. and i definitely prefer a logitech mouse.

Steelseries not good? Razer? Microsoft?

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by xattt »

throw-qqqqq wrote: post #553
xattt wrote: post #473

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> … desktop Linux still has rough edges … My personal pet peeve is the GTK/Qt divide. Theming has an extra step, as you have to pick a matching theme for the other toolkit apps you inevitably end up using. KDE/Qt has excellent scaling support, but GTK apps (OrcaSlicer for example) end up having blurry text or messed up text labels if you run a non-integer scaling resolution. The Wayland transition almost seems akin t…

>> … desktop Linux still has rough edges … > My personal pet peeve is the GTK/Qt divide. Theming has an extra step, as you have to pick a matching theme for the other toolkit apps you inevitably end up using. Is this perhaps an issue of fractional scaling? I’ve run Openbox/Blackbox on Linux for ~15 years and never had these issues. Not 100% sure I understand the issue at least. Things look mostly fine (to me) and eve…

Yes, this is a KDE/GTK issue, but this is also a real-world case.

Linux Greybeards, a hypothetical man with astute technical and sexual prowess, might not be bothered by follies such as proper text rendering, but it is an issue if desktop environments have any chance to compete with mainstream operating systems.

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

whatever1 wrote: post #541
voxleone wrote: post #299

It’s worth acknowledging the real challenges raised in this thread: desktop Linux still has rough edges for some use cases, hardware support isn’t always perfect, and niche professional software may lack native support or require workarounds. But these obstacles are not intrinsic technical limitations so much as ecosystem and investment gaps, areas where community projects, standards efforts, and wider adoption could…

Nobody cares about what runs under the hood (I mean the real market, not the dozen of us nerds), as long as it looks and plays nice. Market already uses linux both in the form of android but also as a server OS. For both of these the financial incentive was there for someone to write the drivers, make the UI user friendly (android users never have to open a terminal), create sales channels. Desktop and laptop market…

I had to open a terminal on android to copy photos to laptop with tar|netcat for backup and larger screen.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by cbruns »

distances wrote: post #394
cbruns wrote: post #171

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Haha, exact same thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. You probably had the same issue as me. The driver dropped support for older cards and you had to switch to a legacy AUR package. I fixed it with some frantic googling while my friends waited a half hour. Not sure how you would know this without subscribing to some arch news feed or something. Not ideal.

That's exactly how it's supposed to work: Arch expects you to check the notes on their news section always before you update. The NVIDIA driver issue and solution was posted on Dec 20th. I'm not saying I'm reading these regularly, just that yes it's the expected way.

Fair enough, and now I do. It is still the most recent news item and the instructions for the fix are clear: https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-su...

When I was googling to fix in the moment, I unfortunately did not find the news page.

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