Seriously, y’all are not moving me to switch daily drivers here. I run nothing but headless Linux servers, but for a desktop? Let me start a fight: Which distro?
Last job was at a software dev. One soul of 130 worked with Linux as his daily driver. One. And y’all expect non-technical people to run Linux?!
Also, and this guarantees downvotes, I don’t have the Windows issues you all tell me I have. Same install, years and years, multiple SSDs and PCs, no issues. I can hear you grinding your teeth, “NOAWW! You have problems! I INSIST your desktop fucks up all the time! I INSIST $MS crams unwanted updates up your ass!” Well, there is an update icon waiting on me. Not touching it ATM.
Only issue in recent memory is that it sometimes doesn’t wake properly. About once every 2 weeks I have to hold the power button for a few seconds, let off, hit it again, acheive desktop.
Not trusting the gang who talked me into Firefox last year. What a fucking mess of a browser. Was on Edge last week, without realizing it, everything was smooth as glass. Firefox fucks up the most basic spellcheck. Really?! Still have to swap over to watch YouTube without ads, how’s that for irony? Imagur is plain broken outside of Edge. I get weird graphic artifacts and issues on Firefox.
Sir this is the nerd zone, and here you are complaining that there’s nerds in the nerd zone talking about nerd things.
I convinced many of average Joes and Marys to switch without issue, never have I had to bother tell them what a wayland or X11 is, I just put Linux Mint on their laptops, give them a few practical tips (stuff like “use the app store instead of scouring websites for your software”), things just work and they happily go do whatever they do with their PC.
Which distro?
Whichever one you prefer.
I don’t have the Windows issues you all tell me I have
Cool, /c/windows is over here you might probably enjoy it more than this place.
…Actually I largely agree, and I’m a CachyOS Linux acolyte.
I have my Windows partition stripped down to the bone. Not even Defender’s active, but once it’s like that it does just work for games, media and such. The partition is ancient.
…It would be hellishly inconvenient for dev stuff though. You are massively overselling Windows there.
Same with Firefox. I’ve had some weird issues with it on Linux and Windows, especially with hardware/graphics acceleration.
You have the same energy against Firefox as Linux users have against Windows.
Meanwhile Firefox runs great for me. Used it for years. Never had the issues you described (on windows and on Linux; I use both btw.)
Sometimes the graphics go fuzzy and I have to reboot, not even restarting the video drivers works, no issue in Edge.
Imgur doesn’t load. I use the Imagus extension in both browsers, flawless in Edge, spotty in Firefox. (Yes, that’s on Imagus, probably not the browser.)
I can watch YouTube logged in on Edge with Ublock, no ads. Have to log out in Firefox. So if I see an interesting video here, I have to copy/paste to Edge.
Porn browsing? Straight to Edge. What six keys do I need to hit for private mode again? CTRL+SHIFT+N, as it ever was.
There’s more, but those issues are top of mind.
I could probably figure out these issues, point being, non-technical users would run away. Kinda like how lemmy is utterly broken for me. My brain just shunts off the annoyances, but I can’t expect anyone else to do so.
I can hardly sell Linux to Joe User, when not even technical people use it as a daily driver, was the point of my original comment.
Lemmy: “Switch to Linux!”
Me, in IT for 3 decades: “Fuck is Wayland?”
Comments: Clusterfuck of conflicting opinions.
Seriously, y’all are not moving me to switch daily drivers here. I run nothing but headless Linux servers, but for a desktop? Let me start a fight: Which distro?
Last job was at a software dev. One soul of 130 worked with Linux as his daily driver. One. And y’all expect non-technical people to run Linux?!
Also, and this guarantees downvotes, I don’t have the Windows issues you all tell me I have. Same install, years and years, multiple SSDs and PCs, no issues. I can hear you grinding your teeth, “NOAWW! You have problems! I INSIST your desktop fucks up all the time! I INSIST $MS crams unwanted updates up your ass!” Well, there is an update icon waiting on me. Not touching it ATM.
Only issue in recent memory is that it sometimes doesn’t wake properly. About once every 2 weeks I have to hold the power button for a few seconds, let off, hit it again, acheive desktop.
Not trusting the gang who talked me into Firefox last year. What a fucking mess of a browser. Was on Edge last week, without realizing it, everything was smooth as glass. Firefox fucks up the most basic spellcheck. Really?! Still have to swap over to watch YouTube without ads, how’s that for irony? Imagur is plain broken outside of Edge. I get weird graphic artifacts and issues on Firefox.
Hum?
Sir this is the nerd zone, and here you are complaining that there’s nerds in the nerd zone talking about nerd things.
I convinced many of average Joes and Marys to switch without issue, never have I had to bother tell them what a wayland or X11 is, I just put Linux Mint on their laptops, give them a few practical tips (stuff like “use the app store instead of scouring websites for your software”), things just work and they happily go do whatever they do with their PC.
Whichever one you prefer.
Cool, /c/windows is over here you might probably enjoy it more than this place.
…Actually I largely agree, and I’m a CachyOS Linux acolyte.
I have my Windows partition stripped down to the bone. Not even Defender’s active, but once it’s like that it does just work for games, media and such. The partition is ancient.
…It would be hellishly inconvenient for dev stuff though. You are massively overselling Windows there.
Same with Firefox. I’ve had some weird issues with it on Linux and Windows, especially with hardware/graphics acceleration.
You have the same energy against Firefox as Linux users have against Windows. Meanwhile Firefox runs great for me. Used it for years. Never had the issues you described (on windows and on Linux; I use both btw.)
Woah. Sir, this is trademark infringement. You’re only allowed to use that phrase with Arch.
Well, my daily driver is actually running arch (btw) so I felt like I’m allowed to use that phrase ;)
what’s broken on firefox?
Spellcheck crosses out even basic English, has me questioning myself! I’ve probably added 2,000 words to the dictionary, no improvement.
Weird graphic artifacts, non-stop, it’s blinking as I edit this post.
Sometimes the graphics go fuzzy and I have to reboot, not even restarting the video drivers works, no issue in Edge.
Imgur doesn’t load. I use the Imagus extension in both browsers, flawless in Edge, spotty in Firefox. (Yes, that’s on Imagus, probably not the browser.)
I can watch YouTube logged in on Edge with Ublock, no ads. Have to log out in Firefox. So if I see an interesting video here, I have to copy/paste to Edge.
Porn browsing? Straight to Edge. What six keys do I need to hit for private mode again? CTRL+SHIFT+N, as it ever was.
There’s more, but those issues are top of mind.
I could probably figure out these issues, point being, non-technical users would run away. Kinda like how lemmy is utterly broken for me. My brain just shunts off the annoyances, but I can’t expect anyone else to do so.
I can hardly sell Linux to Joe User, when not even technical people use it as a daily driver, was the point of my original comment.
non technical users don’t tend to experience these issues, since they don’t know enough about computers to get them messed up like yours