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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like Linux because it let’s me do whatever I want on it. Windows is so controlling. For example in Windows, there are lots of occasions where a window will pop up asking you do make a decision, and while that window is up, you cannot click on any of the other windows. Say I want to save a file, but I want to look at the document. If the save window is up, I can’t review the document because it wont let me. That’s so freaking annoying.

I hear you. Another thing I like about Linux is the virtual consoles. When the GUI would show the same thing you just described, and imagine you'd have some 50 program windows open, you can just switch with control alt F1 to a virtual console, log in and shut down a certain program or do some manual page reading. And after that simply switch back to the GUI.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's generally a lot more control-able with a terminal. I can remote into any of my machines, including IOT stuff, and have full control over any of their settings, like, say, volume or display brightness or whatever. With GUI it's like what, RDP/VNC/Teamviewer in? Gonna be painful over mobile connection.... Apps? The developer just went bankrupt and now it's dead because the cloud server is down. And I haven't even started on automation...

Also, changing multiple behaviours in one place is also nice. Say, I want to remove the volume osd and control how I want to manipulate windows. It's either an array of small disconnected utilities(in this case, HideVolumeOSD + AltDrag), or huge RAM hogger utilities like DesktopFusion, or, I can just edit it in my WM config with just a couple of lines. Things like adjusting volume based on window position (to have a background and foreground media displays) is completely out of the picture on Windows and are a breeze on Linux.

In short, lots of benefits. The downside, I guess, is a complete disarray of components. Like in case of volume again, I have pipewire daemon pretending to be pulseaudio which is middleware for alsa... and all of their corresponding utilities work but control the same thing, so it's incredibly confusing which ones to use. Also webapps for some reason can control their own volume in the system mixer(?) So there's at least 4 ways to adjust just one slider. And it can create confusion when multiple things interact with different interfaces - I'm still to figure out which fucking thing keeps setting the grp:alt_shift_toggle option in my keyboard layout.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

In short, lots of benefits.

Agreed :)

The downside, I guess, is a complete disarray of components. Like in case of volume again, I have pipewire daemon pretending to be pulseaudio which is middleware for alsa…

Right. I guess this has to do with the history of audio support in Linux. From OSS to Alsa to Pulseaudio to Pipewire, and some sort of compatibility and upgrade safety for the Linux distributions maybe. Lately it took me a lot of time to solve some sudden audio problems with mpd server software. Then I tried Mopidy which works with GStreamer, completely different, and with different results. In the end I solved the problems with mpd, which was good because mpd can play audio from mp4 video, and I am not sure this can be done with Mopidy. Saves me a lot of video or audio formats converting.