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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I'm a programmer at a tech company. Last month, I tried setting up two different distros on my personal computer, in anticipation of Windows 10 EOL.

    I experienced:

    • Total failure of wifi drivers
    • Graphical corruption returning from sleep mode
    • Inability to load levels in Deck-certified games
    • Critical input delays in a reflex-based online game
    • Inability to install a particular Linux-native app on my particular distro; not only unavailable by main package manager, but also by its alternative container-based strategy.
    • Right-click menus that hid the options I'm used to finding on Windows, with no visible way to turn them on.
    • Repeated overriding of my customization of keyboard shortcuts
    • Inability to assign Ctrl+Tab as a keyboard shortcut for a terminal app (Tab was unrecognized)
    • UI forms altering my selection when I was attempting to scroll past them
    • No discernible methods to pin frequently used folders to the sidebar of the file explorer
    • No discernible way to remove/edit Application entries (leading to games that I created an entry though off Steam's install dialog being stuck there even after the game was deleted)

    So no, don't keep telling me I'm staying on Windows out of idiocy. If someone replies to this with a doctoral on why every single issue is actually somehow my fault, it completes the trifecta.

    Linux distros need to take a step back for a long, lengthy discussion on good user experience before they rush back to making memes like these.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    I tried setting up two different distros

    Would you mind telling what were the two distros you were trying to setup just for reference?

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I installed Distro A, and Distro B, and you're about to reply:

    "Oh, well there's your problem! A and B aren't great for beginners (even though you read they were from someone else). I'd strongly recommend, C, D, E, or F."

    Whether it's installing a new distro off new recommendations or spending time tinkering to get one of them working right, it's still the same annoyance, and it's unlikely to change. That said, if you have read that and will restrain from jabbing back about it or are just genuinely curious:

    DistrosLinux Mint 21, then Linux Mint 22, then Bazzite

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

    Thank you for the full disclosure, I think it adds weight to your post and no don't worry I wasn't going to argue with you about your distro choices, not at all.

    I'm a very average Joe which also when into heaps of trouble when I tried to setup a Linux distro (mainly tried Pop_OS and Fedora KDE) so I feel the same as you 👌

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

    This. I need to get work done, not work on my os.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

    Oh, they have lengthy discussion on good user experience. Have you seen gnome argue with the entire planet about whether the shutdown menu should let you shut down?

    (I may be misremembering, maybe they wouldn't let you log out or put the computer to sleep or something stupid because their only concept of design is deleting features and creating backlogged tickets to reimplement the same function in a new "better" way)

    Personally I have experienced most of that too on desktop. I use Linux for my home servers (oops I used zfs cause everyone says it's good and better than btrfs and now the one dude who runs the arch zfs gitlab went awol so I haven't updated my arch computer in 5 months).