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Linux has been pain-free for me this year. Ubuntu Budgie and Pop!_OS distros feel polished to me now on my desktop. With Budgie I don't do any config at all. I
by appleiigs 8y ago
Linux has been pain-free for me this year. Ubuntu Budgie and Pop!_OS distros feel polished to me now on my desktop. With Budgie I don't do any config at all. I did do about 15 mins of config with Pop and got it looking and set up exactly how I like it. Settled on Pop as my daily driver.
For a laptop, been using a $300 chromebook. With Crostini I get all my linux apps that I use hassle free. I also use Google Docs and Sheets and Bitbucket for my personal stuff - I switch between my laptop and desktop seamlessly. I use my work Citrix if have to work from home (eg. MS Office).
Nothing on my Mac that I miss.
- marrone12 8y agoThat's cool. I have a small (11") windows laptop that I put Ubuntu on and it took me a bit to have all the display settings to work properly, especially with HiDPI and weird scaling. Nothing ever looked quite right for me. I had a chromebook for a bit and I really loved it but felt too uneasy with Google having 100% supervision over all of my internet activities.
- appleiigs 8y agoYes, dealing with HiDPI is one of the configs I did have to do. I have Pop on another laptop and I kept scaling at 100%, but increased font size by 1.5x via gnome-tweaks. Annoying to have to do it, but it's a one time adjustment and doesn't look frankenstein to me. The 1.5x font adjustment is just one input box via settings tab - not messing with terminal. I've made peace with the google privacy issues. The convenience made me more pragmatic instead of idealistic, but I hear you.