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I'm not really proud of this, but I never really found a Linux OS (or BSD) that "just worked". Maybe I'm too picky, but just being able to resize windows dynami

I'm not really proud of this, but I never really found a Linux OS (or BSD) that "just worked". Maybe I'm too picky, but just being able to resize windows dynamically should be out-of-the-box. Ever since Windows steered away from Balmer and WSL and other things happened... I'm really comfortable in Windows. It's polished and offers all the Linux I need.

0xffff2 7y ago
I agree with Linux, but I'm surprised to see anyone call modern Windows "polished". Late editions of Windows XP were polished. Windows 10 is a pile of untested junk. Things break all the time. Things rely on an internet connection for no good reason all the time. Baked in, impossible to disable telemetry. I put up with it, but only because none of my corporate software works on Linux.
- gfiorav 7y ago
  I don’t really have that experience. I do leave everything on defaults and use all terminal tools to program (editing too) so I guess I’m not really asking much of it
  - modo_mario 7y ago
    Try to do some system management and you'll often realize the steaming pile of shit under the fancy looking hood. Sudden changes to SMB configuration after updates bringing issues that differ not by version after the updates but by version of when they were first installed... and all of a sudden there's a bug with NTLMv2 and what have you, etc, etc
Insanity 7y ago
What do you mean with resizing windows dynamically? Ever since windows 10 I found the default behaviour annoying on windows. Window management seems so much better to me on Linux than Windows, but indeed not out-of-the-box.
- gfiorav 7y ago
  It’s just comical to me how difficult it is to click on the corner of a window in most of not all desktop environments... the only diestro that has it right is Ubuntu
beart 7y ago
I'm back on Linux again after years on Windows 10. It is far far better than in the past but still full of small annoyances. For example, there are two settings for mouse sensitivity (acceleration speed and acceleration delay) but neither of these will actually disable acceleration completely and I see no good way to adjust the sensitivity itself without searching for some unknowable settings in some unknowable dot file. Another issue that I had years ago still causing problems is the inability to move a secondary monitor to the left of my primary without every application defaulting to open on the secondary. I also tried connecting to a blue tooth game pad (Xbox one). It would only stay connected if I changed one of those mystery settings again, and even after that the inputs didn't actually work. This is especially frustrating because I can even plug a small USB adapter into my switch and have instant compatability with the same game pad.
- gfiorav 7y ago
  Exactly! What districts do you think is best? I’m becoming a default-person and Ubuntu default is usually the best for me. My current setup is windows and Debian WSL, although I do use in-terminal editors so I don’t really suffer any of the Linux-windows integration woes

0xffff2 7y ago

I agree with Linux, but I'm surprised to see anyone call modern Windows "polished". Late editions of Windows XP were polished. Windows 10 is a pile of untested junk. Things break all the time. Things rely on an internet connection for no good reason all the time. Baked in, impossible to disable telemetry. I put up with it, but only because none of my corporate software works on Linux.

gfiorav 7y ago
I don’t really have that experience. I do leave everything on defaults and use all terminal tools to program (editing too) so I guess I’m not really asking much of it
- modo_mario 7y ago
  Try to do some system management and you'll often realize the steaming pile of shit under the fancy looking hood. Sudden changes to SMB configuration after updates bringing issues that differ not by version after the updates but by version of when they were first installed... and all of a sudden there's a bug with NTLMv2 and what have you, etc, etc

Insanity 7y ago

What do you mean with resizing windows dynamically? Ever since windows 10 I found the default behaviour annoying on windows. Window management seems so much better to me on Linux than Windows, but indeed not out-of-the-box.

gfiorav 7y ago
It’s just comical to me how difficult it is to click on the corner of a window in most of not all desktop environments... the only diestro that has it right is Ubuntu

beart 7y ago

I'm back on Linux again after years on Windows 10. It is far far better than in the past but still full of small annoyances. For example, there are two settings for mouse sensitivity (acceleration speed and acceleration delay) but neither of these will actually disable acceleration completely and I see no good way to adjust the sensitivity itself without searching for some unknowable settings in some unknowable dot file. Another issue that I had years ago still causing problems is the inability to move a secondary monitor to the left of my primary without every application defaulting to open on the secondary. I also tried connecting to a blue tooth game pad (Xbox one). It would only stay connected if I changed one of those mystery settings again, and even after that the inputs didn't actually work. This is especially frustrating because I can even plug a small USB adapter into my switch and have instant compatability with the same game pad.

gfiorav 7y ago
Exactly! What districts do you think is best? I’m becoming a default-person and Ubuntu default is usually the best for me. My current setup is windows and Debian WSL, although I do use in-terminal editors so I don’t really suffer any of the Linux-windows integration woes