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I am well past 10,000 hours of waste on this one. Still, I vastly prefer it due to the greater ability to customise my graphical environment based on my own pr
by oftenwrong 6y ago
I am well past 10,000 hours of waste on this one.
Still, I vastly prefer it due to the greater ability to customise my graphical environment based on my own preferences and ergonomic needs. The biggest advantage for me is being able to choose my own window manager. I use bspwm + sxhkd now, which I haven't quite mastered, but has allowed me to choose how it works, rather than forcing me to adopt its own vision.
I even split my time between a MacBook Pro and my Linux laptop for ~4 years just to try it out. OS X is almost hassle-free, and relatively well-designed, but not as openly customisable.
The biggest time sinks on desktop Linux for me have been the usual suspects:
- graphics
- monitors
- sound
- poor battery life
- wifi (although I have not had issues since I adopted iwd)
- sleep/hibernate (or rather, awakening from them reliably, 100% of the time)
- and, of course, having to deal with outsiders who expect you to have things like Adobe Acrobat, and then you have to find a workaround or go to the library to use a Windows box.
I admit that some of these are self-inflicted, and would likely not be a problem if I just used something like Ubuntu in its default setup.