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As someone who has used Linux almost exclusively on the desktop for the past 10 years, I recently bought a Windows laptop to use with Piano Marvel. I was aston

by xedrac 5y ago

As someone who has used Linux almost exclusively on the desktop for the past 10 years, I recently bought a Windows laptop to use with Piano Marvel. I was astonished at just how awful the Windows experience was. From the mandatory online user accounts, to the pre-installed garbage. Not to mention the in-your-face-constantly notifications, and forced updates. Using Linux feels unshackled and more polished.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
I would agree wholeheartedly with the former, but definitely not the latter. I keep going back to Windows because I'm sick of constantly dealing with all the little headaches that crop up whenever I use a Linux Desktop.
- fsflover 5y ago
  Which little headaches? Sounds like you are using hardware designed not for Linux if you have hardware problems.
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  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
    It is not just hardware problems. Hardware problems I can be understanding about because there are millions of devices out there and I can't reasonably expect all of them to be supported. No, there are plenty of software problems too. In a recent media PC build I couldn't get sound to work if a browser was launched from Kodi, even after several hours of faffing about with pulse. It wasn't hardware, the sound worked fine in Kodi. I frequently find myself in scenarios where I want to install software that is not in the repo (every distro has this problem). If there is no PPA or AppImage I will either have to hack up some other distro's package to make an appfolder version or build it from source myself in a VM. That's pretty annoying for something that's trivial in other OSs. OBS can't seem to remember the various video capture sources between reboots. To be fair to Linux there might be a viable way for it to do so[0], but it isn't using it. And a ton of other little things I've forgotten because they're so common to my experience of using Linux I don't bother to remember them. Elsewhere in this thread you can read that other people have the same death-by-a-thousand-cuts thing going on, it's very common. [0] I imagine using udev supplied device names or something instead of just what's under /dev/video.

by xedrac 5y ago

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago

I would agree wholeheartedly with the former, but definitely not the latter. I keep going back to Windows because I'm sick of constantly dealing with all the little headaches that crop up whenever I use a Linux Desktop.

fsflover 5y ago
Which little headaches? Sounds like you are using hardware designed not for Linux if you have hardware problems.
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- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
  It is not just hardware problems. Hardware problems I can be understanding about because there are millions of devices out there and I can't reasonably expect all of them to be supported. No, there are plenty of software problems too. In a recent media PC build I couldn't get sound to work if a browser was launched from Kodi, even after several hours of faffing about with pulse. It wasn't hardware, the sound worked fine in Kodi. I frequently find myself in scenarios where I want to install software that is not in the repo (every distro has this problem). If there is no PPA or AppImage I will either have to hack up some other distro's package to make an appfolder version or build it from source myself in a VM. That's pretty annoying for something that's trivial in other OSs. OBS can't seem to remember the various video capture sources between reboots. To be fair to Linux there might be a viable way for it to do so[0], but it isn't using it. And a ton of other little things I've forgotten because they're so common to my experience of using Linux I don't bother to remember them. Elsewhere in this thread you can read that other people have the same death-by-a-thousand-cuts thing going on, it's very common. [0] I imagine using udev supplied device names or something instead of just what's under /dev/video.