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Meanwhile Ubuntu on my XPS 13 decided to accidentally break wifi by installing 2 network managers. Why are there even 2 of those in the first place (of course i
by kllrnohj 5y ago
Meanwhile Ubuntu on my XPS 13 decided to accidentally break wifi by installing 2 network managers. Why are there even 2 of those in the first place (of course it's not actually just 2, there's way more than that!)? Do people really want choice in network managers? Because I sure as heck don't.
Sometimes customization is useful. But Linux goes way, way too far, and the result is a system that never really meshes quite right as all the core systems can't be relied upon to be a consistent base system. Like X11 vs. Wayland - GUI apps need to support multiple compositors because of a ridiculous situation, adding complexity to the stack. Or the systemd battle, where again there's a fundamental system that should have all sorts of robust tools & UIs built on top of it that just doesn't because again there's customization where there really doesn't need to be.
Audio is almost not a joke on Linux anymore with things kinda standardizing around pipewire, although that's because it's just taking on the burden of supporting all the various APIs from all the various systems that didn't need to all exist itself.
You know what I also never have to worry about on my Windows machine? Whether or not hardware video decoding is supported & working or not.
- ranguna 5y agoYes I want customization with network managers. Personally I use iwd because of its simplicity, last time I checked, there are a lot of people that use network-manager instead (it's also default on a lot of distros).