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> but even the "user-friendly" Ubuntu is a pain to work with. Something as simple as changing the mouse scroll speed requires creating a bash script. Software u

> but even the "user-friendly" Ubuntu is a pain to work with. Something as simple as changing the mouse scroll speed requires creating a bash script. Software updates rarely work. There are random crashes that take hours to fix. You either have hardware problems, or something screwed up your install; the settings manager for mouse acceleration is available where all other settings are, no scripts or command line editing necessary, just a couple clicks and you're done. Now I'm not exactly a fan of Ubuntu and prefer other distros but software updates do actually work on Ubuntu, and I'm not aware of any problems that could cause random crashes. At least on Debian I lost memory of the last time I had to reset the machine due to a crash. Check your system, it may have software and/or hardware problems elsewhere.

jeroenhd 4y ago
This mouse setting depends on several factors (i.e. Wayland availability, evdev vs libinput) and the setting doesn't apply to every application if you do manage to change it. The modularity of the Linux ecosystem has several parties argue that it's not really their place to implement a fix, so issues get closed without a proper resolution. The updates are fine these days unless you add external repositories. Sadly, that's what every forum post and blog article will tell you to do. Rsndom crashes occur if your hardware has problematic drivers (Nvidia, sometimes Intel) and they're a mixed bag. Laptops are more of a problem than desktops but sometimes you just have bad luck. It can also depend on the kernel your distro chose because sometimes a lot of problems can be fixed by updating to a higher LTS version, but the end user should never even need to know this is an option let alone try it for themselves. Canonical and others also include their own kernel patches sometimes which is a whole lot of fun when it comes to reporting bugs.

jeroenhd 4y ago

This mouse setting depends on several factors (i.e. Wayland availability, evdev vs libinput) and the setting doesn't apply to every application if you do manage to change it. The modularity of the Linux ecosystem has several parties argue that it's not really their place to implement a fix, so issues get closed without a proper resolution. The updates are fine these days unless you add external repositories. Sadly, that's what every forum post and blog article will tell you to do. Rsndom crashes occur if your hardware has problematic drivers (Nvidia, sometimes Intel) and they're a mixed bag. Laptops are more of a problem than desktops but sometimes you just have bad luck. It can also depend on the kernel your distro chose because sometimes a lot of problems can be fixed by updating to a higher LTS version, but the end user should never even need to know this is an option let alone try it for themselves. Canonical and others also include their own kernel patches sometimes which is a whole lot of fun when it comes to reporting bugs.