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I recently bought a new laptop and initially installed Linux (Ubuntu) on it, but then uninstalled it for the following reasons: - No 2-finger swipe for back/fo
by JSavageOne 4y ago
I recently bought a new laptop and initially installed Linux (Ubuntu) on it, but then uninstalled it for the following reasons:
- No 2-finger swipe for back/forward navigation in internet browsers. This is impossible on Linux since Linux doesn't support customizing 2-finger swipe. Sure I could set it on 3-finger swipe, but I wanted 2-finger swipe.
- Couldn't connect my Airpod Pro wireless headphones. Searching around it seemed to not be possible to connect the headphones with microphone.
There were a lot of annoying things I had to fix that work out of the box in Windows/Mac like the scroll speed in Chrome being way too slow (had to install a Chrome extension to fix). Googling solutions leads you somewhere like askubuntu.com which I found extremely unreliable - with often the highest upvoted answer not even answering the question, so you need to go through a bunch of different questions where people tell you to download some random dude's package that hasn't been updated in 5-10 years and doesn't even work.
Ultimately the dealbreakers combined with the general difficulty and hassle of doing basic things led me to uninstall it and go back to Windows (with Windows Subsystem for Linux). I really wanted to use a free open source operating system, but I didn't want to sacrifice on the above functionality and have to waste a lot of time fiddling with my computer just to get basic things working. Shame because there are a lot of things I don't like about Windows and it's not very customizable (eg. can't reduce size of taskbar on Windows 11 without hacky regedit update that cuts off the bottom of the toolbar, no way to alt-tab among same application windows in reverse order where it immediately switches to application. I have an AutoHotKey script that only partially works)
- NayamAmarshe 4y ago> - No 2-finger swipe for back/forward navigation in internet browsers. This is impossible on Linux since Linux doesn't support customizing 2-finger swipe. Sure I could set it on 3-finger swipe, but I wanted 2-finger swipe. I have a great replacement for this. I use ZorinOS with this: https://forum.zorin.com/t/how-to-better-touchpad-gestures-on-zorinos/13440 https://forum.zorin.com/t/how-to-better-touchpad-gestures-on... > - couldn't connect my airpod pro wireless headphones. searching around it seemed to not be possible to connect the headphones with microphone. Not sure about this tbh. I use Bluetooth earphones and they work great on Zorin. Zorin really makes things easier with all those pre-installed drivers and layouts and all the great UI enhancements. You can give it a try, Ubuntu was a massive disappointment for me as well. https://zorin.com/os https://zorin.com/os