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I'm interested to know what breaks in the Linux desktop experience. I've been using Linux exclusively as a desktop environment at home for 5 years or more and
by BLKNSLVR 2y ago
I'm interested to know what breaks in the Linux desktop experience.
I've been using Linux exclusively as a desktop environment at home for 5 years or more and my primary pain point is kernel updates breaking DisplayLink, via a docking stattion I use for multiple monitors. I now have a specific command line that rolls back the kernel to the previous version, and then I wait for updated DisplayLink drivers.
It's a pain, but it's still (much!) better than the circles of hell that Windows has been putting users through since Windows 7.
Strangely, the Windows laptop provided by my work just stopped being able to pipe audio through the speakers plugged into the docking station. Which feels like Windows "doing a Linux". The tables are turning?
- bigstrat2003 2y agoI don't think that I've ever had an issue like that on Windows. Their business practices with the ads and whatnot are awful, but the drivers and hardware work very, very well. Honestly even as a pretty knowledgeable person I don't consider your situation to be acceptable, much less someone who isn't knowledgeable. "You have to roll back the kernel" is just not reasonable to expect of people.