I’m sure no one in this community needs to be convinced to try Linux. But I love it every time I see a non-Linux person trying Linux and showing other people that it works. (Also nice to see that Jeff Gerstmann is still around and doing alright after getting screwed over by Gamespot for like 15 years.)
Ignore these guys. I’m on bazzite. I write kubernetes code in go/rust all day. IE a giant ass nerd Linux contributor.
Still a buggy mess. Bluetooth doesn’t work oy motherboard, display doesn’t work if I turn off the display, and I need to run scripts on boot to enable my audio on every boot.
Despite improvements from valve over the past few years, it’s not ready for normies and these nerds will gaslight you all day.
You ain’t dumb, this shit is a mess. Many times by design.
I would sooner commit sudoku than ever do anything Kubernetes, and yet shit basically just works for me. Nothing is perfect, but it’s 5x better than Windows, so I’m never going back. It seems the server and desktop Linux experience doesn’t quite transfer and apply that much between each other.
I’m not denying your experience to be clear. But for some people it really does work all well. Multi-monitor handling on KDE is so superior for me that I don’t know how I ever dealt with whatever Windows was doing
> But for some people
Yes a minority of them when specific hardware either though purchasing specific shit or dumb luck.
I can’t even use my second monitor because they both break off I have DP and HDMI in use at the same time.
I will say I have one funny regression with my HDMI monitor where it sometimes goes blank for a bit when app goes full-screen on another monitor or right after wake-up. I laugh at this, because it’s still a superior experience, and the kernel version that introduced this, fixed another quirk. Because the problem isn’t with Linux here, but that this monitor has a broken ass firmware. And it resets itself after waking up from sleep or changing inputs, I had problems with this under Windows too, and other monitors don’t do this. But I’m not going to point fingers at wrong direction, plus current state of things doesn’t bother me. Same cannot be said about Windows, where another one of my monitors would randomly reset itself from time to time, which would cause the screen to remove itself from the system and cause the whole system to get 1-2 minute long aneurysm (hope you weren’t gaming during that, especially a multiplayer game…). Meanwhile if that thing happens to this monitor on Linux, simply nothing happens and I don’t even notice it.
Sooo maybe it’s dumb luck that shit works better or just as well on Linux. But it’s real. I didn’t buy anything specifically for Linux, other than always sticking to AMD and avoiding NVIDIA, because I’ve long despised the latter. My whole system works great, the laptop I randomly purchases (AMD-based) works great, my parents’ laptop works great, my grandma’s computer works great, my work machine works great (well certainly much better than on Windows, though it’s not a powerful machine), my friend-with-NVIDIA’s computer works great (surprisingly), my other friend’s computer works great (after figuring out how to install Arch; also with a broken monitor firmware suffering btw), his girlfriend’s computer also works great.
Maybe it’s actually dumb misfortune for those who have problems or some terribly obscure hardware. Maybe I live in some great lucky bubble where things work for the most part around me. Hard to tell which group is a majority and which isn’t.
I do have the fingerprint reader on my laptop not working, that’s unfortunate, but I forgot it’s even a thing, since I never had one on another machine anyway. That same poor laptop got a bunch of 1-star reviews on the store’s website for “poor work culture” just because Windows 11 at setup or idle would ramp up its fans to 100% for no reason, this never happens on Linux unless maybe I actually intentionally hammer it with something. It’s crazy.
Okay one thing I’ll have to admit, about one actual thing not working well, oh irony: my Steam Deck is the only device that has some huge problems with my Wi-Fi router. Just that device out of like 20 others. And just with that router. Drat. I’ll have to see if the next major OpenWrt version will improve it.
Aaaaanyway, can you tell me more about the DP+HDMI problem? I’m actually somewhat curious. And what GPU do you have. I’m wondering if it’s related to anything I’ve ever seen, or something else entirely.
The censorship is internalized
I thought they were just saying they’d rather solve puzzles ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same outcome, at the limit
It baffles me how a lot of people in the Linux bubble are simultaneously massive gatekeepers and annoyed when Windows people don’t love Linux. A lot of replies to my comment is essentially “Well, this distro is not for noobs. Have you tried not being an idiot?” They don’t realize how condescending and arrogant they sound. I didn’t take computer science classes at university, and I shouldn’t have to in order to be able to use an operating system that is not Windows, but doesn’t take more time solving problems than doing the stuff that I actually purchased my hardware for.
Sp3ter put on a fine display.
Yep. The community is its own worst enemy with usability. There was a discussion on how guis were terrible and shouldn’t be needed. In 2026. Baffling.