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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Been using Ubuntu on my desktop for a couple of years, following a couple years use of WSL (so I'm very comfortable using the terminal etc)

Off the top of my head, some of the stuff I ran into almost immediately:

  • the package manager has been essentially unusable - the home page will work okay, but trying to view or install any applications through it, it just hangs forever. So I just go and use apt-get, but that's not what I'd call 'easier' or 'just works'

  • Firefox windows regularly break - the contents of the page still work fine but I can't resize or move the window, have to close it and open a new one. This happens multiple times a day

  • only way I could get the discord app installed was with a .deb (since the package manager didn't work), so as soon as it's out of date I just get a message saying "you need to update". So I have to use it in the browser

  • speaking of discord - I like to use push to talk. Guess what, push to talk is impossible with Wayland. Supposedly this is a feature, not a bug

  • also couldn't get vnc working to remote home while travelling, due to Wayland. Maybe if I persisted with troubleshooting I could have got it to work, but it took me 30s on windows.

  • installed zoom - it won't launch from the gui, I have to launch it from the terminal. Also, 'join this meeting' web links don't work, I have to copy paste them into the app

There's plenty more quirks I run into all the time but thats just shit I run into with a clean install and very typical hardware.

I love interacting with Linux through the terminal - I hate interacting with it through a gui. That's not my definition of easier lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not my Kubuntu experience, and sounds like something broke.

Which can happen with Windows too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Have you tried just downloading the app image off of websites and running it that way? Most windows users don’t use the windows repos

I’ve had no issues with Firefox or discord but I don’t use wayland