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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

    Ok, I'll bite. I tried Ubuntu a few months ago. Logging into Eduroam was a bit of a process, but eventually I figured it out and it worked. Then one day the internet didn't work and I had no idea why. Something to do with the network drivers. Then I was trying to use OpenOffice (or LibreOffice? The one that came with the OS), and I use Zotero for references. The Zotero plugin had a bunch of glitches that made me not trust it. The Internet (back on Windows) assured me that it worked fine, but it was way glitchier than the Windows version.

    The bottom line is that I just need this stuff to work because I don't have time to debug. I love the idea though; maybe I was using the wrong distro.

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

    Idk eduroam works fine on my thinkpad. Other than having to conf some files and not having to install random programs for basic functionality linux offers, its more reliable.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

    Yeah depending on your hardware things like that can still happen sometimes. I don't think it's a lot more common than on other OSes. It's especially not really usual for something as basic as network drivers to misbehave though, especially suddenly. For what it's worth, my experience trying to use Zotero on Windows on both MS word and LibreOffice writer was also a glitchy mess. Anyway, hope you try it again another time when you are under a bit less pressure and it works out better for you then.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Tried it again a few months ago when HDR support first dropped in KDE. It didn't work at all. Everything was desaturated and dim. Literally the opposite of what HDR is supposed to do.

    I'm giving it another year before I try Linux again. Hopefully the bugs are sorted by then.

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    [–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

    I stopped using Linux on my desktop PC in 2007. Last year I switched back, and wow everything is so much smoother now. Video, sound, webcam, networking, all worked perfectly out-of-the-box. No more messing with fglrx for hours to get ATI/AMD graphics working. No more figuring out ALSA vs OSS vs PulseAudio vs whatever else. I don't know what the sound subsystem is even called now, because I don't need to know. It just works.

    KDE is beautiful now, too. I tried a few desktop environments and liked KDE the best.

    Great time to switch. I've been using Linux on servers since 1999, but it's totally viable for desktops these days too.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

    The crazy thing is that it will always keep getting better.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

    Linux was ready for me 15 years ago.

    [–] [email protected] 44 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (6 children)

    The average 'advanced' window user: CLI is scary!

    Also the average 'advanced' windows user: if you open regedit and add this DWORD entry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Microsoft/application/windows/something, then you can stop Microsoft from screwing you, but it'll revert after each update so you gotta keep fixing it

    [–] MajorHavoc 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    Yeah. I've been spoiled by Linux for awhile, but sometime in the last few years, I realized I don't reach for the terminal on Linux anymore to configure anything (other than crazy bullshit I compiled from source code... I am still me, after all.)

    And Windows is still the usual level of pain, not amazing and not the worst... Well, I guess maybe now it really might be the worst, just because everything modern has gotten better.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

    The fact that I have to do combersome, confusing registry edits for simple changes on Windows sucks shit. I don't think I've ever once intuitively known where to change something, or the way to do it once.

    But it's normalized for the people who have to go find the one fine site out of dozens that will steal your info because they're afraid of learning something new in an era of ensuring no one learns new useful skills so it can be sold back to you.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    Linux user: Hey I made a PowerShell script for you that'll change the entry so you don't ha.... "advanced" Windows user: KEEP YOUR HACKER LOONIX AWAY FROM ME

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    But downloading a .reg file from some rando website is a-okay.

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    [–] [email protected] 60 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    Let's be real. Most people can't really use Windows, either. Anything harder than clicking the Chrome icon is beyond most users.

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