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Have you ever been disappointed with Linux? (libretechni.ca)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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Personally I haven't. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it's whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.

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[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Been using linux for more than 10 years as a less technical user, and yeah pretty regularly.

Its still my OS of choice, but theres a fair bit of jank around the corners you interact with less and places where the GUI methods for things just kinda fall short.

But I like having an OS that shows me tech treating me with dignity and respect is possible. So many problems in this world are hard to know how we might solve, but technology that treats me justly is a thing I can have today, and given its actually able to meet my needs, thats pretty cool ☺️❤️

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

There's an insane amount of jank people are just used to with windows that blends into the background since that's just the way it is. I notice it more and more at work. Simple things like quality of life features just don't exist in windows, and the usual reasons are:

A) backwards compatibility jank

B) we're a monopoly, get fucked

C) fuck you! that's why.

And there's simply no way to circumvent it. At least on Linux I have multiple solutions typically since I am person # 9431007 to have this exact problem, and someone deeper into the autism spectrum than me made a FOSS solution to it.