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The second issue was too blatant, I knew I was getting the old 4chan bait and switch
I just got banned from a community called Linux sucks this morning π what a weird community! Like if you don't like Linux just don't use it? People are so strange
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The built in "app stores" that come on Linux distros are also complete jokes, the ones I've tried to use anyways.
Not a fan of KDE Discover. Bazaar looks promising.
Snap store can get the hell outta here.
Oh good. I fucking hate the snap store and thought it was my incompetence making it terrible, but here's at least one other
Discover is ok... If you limit it to only managing Flatpaks.
I'm not sure I'd ever trust a GUI to manage pacman/apt/dnf
I think Flatpaks are the future for general user installed apps. It's way more secure and user friendly for non tech people. I've even had some flatpaks run significantly better, like Brave, despite conventional wisdom saying otherwise for a browser.
I'm gonna be honest, 99% of what I need to do, I do through Discover. Like, why would I bother typing a command out when the update button is right there.
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I feel like he's gonna get banned for posting this on that subreddit lmao
He 100% going to be banned, I was banned with doing nothing wrong there. The mods there are bit crazy
I'm glad I got banned from r/linuxsucks101 before I got perma-banned from reddit
i remember windows not having drivers for wireless and wired networking and requiring an internet connection to install.
had to find a usb ethernet adapter to install. absolute insanityβ¦
Yeah I clocked the twist halfway through, Linux isn't perfect but most are simply not Linux issues.
The only reason windows file explorer opens in sub 3 seconds is because it's bundled with the desktop and taskbar.
itβs all systemD fault!
Haven't used Windows in a hot minute, do you actually have to install WLAN drivers manually there?
It gets worse. For some reason InTune managed machines I deploy at work don't even work HARDWIRED. It only works if you use a USB C to Ethernet adapter. No, it is not missing an Ethernet port. It just doesn't work for absolutely no reason. I just did a remote InTune training, and had to download drivers from Dell's website, extract the exe (lol), put it on a flash drive, and install it manually before I could even log into Windows.
No, the windows updater usually grabs them just fine.
But if you do a clean install using the image from microsoft, then it's very likely it won't have a working wifi driver until you run updates. Which you know... it needs the internet to do.
That pissed me so off, when i had to reinstall a bunch of notebooks at work... they didn't even have an ethernet port, so i had to dig out some docking station from the trash pile in the server room.
most network and wifi chips made before the spin of windows are supported by built-in drivers.
not the case for most new hardware, especially laptops. Sure you get a cheap laptop and its probably gonna be fine but an enterprise laptop with the latest and greatest.... totally a coin flip
I have had to deal with it on so many models in recent years its not even funny. (IT system admin who never uses the default install of Windows)
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If you don't have an Ethernet connection, fairly regularly
It's at least better than the Vista days where it didn't even have an Ethernet driver consistently, and you had to download your Ethernet driver from another computer π€·ββοΈ
When I tried to install Windows 10 2 years ago on my mini PC it tried to install wifi drivers but failed. Wifi only worked after manually downloading and installing the driver. Various Linux distros were plug and play and wifi worked out of the box.
'works on my machine' -one of the most ignorant arguments.
The same model Motherboards can have different sound, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth chips.
You're trusting unsigned, reverse engineered, and amateur developed drivers in ring 0 which can possibly damage your hardware and firmware.
It's not something to casually recommend people do.
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