Linux

I'm now completely free from Windows in my personal life. After running Linux on my notebook for years and occasionally dual-booting on my Main PC, I purged the Windows partitions back in March and switched over to Bazzite. Everything works like a charm - with Firefox being the only exception. I can't get the new profile manager to work in the flatpak version or native via rpm-ostree. I have a workaround using distroshelf, which is not perfect (e.g. not being recognised as a browser by the "Webapps" application) I never had any problem with this feature on my Notebook (EndeavourOS). Anyone with similar experiences?

Not on the kernel itself, just a minor bug that got fixed in the next release but could still choose the older kernel until then. OOM sounds like a bad idea when running out of memory - let the user chose what program to stop and handle it gracefully. Picking random process is bad. Others? DRM video at 1080p does not work on raspberry pi and it is not Linux fault really. Transition between X11 and Wayland took a long time to happen. Needed it earlier. Like before Ubuntu MIR. What impressed me is Linux and live cd. It is golden. Be able to surf the web while installing or just troubleshooting. Tiling Windows Manager and you can do whatever you want and customization.

I'm going to make the switch but I find the sheer number of distros overwhelming. I only know unbunto, but everyone says it's shit. Just gotta do research.

Yeah. Ive managed to make it work now, but when I was starting off with installing Linux, my audio was broken and all sorts of other basic functions were broken. Headphones would work but laptop speakers wouldn't. I had to restart all over several times after already installing everything I needed, just because some stupid niche (but important) thing was broken. Never had these issues when doing fresh installs of windows. I'm still very much on the "team" of Linux though, I just hope that it becomes a large enough part of the market that drivers for hardware are faster to come out.

I first used it in the '90s so a resounding yes.

More recently, trying to get video editing software to work properly and not break as soon as I upgrade was the one. Also I couldn't get a bunch of HAM stuff working properly on Mint and I just don't have time to throw at it.

Yes, in 1995, I was very disappointed that red hat 2.0 made me compile my own goddamn disk images before I had to write them to floppy. Which took several days on my 486SX 25 MHz processor, and that’s after almost a week I spent downloading all of the damn source code on a 28.8 baud modem. 7 disks, 13 if you wanted printer drivers. At least it had a somewhat helpful installer, not that it was capable of helping with much.

It wasn’t until red hat 2.5 that they started distributing pre-compiled disk images

Edit: tbf, nobody else did at the time, and at least red hat was one of the first start distributing it software in packages (rpm) like debian (deb), although both soon began offering software pre-compiled as they noticed people other than software developers were beginning to use Linux, and there was legitimate demand to put in the effort. By late 1995 in early 1996, pre-compiled install disks were available for both red hat, Debian, and SuSE for x86, RISC, and DEC/ALPHA, IIRC. It took a while for Slackware to come around.

All the time. I run both windows and linux desktops side by side windows is leaps and bounds better as a desktop idk what people are talking about they must only browse the web if they think this shit competes with windows at all. Im disappointed in windows too but it's not the same there isn't people claiming it is the best thing ever so there is not as high expectations. And just to clarify I have been using linux since I was little it isn't some foreign thing to me. Look at all these comments "great BUT" yea the buts are why it isn't great.