I read エロゲ and haunt AO3. I’ve been learning Japanese for far too long. I like GNOME, KDE, and Sway.

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Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.spacetoLinux@lemmy.ml•I'm Done With Windows, Are you?
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    10 months ago

    Is not it true with Windows? Plug and play? And while I did not study this, I strongly suspect that it is more true for Windows than for Linux.

    I don’t use Windows much, but recently I booted it up and found my graphics tablet didn’t work. I needed to install a driver from Wacom, then reboot. It got very confused about whether my tablet or my monitor was the primary monitor, and moving between screens was somehow worse than Linux. On Linux, the tablet driver worked out of the box, but I had to adjust display scaling for both my monitors to co-exist peacefully. I also had to switch from GNOME to KDE and switch to Wayland on my NVIDIA card to get Krita to work properly (interface was split across both monitors and couldn’t resize it). GNOME’s multi-monitor handling was bad, regardless of whether I used Wayland or X11. Multi-monitor handling on KDE was better than Windows…in the end.

    I’m not really sure which of these is worse.

  • Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.spacetoLinux@lemmy.ml•What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
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    11 months ago

    Anything that isn’t Arch.

    • Ubuntu’s package managers won’t stop fighting with each other so I can’t complete an upgrade easily. Also, I hate apt. Trusting prebuilt binaries from PPAs seems a little dangerous to me compared to trusting build scripts in the AUR, so I don’t feel comfortable with that. I do like it otherwise, though.
    • Linux Mint is fine, I guess, but no Wayland yet and I don’t like Cinnamon. Same PPA issues. Has some more outdated packages than Ubuntu.
    • openSUSE is great, but the package managers won’t stop fighting with each other and it’s lacking a few packages. I like the Open Build System a lot less than the AUR.
    • Fedora is fine, while missing some packages, but it broke on me after a week and I had no idea how to fix it so I stopped using it.
    • Pop_OS makes everything about GNOME worse.
    • Debian’s packages are too old.
    • Manjaro is more work than Arch and the packages are out of sync with the AUR.
    • The packages I want aren’t in Solus. Is this distro even still around?

    And for distros I won’t consider trying:

    • Gentoo is too much work.
    • Qubes is too much work and I can’t play games on it.
    • I don’t like any of the ZorinOS modifications and the packages are old.