Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux and FOSS. I have been using and installing distros on my own since I was 12. Now that I’m working in tech-related positions, after the Reddit migration happened, etc. I recovered my interest in all the Linux environment. I use Ubuntu as my main operating system in my Desktop, but I always end up feeling very limited. There’s always software I can’t use properly (and not just Windows stuff), some stuff badly configured with weird error messages… last time I was not able to even use the apt command. Sometimes I lack time and energy for troubleshooting and sometimes I just fail at it.

I usually end up in need of redoing a fresh install until it breaks up again. Maybe Linux is not good for beginners working full time? Maybe we should do something like that Cisco course that teaches you the basic commands?

    • Cypher@lemmy.world
      19·
      1 year ago

      On the flip side try to get Linux to play back audio at above 48,000 Hz without breaking absolutely everything that isn’t already at the desired sample rate.

      In Windows it is 5 clicks.

        • Cypher@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 year ago

          Attacking people because there are valid criticisms of Linux, which you haven’t refuted at all, shows how utterly stupid you are.

          Yes there are valid criticisms of Windows. No that does not give you a pass to attack people who use it, they have made their own choice.

          One device, which you admit works with the correct drivers, doesn’t remotely compare to a glaring flaw with audio that I can find first mentioned in 2002 still impacting Linux today.

        • meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          1 year ago

          It goes both ways, that’s what Windows plebs don’t understand. All the issues Windows plebs …

          Does it make you a patrician to use Linux? Are you a father figure now to society?

          We plebeians are just waiting on your glory to shine upon us, o high one.

      • aski3252@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        The few times a have some minor issue on linux, it is probably audio related or related to working with multiple different screens with different refresh rates, resolutions, etc, so you probably have a point.

        However, I did have various issues with audio and multiple screens on windows as well, I would say even more frequently. However, on windows those issues were generally resolved after a restart, on linux I actually had to do some troubleshooting.

    • Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Try something simple in Windows like setting custom keyboard shortcuts… insanely frustrating.

      You can set macro’s under Mouse and Keyboard center (though only in win11, welcome to 1995 Microsoft!) You can set a keyboard shortcut for a program under a shortcut’s properties (since at least a couple of editions ago).

    • vaidooryam@mastodon.sdf.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      @somedaysoon @Cypher MS powertools allows some of those stuff, though not nearly as well. AHK is every easy to setup and get into even compared to some of the linux equivalents.

      It goes either ways and one needs to find the way to make it work on either system. Often she exact same approach might not work in both.