i followed a “install any linux distro in 5 minutes” guide and after just 14 hours i finally have an OS that is running properly
as a long time hater i must say its very nice and i like it a lot, especially considering microsoft is hellbent on making windows the worst OS as quickly as possible. i will say, im a big nerd and this stuff comes to me pretty easily but i still think hoping normies will adopt this is kinda insane
anywho, its the year of linux or so i keep hearing
also if anyone knows why my keyboard keeps disconnecting every 30 minutes or so, i would very much like to know why. its an anne pro 2 that i am using with a wired connection
Every Linux distro basically runs into the wall that is “all of these little problems require large institutional money to solve” which means that hobbyists and even the professional Linux distro teams like Red Hat stand no chance because they’re being compared to Microsoft and Apple. They can get a product that works really well don’t get me wrong, but the amount of time and effort to QA at the scale the major companies do for their OSes is on another level.
As somebody who uses Windows and iOS daily at work, I assure you these companies are not doing QA anywhere close to this level.
I mean they do both suck in their own special ways, but as a Linux user myself it’s still a night and day difference between the level they’re at and the level any given Linux distro is at. The only Linux devices that approach the level of “it just works” that MS and Apple devices do are locked down ones like phones, Chromebooks, and the Steam handheld.
These days, Windows 11 is a janky experience on par with your average Linux distro tbf. OOTB Windows 11 is terrible, which means dicking around with third party software and regedit, and even OOTB Windows 11 is janky compared with previous Windows iterations ime.
And the Linux distro usually comes with better documentation in order to fix problems, and changing settings is often equally or less difficult. Config files may look complicated and the terminal might really scare me sometimes, but at least it’s not the utterly inscrutable Windows Registry.
The QA happening here is real, but it is being done by the device manufacturers, not the OS developers.
2 biggest problems for linux distros are the newest hardware and nvidia cards no? is that what you’re referring to here?
I mean in terms of general usability. I switched to Linux like two years ago, at that time I had a mid-tier AMD machine with no brand new parts, and I still had to spend many, many hours troubleshooting issues that I simply wouldn’t have had if I was on Windows. Even now I’ll unexpectedly hit things that I expect to Just Work and end up spending all day figuring out why they don’t.
this has not really been my experience with linux outside of a laptop with an nvidia optimus gpu (shuddering just thinking about it), but i dont really game much on my laptop (desktop still windows cuz of anticheat) so i havent really been doing that much complicated stuff with them outside of self hosting a couple of servers, do you do video editing or something like that?