If Linux users bother to settle on a desktop environment to actually polish and standardize, implement a good desktop application packaging system that allows you to install third party software easily, and make installation easier still, then maybe in 10 years.
I think the main barrier to better support is that it's only regular users that have to care about Windows 11 BS because corporations just buy the enterprise edition or whatever which lets you directly disable all the bad Windows features.
But I guess Ubuntu is probably the best choice given just how horrible Windows is, because it actually has the support of a company.
I mean I can't deny it's a bit annoying sometimes to set up. But like I honestly don't think any polished linux distro is more annoying than windows. People are just used to windows BS. Anyway pop_os is a great polished ubuntu version that is has a great installer and a company behind it
Something goes wrong on windows: oh well I'll find a workaround or just forget it.
Something goes wrong on linux: fuckin piece of shit linux can't do nothing right.
Well "more annoying" than Windows can easily become "unusable" if some thing that's available on Windows isn't available on Linux. I keep going back to the fact that I can't set the display scale on my Linux install on my laptop to 150% which is what it's at in Windows. Only options are 100% and 200% which is either too small or too large. And I can't change the mouse scroll speed either because he person who maintains the scroll speed code that Linux distros/desktop environments/whatever use doesn't think you should be able too :agony-shivering: And I don't think Ubuntu even has these options. Completely ridiculous clown stuff that exists because insufferable Linux nerds aren't human beings.
Humans don't think terminal shells are good user interfaces that are easy to understand. Maybe a robot might think that.
The workarounds for these things are usually mess with some random config file, or create some startup script that runs a command that hopefully changes the correct thing. In other words, always hacks that you'll have to write down in some notebook to make sure you can repeat the fix later. But part of the problem is operating system that rely on a pile of shell scripts and config files to work properly are fragile and bad. And part of it is that nobody is actually working on making it better it seems like.
Yes, desktop-Linux-obsessed people tend to ignore the shortcomings of Linux instead of acknowledging that one cannot simply "use Linux". Regular people can barely even use a desktop computer these days let alone one that shows a seizure-inducing boot log on every startup.
Surely this will be the year of linux on desktop.
Please
:tux:
If Valve successfully made every game in their platform Linux compatible then I might actually switch to Linux.
I recommend switching. The only games I have not been able to run on linux are microsoft game store exclusives. Halo mainly.
I barely play multiplayer games though and I think those have the most issues due to anticheat things.
yeah easy anti cheat added linux/proton compatibility but most devs havent added it. protondb has a list of which games are playable.
Gaming is easy, now Adobe, that's a huge headache.
If Linux users bother to settle on a desktop environment to actually polish and standardize, implement a good desktop application packaging system that allows you to install third party software easily, and make installation easier still, then maybe in 10 years.
I think the main barrier to better support is that it's only regular users that have to care about Windows 11 BS because corporations just buy the enterprise edition or whatever which lets you directly disable all the bad Windows features.
But I guess Ubuntu is probably the best choice given just how horrible Windows is, because it actually has the support of a company.
I mean I can't deny it's a bit annoying sometimes to set up. But like I honestly don't think any polished linux distro is more annoying than windows. People are just used to windows BS. Anyway pop_os is a great polished ubuntu version that is has a great installer and a company behind it
Something goes wrong on windows: oh well I'll find a workaround or just forget it.
Something goes wrong on linux: fuckin piece of shit linux can't do nothing right.
Well "more annoying" than Windows can easily become "unusable" if some thing that's available on Windows isn't available on Linux. I keep going back to the fact that I can't set the display scale on my Linux install on my laptop to 150% which is what it's at in Windows. Only options are 100% and 200% which is either too small or too large. And I can't change the mouse scroll speed either because he person who maintains the scroll speed code that Linux distros/desktop environments/whatever use doesn't think you should be able too :agony-shivering: And I don't think Ubuntu even has these options. Completely ridiculous clown stuff that exists because insufferable Linux nerds aren't human beings.
I had exactly the same problems as you described and was going to give you my workarounds, but
Fuck off. You sound like a god damned nazi.
Humans don't think terminal shells are good user interfaces that are easy to understand. Maybe a robot might think that.
The workarounds for these things are usually mess with some random config file, or create some startup script that runs a command that hopefully changes the correct thing. In other words, always hacks that you'll have to write down in some notebook to make sure you can repeat the fix later. But part of the problem is operating system that rely on a pile of shell scripts and config files to work properly are fragile and bad. And part of it is that nobody is actually working on making it better it seems like.
:PIGPOOPBALLS:
Yes, desktop-Linux-obsessed people tend to ignore the shortcomings of Linux instead of acknowledging that one cannot simply "use Linux". Regular people can barely even use a desktop computer these days let alone one that shows a seizure-inducing boot log on every startup.
Look if you start calling people subhuman you don't deserve tech support form them.