• @[email protected]
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    157 months ago

    Just install Linux already. Have any inevitable windows requirements? Run them in a VM until you can get rid of them. Fuck Microsoft and their bullshit

    • @f4te
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      437 months ago

      I dunno man, I recently put Mint onto my Lenovo and… the refinement just isn’t there STILL. dual monitor management isn’t very good, even mouse acceleration doesn’t play well when you go from the touchpad to an external mouse. Sure, many things have improved, but the fit and finish just isn’t even where windows was a decade ago…

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        I have dual monitors with different scaling and refresh rates, both work perfectly. Even VRR works as expected. I’m using Manjaro KDE with Wayland, Intel CPU, AMD GPU.

        Linux Mint hasn’t finished their work on Wayland and thus, the things you are experiencing are unfortunately expected. So you might want to try with another distro with GNOME or KDE.

        When people suggested you Mint, they were wrong in ignoring your setup.

        • @Aux
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          37 months ago

          That’s another issue with Linux: one thing works in distro X and another thing works in distro Y. OS should just work. Linux doesn’t.

          • @warmaster
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            Linux works. It’s only a Kernel.

            Android is also a linux distro. To you, it might seem as another OS. So from that point of view, each distro would be a dIfferent OS. So you should judge each distro as such.

            So, what people told you Linux is, in fact that Kernel on top of a ton other software.

            You can’t expect all distros to be the same. Because their purposes are different.

            • @Aux
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              87 months ago

              That’s not what people mean when saying “switch to Linux”.

              • @warmaster
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                They mean a Linux based OS, and say Linux for short. They could also say GNU/Linux, but chose not to. I do it every single time, but its for convenience, but technically imprecise.

                When we are talking about distributions being different, that’s their whole purpose, since their only common denominator is the underlying kernel.

                • @Aux
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                  -37 months ago

                  You’re just moving the conversion sideways. If you have nothing to say on the topic - move on.

      • bitwolf
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        67 months ago

        We’re you on Xorg? I think Mint still is by default?

        Recommend trying Fedora proper (with Gnome).

        Everything works perfectly except HDR (next release).

        Even multi monitor and hidpi. It’s polished and cohesive in its design. And if you want the windows 7 look you can use the dash to panel extension.

      • @Globulart
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        57 months ago

        I will never install Linux because I’ll never trust that it’ll be easier to use than windows, and that’s all I want.

        I can’t count the number of people that have told me I should be on Linux and that if I use Mint it’ll be a piece of perfect cake, despite me also seeing comments like this on a pretty regular basis.

        Why is it that so much of the community REFUSES to acknowledge any shortcomings? Almost like it’s their child and you’re personally attacking their parenting by suggesting its not flawlessly simple.

        • @[email protected]
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          47 months ago

          You know what, you’re absolutely right. I’m pretty steeped into the whole linux thing, but it really isn’t going to win any prizes for usability. If I need shit to work, I’ll boot into my windows partition. When I’m up for some tinkering fun, my GRUB defaults to Tumbleweed. It is not for everyone, despite what some neckbeards or snobs would lead people to believe.

      • oce 🐆
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        37 months ago

        Is it not good or is it different from your habitz? Haven’t had issues with those points on my Linuxes.

      • Cosmic Cleric
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        Try Fedora with KDE.

        In my opinion it’s the best one for having the most ease-of-use hardware support out of the box, as they’re backed by IBM, which used to own Lenovo.

    • @a_fancy_kiwi
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      127 months ago

      Anti-cheat is still a major issue. Even in a VM with GPU pass-through, anti-cheat will still prevent some popular games from running.

    • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑
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      As an artist, the hassle of running a VM can actually kill creative flow. Same with alternatives.

      People underestimate how much such a tiny can completely disrupt flow of thoughts, esp for creative works.

      It’s not even laziness either. It just “feels wrong”

    • @iamtherealwalrus
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      Running Visual Studio in a VM? No thanks, it is heavy enough as it is. And don’t say use VS Code or Rider. Saying “Just use some other software, so you can use Linux” defeats the entire argument that Linux can be used in place of Windows.

      Discord with virtual backgrounds for video calls? Yeah that’s not supported on Linux.

      • @olympicyes
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        If you’ve got two video cards, which is pretty much the case for anyone with an Intel cpu, then gpu pass through solves many problems. I really only use a Win10 VM for games and Adobe software plus one piece of work software. I think whether your overall point is valid or not depends on what you need Linux for and how much you still depend on Windows apps. To be honest the nicest piece of software available on Windows and not other apps is Nvidia Broadcast. You could use OBS to get your blurred background on Discord but that’s really too much work.

    • @[email protected]
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      Installed Mint. I needed quite a lot of work to make for example IDE configured CORRECTLY. (VSCodium on flatpak is a pain in the ass, don’t recommend). But aside of that, after small tweaks and customizations and I like it. I’ll make a point that I kad previous experience with Linux (PopOS/Mint/Ubuntu), although not a positive one. Now I’m seeing that being here is vastly better than windows, and ofc more concise. The backup system is nice, allows you to revert for example an update (which was important for my case cuz after major system update, fingerprint authentication on login screen was borked, and needed reinstall). Overall nice experience. It’s not perfect, but nothing is.

    • @Aux
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      Nothing works under Linux. And the list just just keeps growing.