• @f4te
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    431 year 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…

    • @warmaster
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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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        31 year 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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            81 year 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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                -31 year ago

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

    • bitwolf
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      61 year 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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      51 year 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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        41 year 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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      31 year 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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      -11 year ago

      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.