ITT: post the little things you miss after switching to Linux
>Battery life over 4 hours
>Non-blurry fonts
>Working webcam
ITT: post the little things you miss after switching to Linux. >Battery life over 4 hours. >Non-blurry fonts
ITT: post the little things you miss after switching to Linux
>Battery life over 4 hours
>Non-blurry fonts
>Working webcam
Being able to use my brother printer/scanner hybrid.
Need a win 10 VM just for that
>ability to disable mouse acceleration
stop using GNOME
gnome does it, AND it doesn't look like it was designed by a jeet!
what gnome version do you run?
i can acess those settings via dconf but there is no such gui on 42.5
my OS begging me to set up an online account
Ads and asking me not one not two, but three (!) security questions. For my the password on my PC. Are you fucking kidding me?
>working monitor+TV setup
>VR support
>working Bluetooth
>working card reader
>SMB shares that I don't have to configure for a day
>keyboard/mouse with non-standard buttons (volume wheel)
Pretty much any of my peripherals working, except primary monitor, 2 mouse buttons + wheel, and 100ish buttons on my keyboard.
>SMB shares that I don't have to configure for a day
i spent about 4 days figuring out the 10 lines of changes i needed to make to smb.conf, been working a treat since but boy did it make me work for it lol
Commercial pro grade software
>working Bluetooth
>working card reader
>SMB shares that I don't have to configure for a day
>keyboard/mouse with non-standard buttons (volume wheel)
I want to know what meme distro you're using that doesn't support these things; every one I've used lets you pick a KB from a list. As for file sharing, if you can't edit a smb.conf go back to Windows.
And you fucking learned something that's useful.
>easy Onedrive sync
Yeah that one sucks.
>be able to thumbnail .zip archives with the first image inside.
On MacOS I have to use a comic book reader application to pick an archive's thumbnail image, this ought to be an OS feature.
>I want to know what meme distro you're using
Ubuntu and Elementary OS. Out of the box, I couldn't get my monitor+TV to output the same image at 2x scale. Logitech G915 keyboard, G Pro wireless mouse; can't remember the exact issue I was having, I gave up quickly because it was my 10th time trying Linux and I know how it always ends up (days spent setting up, before giving up and returning to Windows). I don't think it's impossible to get most of these things to work, but in Windows I don't need to do any configuration, and I especially don't need to look anything up on some forums. I develop primarily for Linux, but it's hard to use it as primary desktop, especially since I can use WSL, which works much better than Wine (which is understandable, with Windows having decades worth of syscalls just for UI rendering).
>I develop primarily for Linux
what, PHP scripts?
I've never had any distro fuck up with BT, fail to recognize the card reader (a basic USB port), and there's usually a utility to configure the KB (often ncurses but it's there). Setting up SMB even has a GNOME utility for the retarded.
>what, PHP scripts?
PHP, Go, JS, Bash (but also need Python/C/Java/C# build tools); most of it works better on Unix. I don't want to use Windows, I'll keep trying Linux, but won't keep my hopes up too much.
Honestly can't remember the issue with BT, I might have gotten it to work. As for the card reader, it's some government software that requires Windows (doesn't work in Wine) so I can pay taxes, so that's a bit of an issue for me. KB/mouse configuration was low on my priority list, I gave up before getting to it.
Right now, it's just easier to do everything Linux can do on Windows, than vice-versa. Tools like Tensorflow are dropping support for Windows, because WSL is performant enough. Linux still has all the potential, but it's still hard to see it as my primary work&play machine.
Wsl works far worse than wine in my experience for anything graphical
>And you fucking learned something that's useful.
Not him, but this is wrong. I will never remember what I did, and I'm not trying to be a sysadmin. I learned nothing when I set it up. It was just a pain in the ass.
This. Everything I “learned” on Linux doesn’t even last because shit changes so often it’s not worth committing to memory. Then you get blamed for fucking something up because you forgot to read the developers mind 2.3 seconds ago.
>random involuntary restarts to "install updates"
font rendering that doesn't make me want to gouge my eyes out after more than an hour of work
easy shared folders
easy Onedrive sync
granted hardware acceleration
Being the latter what I miss the most, I do have automated all the necessary setup for gardware acceleration to work but on Windows you just install the driver for whatever gpu you have and that's it.
>easy Onedrive sync
https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive
>nvidia super res in VLC
>software compatibility
now I have to fuck around with first trying different versions of open sores alternatives, then after realizing they all suck try to get it working in wine, and then finally dedicate a VM for it upon realization that wine is still a barely functioning piece of shit
The only thing I miss is to be able to thumbnail .zip archives with the first image inside.
>Working webcam
mpv /dev/video0
it just werks
the only thing i miss is software, and most of all video game, compatibility
everything else is just better
Being able to do a major version upgrade in place instead of being told to reinstall from scratch because dist-upgrade is fucked
>extremely annoying to do local file sharing
>remote control from another PC being an enterprise feature
>constant disk thrashing
>ads in the start menu
>switching between 3 different settings programs
>being told to make a Microsoft account at every corner
>unusable CLI
having sex, because i spend hundreds of hours finding solutions for things that used to just work
Task Manager and device manager.
For Task Manager I have Stacer
native .exe support (I use wine but it's weird)
use op, htop or btop++
.exes require windows to run, they interface with windows dlls to do their shit.
And that's basically what Wine is, a miserable little pile of dlls, and a PE exe loader.
It is not an emulator because it is basically a Windows for linux.
nothing encapsulates a linux user better than this video,
that's pretty neat
i should learn how to tie knots
skill issue: the thread
>what's your hobby, anon?
>fiddling with an operating system
>Battery life over 4 hours
I get way more battery life on Linux than on Windows
Windows is constantly using CPU (and fans) for whatever purpose
on Linux *I* decide when it does something, otherwise it is totally idle.
>Non-blurry fonts
works perfectly fine in Kubuntu
>Working webcam
works out of the box for all of my laptops
>video driver crashing
>file explorer freezing
>windows search breaking due the servers crashing
>windows search not finding files in folder even when the correct name is given
>forcely reminders about microsoft software
>untold amounts of nagware that cannot be turned off
absolutely nothing.
>ITT: post the little things you miss after switching to Linux
the Windows community
joke
I don't miss those retards at all
>onedrive not syncing every file
>icons and menus that do not scale and get very blurry
>windows updates that are "optional" but actually required
Works on my machine. I don't see any blur.
You're probably running Xorg.
I run Xorg and don't have blurry fonts
install VS Codium you fucktard
I just use windows because FL Studio didn't work on linux
a decent file picker
clicking the "show in folder" button in firefox actually selects the file instead of just opening the directory that its in (unless thats a pcmanfm specific thing)
games just werk
foobar2000
can run (newer versions) of adobe applications
i haven't used linux as a main os in a while
>games just work
lutris with proton(-GE), luxtorpeda
>foobar2000
add it to Lutris and run it through WINE
>adobe
picrel
freetard having a melty again
having a different operating system to you
>applications that just work, no questions asked
>good fractional scaling
>good ui
>rock solid system
>not having to think about my OS
I eventually went back to Windows 10 after years of trying out Linux.
wasted quints, kys
not checked btw
Fractional scaling, by definition, can never be good
Type ctrl-+ or ctrl-- in a browser and tell me it doesn't work well (within a reasonable scale factor range).
blessed numbers
i miss being able to use my computer instead of having to fix random errors every three days
sound
wifi that stays connected for more than 5 minutes
sleep mode that doesnt cause a kernel panic
Sounds like a skill issue. Not only was it piss easy for all that but also my hardware is actually more usable. I'm sure with some digging I could get this to work on Windows too but on Linux for example I was able to just use my IR camera. In Windows it was only available for Windows Hello by default
Binary compatibility with 90% of the commercial software available. Linux is not an alternative, and no, neither Proton nor WINE will save you. Go work.
Work provides me with a computer, why would I do work things on my personal computer?
>Search that doesn't take 20 minutes only to give web results
>Night light not getting turned off randomly when entering a full screen app or video
>no random windows tasks that pop up use most of my resources
I miss an OS that really just works and runs blueMSX and Carom3D.
But going back to windows will not fix that because my machine can't do Windows 7 that was basically the perfect OS, and Windows 10 is fucking horrible, with massive loadtimes and constant nagging and interrupting and jumping in front of me like a horny clown and upgrading behind my back and all sorts shits.
Poorfag cope mixed with schizophrenia. How long until you attempt suicide again?
I dunno, an OS that can't update the system while running feels pretty ancient.
And the 30 minutes i spent tweaking the linux jank was more than paid for by the fact it just load stuff faster, due not having autistic shitfits of hard drive use for shit i don't need.
Also i have an AMD graphics card and like to emulate 3DS, so even when i was on windows, i had to boot an pen drive linux shit to actually have full speed OpenGL.
Windows 10 is free it just sucks.
agreed.
> Open in image viewer
> ctrl-r
Done
> i could see why linux hasn't taken off yet
Linux "took off" years ago on servers and scientific computing in general, absolutely crushing competition outside of a handful of enterprise domains and CAD/Autodesk stuff.
Maybe having extra right-click features would be nice, but it's not really a major factor. A Linux DE could be perfect in ALL of those little details and it still wouldn't take off because OS usability is just not a major factor in desktop market share at this point. All that matters is what applications run on it, and what matters there are network effects and backroom deals. Windows users will grow accustomed to whatever features Windows provides and will consider any deviations to be worse, whether they are objectively or not.
I installed windows 11 on my steam deck and magically got 3 extra hours of battery life. Why is Linux such shit at power efficiency?
life over 4 hours
>>Non-blurry fonts
webcam
No it doesn’t. You wouldn’t know what a functional pc was like if you sat in front of one.
>install ubuntu
>fonts look nice and crisp
>webcam works out of the box
>battery life is 9.5 hrs
feed and seed
I switched to Windows after not using it for ages.
I got a laptop to use for work with Windows 10 Pro / Office 365 etc.
Holy shit was Windows always this... laggy? I don't know how else to explain it, it's like every has a fraction of a second to a couple of seconds of delay.
Clicking the start menu, the right click menu, sometimes even opening basic programs like Explorer.
>right click on an image
>rotate clockwise
>done
i had to install a package and read documentations to do the same thing. granted i got used to it now but i could see why linux hasn't taken off yet
>screenshot handling
Had to try 5 different packages to find something even remotely close to ShareX, and even then the performance is trash.
>Firmware
In order to get Bluetooth and wifi working on my laptop, I've had to downgrade my linux-firmware package 4 years back. There has been no working package release since then.
In order to let my CPU turbo boost I've had to change a random kernel flag.
>working compositor
Still no fix in 2023
Yeah I can relate. I had to use an older distro version and downgrade kernel to get my Vidya card to work. I have another card, but it's the principal of the matter. The card still works why should I trash it? Fortunately I can bend since I just use my loonix box for work stuff, and it has done an admirable job so far. There are minor annoyances , but they were solvable.like why the fuck did gnome devs decide that drag and drop files from nautilus to desktop was a feature that people didn't need? Wtf! I always come across some bullshit like this in every loonix distro I've used since like 2002. I understand that some people don't want to deal with the hassle. But if you spend the time to learn you can have a rock solid setup that works like an appliance vs an advertising platform. I would type more , but phone posting sucks dick.
i'm starting to think some of you guys are just bad at technology
HDR
nothing
Beat it cunt
The only thing is miss is support for modern Excel versions
Being able to put the computer to sleep and not come back to graphical glitches
Not getting fucking burn in on my monitor while playing Teardown
Plugging in USB drives and having it just work
CTRL+ALT+Delete
Decent font rendering
I miss not being able to solve any problems at all with my system because the entire thing is a black box. It really gave me a sense of security to know indian tech support is the only one who can help.
OpenMPT
>Linux
>Worse battery discharge
Why is it that Unix-like OSs lack the functionality that Windows provides in Control Panel to adjust Power and Performance when you want/need it?
I remember finding it to be bizarre when I decided to switch to Ubuntu years ago,
and my desktop ran hotter on idle than before with my Windows setup.
We don't care. Fuck off.
>muh rules
kys those only exist for power tripping mods to justify why they ban someone who butthurt them.
Hey,
here to say that you need to take your meds.
The best IDE
Some games and plugins for music production. Linux is just better in every other way
What threads do you normally post in?
What's your valuable contribution to the board other than being a humongous mass-reply homosexual?
>Non-blurry fonts
You can disable anti-aliasing globally.
You people think you're so smart and yet fall for bait nonstop