A continuation rant of
https://lemmy.world/post/18158630
Oh my. The games I usually play work fine under Linux, and now they work equally or worse. The few Unreal games that caused me to break my Linux streak work way better under Windows, but the experience is so much worse. Spectacle screenshots always work, windows one just somehow manages to break itself, there is no fix. Every second boot it advertises Windows 11, even though I’m “ineligble”, since I have TPM disabled. No middle click paste. Applications keep going off bounds. PowerTools managed to reset twice now. Which C++ redistributable do I need to run this program? It’s not the newest one or the year before that. It’s not the one provided by the installer. It’s 2013 (in this case only)! WSL mounting is a nightmare if I want it to be read only. AMD drivers refuse to install because windows update is stuck at a “failed” security update. Tried to make a folder? Explorer.exe just crashed! Update went through finally? Just kidding, xbox app was just installed! Do you like to change individual application volume? I knew you didn’t! Install EarTrumpet! Oh, Windows store is broken by design! Then the settings. Why are they there if they just redirect to control panel?
What is this shit? I’m actually just going straight back to Linux, Fedora this time because of recommendations. If Wayland on fedora still does weird glitches, I will use x11 and suffer what happens on a 3-monitor setup with one monitor having a higher refresh rate and resolution. Windows is now only for games that won’t run under it.
Now… Extra question; Why does every distro need yet another package manager? Yay/pacman I get because it seems to build it. Though I don’t understand why, other than AUR. APT is so nice and easy… I hope DNF is the same.
I’m all for more people switching to linux, but a lot of your windows issues sound less like windows issues and more like your specific installation is messed up somehow issues.
One thing I will mention though is that Windows does have native per-application volume control, you don’t need to install EarTrumpet. You can right-click the system tray volume icon and open the mixer, or just search for “volume mixer” in the start menu.
Plasma has that capability built in.
Right. But OP was talking about Windows.
I have a tinkering laptop set up with Fedora, DNF is as simple as APT and friendlier imo. I’ve switched to Nala (an APT wrapper that enables concurrent downloads) on my Debian PCs. YMMV.
Simply put: every distro needs its own package manager because the distros handle packages differently, from the way software is bundled and distributed, to where files reside in the filesystem.
E.g. APT is so friendly because of how rigid Debian is about the structure and info that is bundled within the .deb archive, which Pacman users tend to consider as unnecessarily restrictive bloat that impairs download/installation times. Meanwhile,
yay(and other AUR helper programs) compiles the packages from source.Although there are some that work across distros, like Nix or Homebrew. Plus there’s always flatpak or AppImages or (shudder) Snaps.
And of course, if you want people to think you’re basically a programmer, there’s always
$ git clone <git repository> $ cd <git repository> $ sudo make install(for software that is packaged with a Makefile)
Dear diary,
Today I ate a burger. For real this time.
Dear god can we please stop it with the “My Linux Journey” posts. Create a new community or post to instagram or something.
EDIT:
Be the Change You Wish To See in the World
Different folks are at different stages of their journey. People are allowed to post about their thoughts and experiences.
I agree. Somewhere else though please.
I guess you could bring it up to the mods. As long as they are allowed, they will be posted.
I’m just posting a rant after my first rant, which pretty much means this is the last one I’m doing. I liked the reading what others had to say about the first one, so how about another meltdown ;)
It’s not meaningful, but at least I’m having fun. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t be posting this. And it also cools my head writing how dumb the issues are, even if they are my fault.
You just ranted about how bad you are at using and understanding Windows, in a Linux community.
To be fair his prior rant was about how bad he was at using and understanding Linux.
I have an impression that no OS is gonna save OP.
I mean, APT is able to do exactly the same as yay with the
apt buildcommand. I don’t know of any, but I’m sure there are images/distros out there that will build the whole OS with apt in a similar way.I’m surprised nobody said it yet. Welcome back!
Sounds like you should get a Mac.
Be that as it may, I would like to be constructive for a change:
Why does every distro need yet another package manager? Yay/pacman I get because it seems to build it. Though I don’t understand why, other than AUR. APT is so nice and easy… I hope DNF is the same.
RPM - which DNF uses - is the standard package format for Linux ;-) The problem seems to me to be that every distribution does not attach any importance to something like common standards.
Even if a meme, I’m already having trouble keeping up with my Android phone. A mac would be a nightmare, in the worst case it “would just work”. Unacceptable.
Thanks for the link, I’ll be reading it before going through with the install!
A mac would be a nightmare, in the worst case it “would just work”. Unacceptable.
That sounds exactly like the reason why Linux behaves like it does. ;-)
Oh extra fucking rant, I though the drag and drop was bad on Linux, probably because Ark just was 50/50 if it let me.
Oh boy, I now realized how much better Linux had it… Sure, there are a few cases, but dragging files from application to application just works unless it’s not developed. Right now on Windows, it actually just doesn’t work like I remembered it. It’s actually refusing randomly. This is a clean install, properly installed with their installer on another windows machine. No disable scripts or whatever used, real windows key and all…
Something is incredibly borked on your machine, hardware or software wise. Yeah Windows sucks, but it’s not THAT flaky. Most people aren’t having these issues. Linux may just be hiding a hardware issue or something and working around it better than Windows can.
I’ve noticed that before with stuff like bad RAM, where Windows will blue screen immediately on boot but Linux will make it all the way to the desktop but slowly degrade with use.
If you need games, use the OS that gives you these games. And if that OS gives you headaches, you need to decide if you want games, or a working OS. Maybe you can’t have both always. Or maybe an XBox or PS5 is a better option for you.
I’m an artist and I need photoshop. Adobe is evil, but Photoshop just works. But I still stayed with Linux. Now I use a combination of Gimp and Photopea. While Photopea is 90% there to what I need, Gimp is a disaster in terms of usability (I’ve been using Linux since 1999 btw, off and on, so I’m not new on Gimp). But I still stay with Linux, because it aligns with my beliefs that software should be open. I want nothing to do with corporations injecting tracking or ads on my OS.
I go as far as using a Macbook Air because I like the how its trackpad feels, but I don’t always run MacOS. Most of my actual work happens on Debian on my other computers.
As for Fedora, for games you might want to try Nobara, which is based on Fedora. The default Fedora might, or might not have everything setup for you to run games at higher speeds or compatibility. Running Windows games is not Linux distros’s first priority you see, but Nobara’s is.
I’m probably going juat Fedora, since I want the most stable one I can get, which is pretty much an issue with Wayland. I can try Nobara too since I have an extra empty disk.
VS code works fine and I’ve grown to like it more than Visual Studio, since it also has reference jumps now. But still, writing ASM doesn’t really need a crazy editor. I had the pleasure of all tools that I need for work working under Linux.
The two things that didn’t are paint.net and fusion 360. Krita is quite similar to paint.net and more powerful so I’m good on that front and 3d printing is just a hobby, so booting up Windows to do one model isn’t a big deal either. Though I haven’t really modeled after I made the switch initially. I did try to learn FreeCAD, bur it’s too complicated to make simple models and usually someone has already made what I need :)
On another note, Pinta is a clone of Paint.net that you can get via Flatpak.
