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Monument ,

About 23 years ago I couldn’t make it boot when I plugged in a USB hub.
And since, my life just became too invested in Microsoft/Adobe products to be able to use something else as a daily driver.

But I “use” Linux every day - whether it’s the PiHole, the NAS, the server that runs my 3D printer, or WSL in Windows PowerShell. I’m about to spin up my own OPNSense router, too.
Weird trajectory on WSL - I learned Unix commands using MacOS terminal for a previous job, but I generally abhor windows command line (it just doesn’t work with my brain). So now when I use commend line in windows, I default to *nix.

It sort of works out that I use Macs for personal use, Windows for work, and Linux to run the systems of my life.

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    domi ,
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    HDR is an issue. It just doesn’t seem to work right. Media players do all kinds of weird stuff. I’ve seen six screencaps from six media players taking snapshots of the same file, and they all had their colours wrong in different ways on Linux. VLC managed to get the colours right, but then lacked some other features. The Linux version of his previous media player uses different codecs on Linux so it suffers from the same problem.

    Not surprising, there’s zero HDR support on Linux desktop as of right now. You either need a player that can tonemap from HDR to SDR or you need to run your entire desktop through gamescope (which is what Steam Deck is doing).

    However, KDE Plasma 6 releases next month and it’s the first desktop environment to come with rudimentary HDR support. So things are evolving in that area.

    pkill ,

    Rustdesk is better than this proprietary spyware teamviewer

    Croquette ,

    I am dual booting because I bought a nice OLED monitor with HDR and Linux doesn’t support it yet. For certain games with nicer graphics, HDR is really beautiful.

    The moment Linux support HDR, I nuke windows for good.

    redcalcium ,

    KDE Plasma 6 supports HDR now: gamingonlinux.com/…/hdr-support-for-kde-plasma-6-…

    Croquette ,

    I am aware that this is coming, but it’s still not fully completed. But I’m about to ditch windows any cause I just plain prefer linux

    cali_ash ,

    When did they give up? Lemmy is literally crawling with people that won’t shut up about linux.

    init ,
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    But is it Arch?

    TexMexBazooka ,

    Lemmy is a very very small sample of inherently technically savvy people. All this thread is gonna be is “blah blah windows bad Linux is great except for these 9 paragraphs about everything I couldn’t get working and had to spent hours diagnosing”

    amoroso ,
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    I love Linux. But I got so exasperated with system updates breaking X-Windows and dropping me into the console with no clue what to do, for some time I intentionally deferred the updates.

    I wanted a stable daily driver, so in 2015 I switched from Linux to ChromeOS. Now I’m back to Linux with the Crostini container of ChromeOS and Raspberry Pi OS on a Raspberry Pi 400.

    AnUnusualRelic ,
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    That’s never happened to me in at least ten years (and that’s with nVidia gpus). What kind of exotic setup did you run?

    PolarisFx ,
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    I see posts like this all the time, I’ve had it happen once when I was running PopOS years ago and it was an Nvidia issue. Usually it’s older Nvidia cards, I’ve never had an issue with newer cards

    AnUnusualRelic ,
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    I see people having trouble with nVidia all the time as well. I’ve had numerous models from them in almost 30 years of desktop linux with very few issues. All in all they just plainly worked as advertised. You sometimes had to fiddle a bit to get the closed source drivers, depending on the distribution, but that was pretty much it.

    I never knew where their reputation came from.

    Note that I don’t especially endorse them, they’re definitely crooks. But then Ati/Amd only recently got something decent to the market.

    amoroso ,
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    Although it did have an nVidia card, my PC was an otherwise ordinary machine running Ubuntu, not a gaming rig or something custom built.

    AnUnusualRelic ,
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    Ubuntu is a fairly common source of problems as well despite its popularity. But you were probably just unlucky.

    vodkasolution ,

    Hardware compatibility and, unrelated to the this, Adobe sw are the main reasons for me

    Omega_Haxors ,

    I asked someone with a lot of experience in the matter which distro to use and their recommendation was way below my standards.

    CaptainBasculin ,

    I’ve been using Linux on my laptop for years; I use i3wm that makes using it way easier than anything Windows can provide; but on my desktop pc I have too many stuff installed that I can’t be bothered to migrate all to Linux.

    Longmactoppedup ,

    On my gaming PC: I had a lot of random boots to black screen. (Vega 56 GPU)

    USB ports did not function at all with USB drives.

    TF2 had terrible performance compared to windows.

    There was no way to configure my sound card settings.

    I still run Ubuntu + kodi on my HTPC, have done for about 10 years. Updating versions of either can often lead to time spent in the terminal. Usually nvidia gpu related. So far the issues have been overcome.

    Kushia ,
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    Performance and reliability when gaming is my only reason for keeping Windows installed.

    Steam and everything else have already exceeded my wildest expectations in Linux, however I am somebody who wants to come home from work, fire up a game and have it work perfectly with the best settings and framerates I can manage. I don’t have the time nor patience to troubleshoot why some update just broke the game in some way after I’ve spent the last 10 hours dealing with other people’s problems.

    gerryflap ,
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    Yeah I’m still on Windows for the same reason. I seem to be a Linux gaming bug magnet, but I just keep having issues on basically any Linux PC that I try to game on. It’s getting better, but still not reliable enough for me. I have a Steam Deck now, which is super cool. But even there I had my fair share of bugs. I tried installing some software in desktop mode which instantly crashed the store (this was on first boot after a fresh install and update). I’ve also had my fair share of full Deck crashes during games already, especially after updates. Overall it’s very cool that it all works, but I don’t want to end up in a situation where I have to debug a game for 30 minutes (or more) instead of just playing the game. And that happens just a bit too often to me.

    QuarterSwede ,
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    Man I relate to this so hard.

    sum_yung_gai ,

    I really only want Linux for software dev work(docker mostly). Windows has wsl which has worked beautifully for me besides memory leaks a couple times a year. The issues I face with wal pale in comparison to my experience dealing with Nvidia drivers and gaming on Linux.

    Carighan ,
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    Yeah same. I got enough Linux for when I need it, and overall sitting on Windows is just… easier. Gaming compatibility, app compatibility, less fiddling with the system. Plus I can more readily help friends and family because my OS looks the same as what they have.

    I was on Linux before, but the lack of hardware compatibility at the time (this was nearly 20 years ago) turned me off back then. I tried again on my gaming PC about 2 years ago, and quickly realized gaming on Linux is far better than it used to be. It’s still pretty dire. But I kinda knew that in advance and this was more to dabble with it briefly and see how much actually works.

    JWBananas ,
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    besides memory leaks

    Have you tried auto memory reclaim yet?

    …microsoft.com/…/windows-subsystem-for-linux-sept…!

    sum_yung_gai ,

    I’ll give this a try, thanks!

    Lusamommy ,

    The best way I’ve seen it put is as such “why would I bother with a list of workarounds and janky, barely supported tools, just to get on par with out of the box windows”. Because like it or not, windows is a piss easy OS to get running on, and Microsoft puts a huge amount of work into making compatability a non-issue. If it was made for windows, it probably still works so long as your hardware hasn’t broken it, regardless of how old. Linux just can’t match the sheer amount of stuff that works on windows. And Linux subsystem means you don’t even need a dedicated Linux boot for things.

    So all in all, Linux just doesn’t stack up that well as a daily driver. Sure, I have various systems that run it, and they work great, but that’s because I don’t ever use them beyond narrow purposes.

    Tartas1995 ,

    Honestly, my experience was the opposite. When I had issues with windows, which I had a lot. Reinstalling was often the last and only solution. On Linux, when I had an issue, it was a little learning experience and running 1 command. I guess reinstalling is easier… So maybe not the opposite.

    MrScottyTay ,

    I’ve not had to redo windows since 10. 7 was the last time I had an issue that caused a redo which in turn made me go to Linux for a year or two before I had to go back to windows for Visual Studio for work. Been on windows since from 10-11 and I’ve never needed a redo anymore.

    Tartas1995 ,

    Interesting… I think I quit windows shortly after skipping 8 to go 10. So I might haven’t given windows 10 a fair chance

    Lusamommy ,

    I’ve never personally run into an issue that required a reinstall that wasn’t related to drive corruption. Basically everything has been just a quick restart and the problem vanishes

    Exec ,

    I have incompatible hardware.

    Phanatik ,

    I felt this with one of the laptops I put KDE Neon on. It had all manner of issues that never got a resolution.

    arai_aroi ,

    There are two parts of my story.

    For those with limited time, I gave up Linux once because it was so “strange” from Windows I felt uneasy to use one, and other time because I simply had no use case for it. For those with time, kindly read on.

    I had always been an MS-DOS/Windows user who tried Linux and failed several times because I didn’t “get” it, until sometimes between 2006 and 2007 when Mac started its transition into Intel CPU. It was interesting enough (as it was the beginning point for Mac to become mainstream in my country). I decided that my first laptop was going to be a Mac (my house used to see that building own PC was the way to go). It was the first lightbulb moment when I tinkered with a few options in the terminal. This helped me in the future when I tried Linux again. Count it as a transferable skill of sort.

    Then around as late as 2021 (because of various life circumstances), I decided to become a cyber security professional—a long time passion of mine. In order for the journey to be pleasant, Linux must be learnt. I enrolled in a course from one authoritative source for SysAdmin, and that was the first time I got to study the innards of the system. After that, along with myself landing a cyber security job, I became more fluent with Linux. Today, I work closely with clients who use Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, and sometimes Solaris, so there is no dull moment (except for troubleshooting Windows from time to time). Linux becomes part of my professional life, as the main use case.

    Linux learning curve does feel steep, but choosing a right distro for others help a lot. I never have my peers giving up on Zorin so far, for instance.

    tophneal ,

    I haven’t given up on Linux. I have at least 5 Linux machines in the other room, including tablets, laptops, and servers.

    There’s a few Mac’s in the mix too, but those are workstations.

    Though I can sympathize with the complaints here in these comments. I brought a ryzen laptop home and installed a distribution on it. Sleep didn’t work. Tried 2 more distros, sleep still didn’t work. Now that laptop just sits there. My Chromebook gets more use than it. Having to shut it down and boot it back up every time wasn’t worth using it anymore when my pinebook pro does have the support you’d expect for functions you’d expect from a laptop.

    Croquette ,

    Check in your BIOS, there might be a setting for sleep compatibility for windows or linux.

    I had the same issue with my Lenovo L14, until I’ve read a forum post explaining that there is different kind of sleep settings and they differ between windows and linux.

    tophneal ,

    Unfortunately I found out that it’s due to a bug in the kernel that hasn’t been fixed yet. I was thinking of giving it another change up and replacing popos with arch. If worst comes to worst I’ll do a brunch install and give it to someone who needs it. I’ll still get my Linux fix from my pinebook, tab, and various servers.

    prole ,

    I had the same problem with sleep when I switched last year.

    Try using hibernate instead. Takes a few seconds longer to start back up, but it saves your session and works just fine for me.

    Edit: just saw you’re using PopOS. Still worth trying, but I’m on EndeavourOS (with KDE Plasma) which, from what I understand, is basically Arch with training wheels. So that could be the difference.

    tophneal , (edited )

    Funny enough, it dawned on me I’ve used Arch ARM for years but haven’t tried it on that laptop yet. Think I’m going to give it a shot when I get bored. But first my mission is hunting down a bug in fedora with my pinebooks wifi. I use it a lot more than my other laptops and tablets

    Edit: I installed arch and everything is working correctly from what I can tell so far 😂 idk what was up with pop, fedora, and Manjaro…

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