• mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
    7 hours

    Suspend , hibernation and resume

    yes laptops may seem like they suspend and hibernate and resume properly on Linux. But they do not work reliably. Back in 2010, you could have laptop running hot inside your backpack just because it failed to suspend on lid close. Fast forwars to 2026, the lid close action works but for me, there are still small chances that it doesnt suspend properly or slow to suspend. I blame Intel and Micro$oft for the new standby mode.

    As much as I hate Macs, those fucking money grabbers suspend 200% well. I dont care if you’re alert or drunk or 30,000 ft in the air, if you close on the lids on these laptops, they suspend quickly.

  • jtrek@startrek.website
    12 hours

    People assume it’s all terminal all the time. I haven’t needed to open the terminal for months. It starts up. With the GUI I open the browser. Maybe steam, too. Do stuff. Shut down.

    • dx1@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6 hours

      While this may be true (I really have no idea at this point), terminal is a superpower, pretty much the best option for anything except manually dragging and dropping files one by one.

      • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
        5 hours

        I never use the terminal. It’s not necessary for me. I’m not an IT user. I’m not missing out on anything. Many things I do don’t even have a terminal command. It’s important new users know this if they are not in to IT.

  • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyz
    12 hours

    Software compatibility is probably the biggest issue. If someone relies on a piece of software that is Windows or MacOS exclusive, that can be enough of a deal breaker. Open source alternatives may exist, but they do not always have the same features or behave as expected compared to what they are replacing.

    • ‹Hexa«Back›@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2 hours

      I resort to ancient audio hardware with pure ALSA from how bad the modern Linux audio stack has gotten

      pipewire is forgivable as it’s slowly healing the Linux audio madness

    • Cyberwolf@feddit.org
      11 hours

      Audio is so bad it’s unbelievable. I don’t know if it’s because laptops are built with shitty hardware and then compensated for with proprietary drivers (which Linux doesn’t ship with) but my God are they bad.

      Nothing that can’t be fixed by wearing earbuds or plugging in some good speakers, of course.

  • knee@lemmy.ml
    15 hours

    It deprives Apple and Microsoft of revenue. /s

    • 7toed@midwest.socialEnglish
      8 hours

      Aha bluetoothctl connect f3:a2:de:e6:b5:a1

      Connected

      Could not connect

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    15 hours

    Freedom is overwhelming.

    You can change everything and anything… so that means a LOT of choices.

    • vandsjov@feddit.dk
      3 hours

      Yep, just choosing a distro can be daunting when you know nothing.

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.world
    8 hours

    I think the main problem lies in the community.

    Not everyone, but a few vocal rotten apples are hostile to new users who either:

    1. Don’t already know the answer to their own question

    2. Are not using their distro

    3. Didn’t immediately read the wiki entry for their exact problem

    This kind of gatekeeping is why some people are put off of Linux and the community as a whole. Just because someone asks a question you think is obvious, doesn’t mean it’s obvious to them.

  • hobata@lemmy.ml
    15 hours

    In Linux, you can configure everything. And you’re will be forced to do it.

    • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyz
      11 hours

      That really depends on distro. With something like Arch and Debian, that is definitely the case. On the other hand, Bazzite requires almost no configuration and has scripts for common use cases.

      • vandsjov@feddit.dk
        3 hours

        Debian can be installed without doing any configuration. In the installer choose to have KDE, Gnome or another desktop and you will get a functional desktop with most normal apps and games. I’ve only made small changes to configuration but nothing that was blocking me from using it. Might not be the case for everyone and some other distros will be better at automatically configuring more things.

      • hobata@lemmy.ml
        10 hours

        Regardless of which distribution you choose, there will come this moment…

  • Teppichbrand@feddit.org
    14 hours

    Flatpak and Docker are great, but making them talk to each other can get as complex as solving the problems they came to make easier in the first place.

  • Broken@lemmy.ml
    21 hours

    For me its the nuance of things.

    Like quality of life settings. Turn Bluetooth on automatically at boot. Yeah, you can do it, but not by looking at settings and turning that option on. No, you need to recognize that’s a problem then search for an answer, determine which of the 2 or 3 answers you find are right, then do it. Is it a deal breaker? Absolutely not. But I don’t want to “solve problems” for every thing I want to do.

    My other gripes would be lack of software support. As great as some apps are, others there are no support for Linux.

    • med@sh.itjust.works
      9 hours

      I was about to say, I’ve only come across that particular issue since moving to KDE, but I know what you mean about the lack of options, but then I looked in the settings, and found this:

      It’s getting there!

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      12 hours

      Maybe it’s just the distros I’ve picked, but I’ve literally never had to do anything to get Bluetooth to turn on at boot

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
      18 hours

      This stuff unfortunately depends by the desktop environment and because there are hundreds of them, it’s inconsistent.

      On gnome it remembers it correctly, although there are a handful of times where the gamepad doesn’t connect automatically and I have to manually do that

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 day

    the confounding tribalism behind its modularity. options are great, but they also bring out the absolute worst in many of us.

    it’s not much of a problem until those options actually manage to fragment the desktop and server ecosystems, but the attitudes at play surely drive prospective newcomers away a bit.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
      22 hours

      the confounding tribalism behind its modularity. options are great, but they also bring out the absolute worst in many of us.

      Exactly. Parts of the Linux community, and FOSS in general, are extremely hostile. And for some new users, that’s the first (and probably only) impression they get when they have an issue trying it out for the first time. It’s a very small minority, but they are loud and aggressive, and are not ostracized by the community nearly enough.

      Telling a new user that is going out of their way to figure out how to find and post an issue or feature request to Github, telling them to just fix it themselves isn’t a solution, it’s just being a dick. 99.9% of this planet doesn’t know how to code, just because they’re making a post on GitHub doesn’t mean they know how to code. Especially not at a level to fix an issue like that.

      • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
        18 hours

        And that some programs are extremely opinionated.

        Ignoring requests with thousands of posts, or even pull requests where the changes are already implemented

        “No. I won’t add tabs, it’s better UX to have separate windows”

        “No, I won’t allow the user to save the password, even if it’s local or not important”

        “All the temporary shit will be saved on the hardcoded directory ~/.fuckyou and not /tmp”

        • Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          17 hours

          “All the temporary shit will be saved on the hardcoded directory ~/.fuckyou and not /tmp”

          .fuckyou 😂😂

          A recent bugbear of mine has been hardcoded icons.

          • med@sh.itjust.works
            9 hours

            Did you just try to theme my app? We’re opinionated software, and that’s bigotry.

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21 hours

        they used to be a much larger part of the community when i first got into linux in the early aughts; i’m glad RTFM is no longer considered a reasonable response.

      • db2@lemmy.world
        1 day

        Probably X vs Wayland. Everyone knows what the correct answer is.

      • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 day

        Init managers for sure! Amongst file managers and DEs, firewalls, package managers, modern packaging systems and their sandbox/security systems, display servers (probably the funniest one), audio servers, filesystems.

        Lots of stuff we should appreciate having as FOSS, especially the options we don’t choose.

        Fully switching over for the last couple years has made this modularity feel especially apparent compared to commercial systems (when things aren’t always so seamlessly integrated) but I’m glad for it all; it’s really fucking cool to think about how dramatically you can change the experience of a Linux desktop OS.

      • juipeltje@lemmy.world
        1 day

        I mean, it could be so many things. Could just be people fighting over distros in general, or it could be the wayland vs x11 thing.

          • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
            1 day

            I wouldn’t say there’s “discourse.” That implies there are two sides engaging. It’s really just NixOS users telling everyone else they’re doing it wrong.

            • atomicStan@programming.dev
              1 day

              I didn’t really mean it in the sense that the communities of different atomic/immutable engage regarding the trade-offs associated by their respective methods of achieving atomicity/immutability. And, honestly, I’d actually love to see more of that. Even if NixOS users would dunk on the rest, at least until the learning curves are brought up.

              Instead, what we often find are unproductive threads like this one 😅. In which, naysayers and proponents act like they’re engaging, but I simply fail to understand what’s happening.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    1 day

    I can’t really help my Windows friends anymore when they need troubleshooting for things like: why their audio channels aren’t working in OBS, or why their config is suddenly corrupted. I used to be able to when I was on Windows, but now I just have to watch helplessly while they struggle to make things work.

    • felsiq@piefed.zipEnglish
      22 hours

      This is what I aspire to be, but I’m not quite there yet. How long did it take you to forget the windows stuff?

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
        8 hours

        I’ve been on Arch full-time for about two years, and even though I use some similar software, I’ve had to troubleshoot and do things differently from my friends for a while (installing mods manually, adding launch options to certain Steam games, using entirely different software stacks to do the same things). My brain just can’t contain troubleshooting info for both, so the Windows stuff gets lost over time as Widows becomes more buggy and stupid.

      • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyz
        12 hours

        I’ve been running Linux full time for 4 years and still have my Windows troubleshooting knowledge. I would say it’s more frustrating since logging isn’t nearly as good compared to Linux.

      • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
        18 hours

        It’s not so much forgetting, but waiting until Windows “changes it” - the “yeah, just go here in the settings… oh… there’s not a setting any more… there used to be an option for this…”

        • felsiq@piefed.zipEnglish
          12 hours

          Oh then I guess I’m fucked, cuz the parts I want to forget are mostly the registry and the dumbass isolated settings windows that haven’t changed in 20yrs 😂