Why I (sometimes) hate Linux

[uOpt]

This gets worse the more I look.

I left the new KDE installation up. On a machine that has never been asked to suspend and that never suspended. Install and run KDE, suddenly it suspends after a timeout. Who makes these decisions?

To add insult to injury the suspended machine would not wake up again, reset required.

 

[emphy]

This gets worse the more I look.

I left the new KDE installation up. On a machine that has never been asked to suspend and that never suspended. Install and run KDE, suddenly it suspends after a timeout. Who makes these decisions?

To add insult to injury the suspended machine would not wake up again, reset required.

Heh, just a few minutes after me posting that something always gets messed up with kde on my systems, too.

Out of curiosity: did you install kde on your existing mint install or start out fresh?

 

[uOpt]

Out of curiosity: did you install kde on your existing mint install or start out fresh?

It is a many years old Debian install, at 12 right now. First time it has seen KDE and KABOOM!

 

[Nobu]

I think kde defaults to (hybrid) sleep or suspend if your bios reports it supports it. You can turn it off in the power settings kcm in system settings, iirc. I usually do, since it's a desktop and I'll turn it off if I want to dammit.

 

[uOpt]

I think kde defaults to (hybrid) sleep or suspend if your bios reports it supports it. You can turn it off in the power settings kcm in system settings, iirc. I usually do, since it's a desktop and I'll turn it off if I want to dammit.

Already turned it off. Was just surprised that such a systemwide decision is made by one user's DE. Not my idea of professional computing.

 

[Vermillion]

None of that has ever happened to me except a Copilot search bar which I right clicked and permanently hid. It's clear you've never used windows 11 and are parroting sensationalistic rumors. Like it or not, windows is the gold standard of desktop operating systems.

Linux certainly is not, a distant third to macos. There's a reason Linux only makes up 1-2% market share after 30 "year of the Linux desktop" proclaimed by its lovers.

So because it hasn't happened to you it doesn't matter or doesn't exist? It's clear you need a reality check.

I've never used Windows 11? Ha that's a crock. I use it every day on my work laptop and I loathe it. It's dog shit ugly. It's dog shit slow compared to my Arch system. It can't remember where a fucking window was after it goes to sleep (my Arch system doesn't have that issue). I wake it up and all the windows are on my monitor and nothing is on the laptop screen. We won't even talk about the update process that is still from the Stone Age and takes forever.

I also have one single Windows 10 PC (it can't legit run Windows 11 b/c of MS bullshit TPM 2.0 requirement and yes I know I could get around it but that doesn't appeal to me) left in my house for my son to game with and build stuff with Roblox Studio (those fuckers killed WINE support on purpose). That computer right now has a Windows update that won't install. It's a known issue by MS. Their answer to fix it? Play with the partition table using the command prompt and reboot. Sorry. I will NEVER re-partition a Windows drive. It never works properly. If I gave a shit enough I'd just re-install the whole OS but when Windows 10 goes EOL next year it'll be going Arch anyways so I just let that update keep failing.

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Which is precisely why I use it. Its positively glacial development pace is a relief to me.

I can chuck in my favorite theme from the noughties and it gets out of the way, as opposed to screaming "look at me, being your clever desktop". No thanks, I want stability in my desktop environment, thankyouverymuch.

Never could get along with kde; I usually mess something up in the first few minutes of use, then spend way too long figuring out how to fix it.

Kde software is awesome, though. Where gnome's applications always stick out like a sore thumb, a few clicks gets kde's to look like they were tailor-made for xfce.

I get that. That's kinda why I used XFCE back in the day for a long time. Plasma and Gnome 3.x back then were pretty shit to me. I also have to admit that Manjaro's XFCE theme is pretty nice.

That said I will say with Plasma 6 it's pretty out of the way out of the box. With Plasma 5.x I did have to make some changes to fit my workflow but now I don't really have to. I make a few minor changes nowadays but for the most part if I reinstall Arch, i just install KDE and leave it be. Now I make two changes and I'm done. I change to the Dark Theme and I disable the Hot Corners feature. That's it. As always mileage may vary but the KDE team has really done amazing work with the 6.x series.

 

[Mazzspeed]

Still to this day my Razer mice have outrageous speed issues, even with the setting then all the way down in the GUI. I have to make a batch file and run it each time to get a reasonable speed. Been like this over many iterations. The DPI buttons don't work at all.

Network issues are always prevalent for me. In the end I need to go to the store, find a network card or usb NIC and then Google what chip it has and hope it's one Linux supports. Always fun searching up chip revisions just to get wifi

And I've never had wifi work out of the box. Always need to download drivers separately.

Razer Deathadder Elite here, DPI settings via Polychromatic and the buttons on the mouse work fine. As far as I'm aware, the buttons on the mouse are hardware buttons, they don't rely on software installed on the machine. If they do, a driver must be part of the kernel as they work perfectly here even before I install the OpenRazer driver.

 

[auntjemima]

Razer Deathadder Elite here, DPI settings via Polychromatic and the buttons on the mouse work fine. As far as I'm aware, the buttons on the mouse are hardware buttons, they don't rely on software installed on the machine. If they do, a driver must be part of the kernel as they work perfectly here even before I install the OpenRazer driver.

I've bookmarked your post for later. I am off to a work party but this has great information. I didn't know about an openrazer driver or what polychromatic even is.

Thanks!

 

[auntjemima]

Razer Deathadder Elite here, DPI settings via Polychromatic and the buttons on the mouse work fine. As far as I'm aware, the buttons on the mouse are hardware buttons, they don't rely on software installed on the machine. If they do, a driver must be part of the kernel as they work perfectly here even before I install the OpenRazer driver.

I finally installed the program and it does everything I needed it to do. Thanks! Wish I knew about this ages ago.

 

[Bankie]

True, but the apartment's not wired for Ethernet.

Does your apartment have Coax for Cable TV? I use MOCA adaptors that will get about 400-550MBps out of a 1GB fiber through the coax connectors that are in every room.

Haven't had any issues with wifi in a long while in regards to Linux though. My distro with Plasma works out of the box for wifi though I choose to use MOCA since the signal fluctuates from 150-250MBps using Wifi 6 (ax or whatever it's called). The Steamdeck gets about 1/2 to 3/4 of that in the same room over wifi.

 

[1_rick]

Does your apartment have Coax for Cable TV?

No idea, but I can check. It's a new building. Just opened last year. I suppose the jacks probably won't have any markings to tell me that.

 

[Deadjasper]

The difference between Microsoft and Linux is MS has idiots (marketing people) directing the code monkeys and Linux does not.

And 99 percent of the Linux info on the web is obsolete and useless. Why it's still there is beyond me.

 

[uOpt]

The difference between Microsoft and Linux is MS has idiots (marketing people) directing the code monkeys and Linux does not.

And 99 percent of the Linux info on the web is obsolete and useless. Why it's still there is beyond me.

That's one reason why I prefer FreeBSD. Centralized handbook, one wiki. Most of the usage info is in manpages that are updated on your system along with the utilities or libraries that they document. Always up to date on the manpages.

 

[toast0]

And 99 percent of the Linux info on the web is obsolete and useless. Why it's still there is beyond me.

Only things that you want to reference later get taken down. And Linux people like to reimplement the wheel to add features rather than updating the existing wheel. That means existing documentation becomes mostly useless, until you run across an old system.

FreeBSD folks know if they change the interface, they have to update the integrated documentation, which is strong encouragement to not change things that don't need changing.