I’m a regular user of Linux systems but apart from a couple of test Ubuntu installs many years ago they’ve always been containers or VMs with no DE which I can throw away when I break them. The Steam Deck showcasing how far Wine/Proton has come combined with Windows being Windows has given me the push; I’ve made a Mint...
Mint do have software center preinstalled, which supporta flatpaks. Synaptic is a wrapper around apt afaik and it is useful for people who want to use apt without knowing the commands.
But what does that mean exactly? Fairphones with long support duration? Solar powered software developers?
You know, FOSS isually have that long support duration. See how custom roms give like 5 additional android version upgrades. Only because devs use the same hardware. I guess thats true for linux users as well. Unlike proprietary software that fucks up ethe end of life
Windows is harder to use if you used nothing and compare linux with windows.
I bought my first laptop less than a month ago and started using linux. Its hell to run windows.
I didn’t have wifi when i bought it and i cant even start it because it needs network-a lot of data. Only since I remember hearing a bypass method, I seatched for it and ran OOTB\BYPASSNRO in CMD to skip online setup. Then there is all kinds of bloatware which uses more than half of the ram. It was too unusual to see apps on your menu and when you tries to open them it starts downloading… Like what the fuck, even a “sponsored” or “reccomended” label is not there. Looks like a normal app. I switched to Fedora the first day!
Comparing the experiences, KDE was much much smoother and feature complete. Later afyer using it for long, I felt like KDE or linux in general is lacking something, like i want this to be more improved, but i realised I should be greatful to what I have when I booted back to windows… The UX was pathetically worse than KDE. Windows UI is inconsistant as hell which exposes old windows 10/7/(xp?) UIs ocassionaly shows up. You know what? The right click menu has a button which shows the right click menu of windows 10 having the same options💀
There is more. When i search something, it shows web result instead of the app i was searching for. It takes 50% of my ram at idle even after removing the McAfee shit and other unnecessary apps. It shows disk read/write operations, network traffic, and cpu usage all the time at idle. The wallpaper looks like low bitrate video(idk why this one hapened, its one of the wallpaper that comes with windows). Advanced settings are same settings but from an old windows version. I disabled animations so that windows may be a bit more faster but turns out the animations were hiding the slowness. Also more you customise, more glitches you have.
Anyway my experience only involves my laptop and android phone, so no other devices whom doesnt want to support linux, and i have amd hardware
My favourite DE has got to be Cinnamon, as much as I like KDE and XFCE, I prefer the simplicity of cinnamon where as in KDE has a bit too much of everything in the customization scene and XFCE I find a little tricky to get tiling working right....
" Simple by defauly, Powerful when needed" is exactly what KDE is. Just try pressing function keys(F1-F12) and see how it expands its features. Oh and the edit mode!
Not exactly as funny meme as I would like it to be, but I just found out about that feature after having to hold the power button due to a frozen system countless times, and I had to tell someone.
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I’m a regular user of Linux systems but apart from a couple of test Ubuntu installs many years ago they’ve always been containers or VMs with no DE which I can throw away when I break them. The Steam Deck showcasing how far Wine/Proton has come combined with Windows being Windows has given me the push; I’ve made a Mint...
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