• pixelscript@lemm.eeEnglish
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      17 days ago

      My shortlist, off the top of my head:

      • Trying to solve screen tearing with Nvidia drivers.
      • Trying to get LightDM to show me my god damned profile photo on login (still have not succeeded)
      • Debugging a problem where my DE fails to come up on login unless I manually hop to TTY7 myself
      • Endlessly forgetting which of the two or three different directories my .desktop files actually live in, and navigating the poorly-documented format for modifying them
      • Fixing apps in my taskbar showing generic Wayland icons
      • Trying to have any consistent success at all with Bluetooth
      • Trying to figure out which fucking audio stack my distro actually uses so I can know for sure whether the magic incantation on StackExchange will fail because it’s for the wrong stack or fail because it’s the correct stack and the stack is garbage
      • python2 and python3 symlink hell
      • Faffing around with WINE settings

      I thrive in the pain. But yes, there is plenty of pain.

      • Synapse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        18 days ago

        Let’s compare the update process when you want to shutdown your computer:

        Windows:

        1. Doesn’t leave you the choice: your getting updated now, deal with it
        2. Starts to update
        3. Reboots, update for 2 minutes (wasn’t that bad)
        4. Reboots again, updates for 15 minutes (come on man, I’m gonna miss my train !)
        5. Reboots AGAIN ! continue and eventually finishes the update
        6. Shutdown

        Fedora:

        1. We have downloaded updates, do you want to Install them before shutdown?
        2. Not this time, thank you
        3. Shutdown Or if you do let it install, reboots always just once, updates 2 minutes, done.

        If you have disk encryption or bitlocker, you just can’t let the PC update unattended. Not knowing how many times windows needs to reboot for this update is hella annoying.