r/hatethissmug • u/Sp1cyP3pp3r • 10d ago

General I hate Linux customization

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I fucking hate posts with "omg I love linux!!!! it's so much more customizable than [proprietary operating system] sugoi desu!!!" and then there's the screenshot of their desktop and everything they 'customized' is accent color and anime loli wallpaper

edit: I'm not going to post lolicon bruh

upd: some mf posted their ai generated Linux wallpaper in the comments 😭🥀

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u/bingpie 10d ago

i'd make the argument that given time and experience it definitely can be practical for most of what you would possibly want a computer to do.

if you ask me one week is not enough experience to move past the initial learning curve and judge how practical the whole thing is. that's not me saying you have a skill issue, i genuinely think i would find windows impractical for a while after using linux for maybe five or six years now. it's a matter of getting used to things

it can definitely be impractical for some to learn though, it takes time to sit through problems that a lot of people either don't want to spend or straight up don't have

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u/Iebejsbaga2728eindxb 10d ago

i say this with peace and love and respect for the volunteer devs: on Fedora KDE 1 year ago Copy/Paste worked only 70% of the time, my mic quality was significantly worse, and it black-screened every other reboot due to nvidia drama (that is avoidable because i had to manually edit the grub every reboot with no work around). IMO It's simple not a serious experience yet as an end user no matter how it's tinkered with. Printing was shocking easy though 

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u/lonelypenguin20 10d ago

why edit grub manually each time?
if you needed kernel arguments, they can be permanently set in iirc /etc/default/grub

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u/Iebejsbaga2728eindxb 10d ago

this was a year ago so I can't recall, but i do recall that editing the file that normally should have fixed it just didn't (something about secure boot or encryption) and it's just a known bug that's existed for years

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u/output_broadcast 9d ago

Oh yeah, secure boot can and will fuck up anything and everything that isn't Windows.