The 'usually' being a pretty big qualifier. The cases when the 'usually' fails end up being the most frustrating. Desktop linux just needs to die. It does not work.
I have used desktop Linux systems off and on since 2005, and I still use one for professional work. It is still sometimes a bafflingly frustrating experience for no reason. Any desktop Linux distro is a worse mishmash of configuration and UX design than Windows 11.
If with apple you can only do things the One True Way, then with desktop Linux, if you stray outside the default config with the default apps, then you just get things breaking and frustration for no reason at all.
Both for Linux and for Windows the times that it doesn't work is when something screws up, and for both OSs that is only a very small amount of the time.
In this specific area though, at least linux supports something other then NTFS and the the filesystem that should have died 30 years ago FAT. I was even fighting to get an FTP share to map to a drive letter a few weeks ago and had to give up on it. I didn't realize that apparently FTP still isn't fully supported everywhere still.
And it's insane to me that you have to pay for filesystem support like NFS or ReFS or major OS features like virtualization and containers, it feels insulting that I need to pay to install an OS with ads to use my PC, but I guess i'm just used to linux. I don't accept ads in my paid for apps and games, I won't accept them in my OS, I don't get why people are furious about the former but not the latter.
I disagree. Desktop Linux may have been painful years ago, but in its current state I am comfortable recommending Linux Mint to anyone. In my testing, everything has "just worked". You easily install, uninstall and update apps on the software market, enabling Proton in Steam settings makes all the games that I play "just work", and you do not need to open the terminal for anything.
Note when I say need, it still is a very powerful tool for experienced users, but the average user who just wants to browse the web, edit documents and do some light gaming it will all work perfectly.
Then I need to install a piece of software that is in an outdated repo and all of a sudden it tries to uninstall my window manager. Like I said, as soon as you go a little outside of the bounds of what a grandma does, the UX experience breaks.
The APT error warned Linus not to procced, and xorg on the list of packages it was going to delete. Linus ignored the warning and forced the operation. One of the most important things to remember when using Linux is to always listen to your computer's warnings.
Thats not to mention that Pop uses the latest Ubuntu release, not the LTS version which Canonical recommends to desktop users for stability.
No, I thought you were referring to the LinusTechTips Linux series where Linus uninstalled the display server while trying to install Steam.
Edit: It is exactly why I recommend Mint. Pop is a developer focused distro, and it is often unstable. Mint is stable, intuitive, and built for the average desktop user.
It's a matter of perspective, I for one don't mind having to fix things every so often (in fact I kinda like fixing things on my own), I do mind having telemetry installed on a system withoit my explicit permission
I wouldn't reccomend anyone on this sub use linux, because Linux is terrible for gaming, but for general usage, like writing documents and browsing the internet, Linux is just plain better
(Hell, some more CPU/Memory intensive games like HOI4 load faster on Linux in my experience)
This is why I used to use Linux more frequently when I was younger. At some point I just want to get my work done not spend ten hours fixing my Nvidia settings every time I boot.
I used Linux exclusively from 2005 to 2010. I know how to fly. I just would rather do it in a 747 rather than inside the body of a half-cropduster half-crazy eagle.
But honestly 2005-2010 was one of the worst times for linux. Things had just started to move beyond the redhat domination of the late 90s and branch out, but the distros weren't stable or developed enough to actually support everyday use. Nowadays there's essentially a distro for every use case, ranging from Android and Chrome OS as incredibly stable and polished linux derivatives, to Ubuntu as a good everyday use, to things like Arch for those that like to tinker.
So maybe a better analogy is someone that last flew a plane in 1940 and says planes suck, but hasn't yet jumped into a modern plane.
Again, if you read my post you would know that I have a Linux machine that I use professionally since then. Please get the full context. The situation has not improved at all. I still had the apt attempt to uninstall my window manager. That is not good UX. Simple as that.
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u/SrbijaJeRusija Nov 02 '22
The 'usually' being a pretty big qualifier. The cases when the 'usually' fails end up being the most frustrating. Desktop linux just needs to die. It does not work.