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  • The funny thing is, every laptop I have does suspend without issue. I think for a brief period in 2014 I had a problem with a Zen book, but it got fixed.

    As of today, in this office right next to me now: A chromebook, an HP and a Dell. All 100% linux laptops, all suspend. I did not have to do anything to make that work, it just did.

    I always avoid Ubuntu, for whatever that’s worth.

    Actually there is one funny thing: I picked up a laptop with Windows on it for a user going to a conference. It will not suspend. When you close the lid the fan just goes full blast and it is a space heater. We re-imaged it and it still does it. We just power it off now. It is a dell.



  • No they are more the rule. I have to deal with windows every day. I do all of it remotely using Linux. Because Linux just works and I don’t have time to deal with windows bullshit. Linux has been stable and reliable, particularly on my laptops where I do nothing but update or upgrade. My desktop has caused me a few issues over the years, been rolling Arch for 6 years or so, but I think that is to be expected.

    Windows on the other hand, what a pain in the ass.

    But I will agree that end users, in general are unlikely to use Linux over Windows in most cases. Not because Linux isnt ready, but that is what os their computer came with, that is what they are familiar with, and largely it is what they will make apologies for. I mean lets be real: most people don’t want a computer at all. I can’t blame them. My elderly mother vastly prefers her iPad over a computer no matter what the OS is on the computer.



  • My example wasn’t literal, I have had to do similar things for drivers, sound, USB, search etc. And windows support is just randos telling you what they think might work.

    As to your second point, the sane applies as windows is a collection of who knows that the hell software and random hardware. Which hardware? What driver? What vendor?


  • There are hordes more people on Windows and Mac

    Because it came with their computer. I have not used a command line at all on two laptops over the past year. It is the exception not the rule these days.

    However I have had to use the command line many, many times with Windows. Which is fine, it is MUCH easier to do this “Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted” instead of trying to find the gui to deal with it.




  • A quick overview of all the drives and mounted drives? That is in the left panel for me, with device sizes. Right click to copy or move? We have that too.

    Mount a drive? That one is interesting because of the underlying os. You can open a local network share, right click and add it to the left panel. It will then be available anytime you want to work with it. You can also add foreign shares, such as SFTP which I do not think windows can do.

    This one though: showing disk size and usage which you CAN do in Dolphin, I do not think is part of windows natively. What settings do you do to show those?


  • You have to be joking right? Windows file manager is one of the worst.

    Lets see: Windows 11 finally got tabs. About time after we have had them for I don’t even remember how long.

    • Where is split view so I can have side by side comparison?
    • Where is greenbar highlighting so I know at a glance seperation of each row?
    • Where is the terminal emulator panel if I want to run a command?
    • Why is the right click menu so damn shitty and not have a quarter of the useful functions? And decent customization?
    • Can I tag rate and comment directly on files?
    • Lets not forget batch renaming.
    • Windows has no integration with other services out of the box, and the add ons are a mess.

    Here is one that drive me absolutely up the wall with windows: why can I not see the amount of free space on the drive I am working on?

    It is in the right corner in my file manager. Click again and it will tell me the free space of all the partitions. Click again and I can open filelight. It is displayed in gigs AND in a graphical at a glance line.

    I put up with windows file manager, but it is quite possibly the worst one I can think of. What feature are you missing?

    Edit: fixed layout for clarity and readability.



  • I use Arch (obligatory)

    But I run Fedora with KDE on a chrome book and a low end laptop. There has been zero admin stuff to do. Everything has worked out of the box, updates are uneventful, and surprisingly packages have at times been ahead of Arch.

    Also worth mentioning that the Desktop of my Steamdeck is stable as can be too. I use it when I travel with a portable keyboard and I never have to do anything with it either.

    I would use Debian, Suse, nearly ANYTHING except Ubuntu. That is the one that always fails for me.


  • Ubuntu

    There is your problem. I know I am being snarky but i have had several discussions over the last few days about how Ubuntu has always been a problem for me since it came out. It is kind of nice to see another example.

    As an aside: On my old windows laptop, the wireless was crippled to half speed/ half features because it was not the “pro” wireless version. Turns out that in Linux is ran flawlessly and fast because it wasn’t being crippled artificially by the drivers. I have seen a lot of that over the years, including Bluetooth not working correctly in windows. There is a wide variety of hardware, and a wide variety of support of that hardware in both windows and linux communities.



  • AugustWest@lemm.eetolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldI see these MFs on a daily basis
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    GUIs exist for a reason.

    What is that reason? To obfuscate what is really happening? To make it difficult to support a computer because it takes 20 pages of pictures and a flow chart to explain something when a person could just copy paste a single line? I don’t buy that gui’s are easier or intuitive, or all that useful every time.

    I don’t see any difference googling using a decent search engine for one over the other.

    And lets not forget that windows is a confusing mess of self help support pages and command line entries for almost everything that goes wrong.