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    [–] dan@upvote.au 27 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

    I stopped using Linux on my desktop PC in 2007. Last year I switched back, and wow everything is so much smoother now. Video, sound, webcam, networking, all worked perfectly out-of-the-box. No more messing with fglrx for hours to get ATI/AMD graphics working. No more figuring out ALSA vs OSS vs PulseAudio vs whatever else. I don't know what the sound subsystem is even called now, because I don't need to know. It just works.

    KDE is beautiful now, too. I tried a few desktop environments and liked KDE the best.

    Great time to switch. I've been using Linux on servers since 1999, but it's totally viable for desktops these days too.

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    [–] Psythik@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    Tried it again a few months ago when HDR support first dropped in KDE. It didn't work at all. Everything was desaturated and dim. Literally the opposite of what HDR is supposed to do.

    I'm giving it another year before I try Linux again. Hopefully the bugs are sorted by then.

    [–] cdk@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    I've been using Endeavour with KDE and HDR on for almost a year. I had to install the "vk-hdr-layer-kwin6-git" package and now HDR works on desktop and in mpv/smplayer/haruna for both hdr10 and DV content. Games also work, but they require some steam launch arguments which aren't exactly user friendly.

    Ideally this will "just work" in The Futureβ„’...

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    [–] vga@sopuli.xyz 8 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

    Linux was ready for me 15 years ago.

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    [–] art@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Let's be real. Most people can't really use Windows, either. Anything harder than clicking the Chrome icon is beyond most users.

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    [–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 day ago (11 children)

    You don't see how terrible Windows is until you've switched to another OS and need to interact with it again.

    The constant pop-ups, the ads everywhere, the settings hidden away.

    It really feels like your PC isn't yours.

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    [–] steeznson@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

    If you want to see what linux was like 15 years ago try installing OpenBSD lol

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    [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 15 points 22 hours ago (19 children)

    So, which distro is the ready one?

    [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

    They're all fine, but Hannah Montana Linux is the best.

    [–] lengau@midwest.social 10 points 20 hours ago

    Hannah Montana Linux

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    [–] drascus@sh.itjust.works 17 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

    I have had people tell me " I dont feel like building my own OS from scratch " I'm like what are you even talking about?

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    [–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    The other type I see is people who complain that Linux isn't usable, and it gradually turns out that the only thing they'd consider usable is an OS exactly like Windows.

    [–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

    Linux has a different use philosophy and workflow, once you udnerstand that you realize it's not a big deal.

    Windows is basically stockholm syndrome. It's just so shit but people memory hole all the troubleshooting, searching 20 control panels and then still going to regedit, opening terminal to start regedit or dxdiag. I guess nothing says "hardcore gamer os" more than pressing windows key and typing program name only for windows to launch a bloatware browser you are not allowed to uninstall that then goes into an search engine nobody wants to use and gives you a result that is an ad all the while your screen is recorded and all that is sold to whoever wants to buy it.

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