• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Last time I used Linux it came with its own bag of problems like hunting down drivers and incompatibility issues and random bugs that wouldn’t let me use the wifi without digging up solutions in some obscure forum. Maybe it’s not the case anymore but I don’t hear many people lauding it for its competitive UX and ease of use.

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      1 year ago

      GNOME’s UX has come a looong way in just like 3 years.

      I assume the same is true for KDE now that Valve is investing money in it.

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          1 year ago

          I understand how it can feel that way when you are not used to Linux. I felt the same way in the beggining when I was learning it.

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      1 year ago

      Huh, my experience is the exact opposite. On Linux there was zero hunting for drivers of any kind. At all. They were all just included in the Linux kernel. Out of the box drivers for everything I had.

      On windows it was: ok first I need my motherboard chipset driver, now I need my WiFi driver, and now my graphics driver, now the driver for this microphone, and finally the driver for this controller.

      Each of which I had to search online for the right website, download an installer, run an installer, and delete the installer afterwards.

      To me, that was a much more clunky experience.