Two weeks ago my side mouse buttons started working (they require Logitech software on Windows, wasn’t expecting them to work). Last week they stopped. This week they work again.
Is this major? Not at all. Would it drive my mother-in-law into a rage rivaling that of Cocaine Bear? Absolutely. Spare me from the bear, keep Linux for the tinkerers.
My huion drivers require you to manually download them from an internet site and manually make sure it is a site you trust. Then you need to run them every time you want to use the pen functionality.
My DAC drivers needed to be installed from a site you think you trust and then sometimes I had to restart dac to run it.
My usb mic would randomly stop working and I’d need to reboot the drivers manually. If it hadn’t be a common fucking issue on fucking windows since the start of time it would be a very enjoyable half day of troubleshooting and googling.
On my linux:
Upon first bootup after install I fully expected a nightmare but they all ended up working out of the box.
No downloads
None.
None at all.
No restarts of hardware.
No reboots.
They all just work. All the chifi and chinese tablets. Unlike on “user friendly windows”.
I haven’t used the psu power button once cause linux is more stable.
Same. I have a Kensington trackball with a decent config and button mapping software in Windows that I will NOT give up. I tried Mint for a few weeks, but it just became too stupidly cumbersome to Google every single thing. Like I wanted to implement the Windows PIN thing for startup on my PC… Yeah no.
Linux has come a long way but it’s not ready for the commoners like me. And a free open source OS probably cannot be developed for the masses without some major funding with a dedicated team.
You’re getting downvoted because the Linux community can’t understand people like us that just want things to work without needing to google everything or paste in random scripts into terminal. Linux is just an OS for tinkerers and not for normies.
I tried switching to linux like 10 years ago, but then, all the games i played didn’t work. I tried switching again a month ago, but my cpu (i honestly don’t remember) wasn’t compatible. I watched youtube videos for a workaround, and that was way above my paygrade, because i’m worried i’m gonna skullfuck my computer by changing random ini files because a youtuber said so. I tried it on the laptop and i kinda just didn’t work either for a diffrent reason. I don’t care as much about my laptop, so i’ll try again.
As much as i hate windows, and i really really do, you hit a button and it’s installed.
it matters. different distros will have different versions of everything, and whatever compatibility problem you had with your CPU (or maybe GPU, since that’s more common and you seem to not remember much about it) might not exist in a different version of the kernel or something similar.
You sound like the exact person this meme is about… Having installed both windows and Linux each several times in the last 5 years, the process has been significantly easier for Linux every time.
I didn’t downvote you originally, despite this obvious lie at the end “you hit a button and it’s installed.” - just pointing out that you are exactly who the meme is about, lol.
Vague complaints about compatibility issues that don’t hold much water (and unable or unwilling to share any details); vaguely complicated solutions, presented as if they are dangerous, from “untrustworthy” sources; and finally claiming windows doesn’t have any of that (bet you have no similar concerns about using regedit… and you only follow the advice of official Microsoft Tech Support, right?).
I had no time to even turn on the computer since the post. I assumed i still had the youtube videos saved that were the “fix” to my problem. I really want nothing more to get away from windows. When i tried to swith the first time, i literally had to plug in a usb stick and i was running linux. But that was 4 computers ago. It’s not that the sources might be dangerous. Usually when i have computer problems i use youtube, because i can see it, hear it, and replicate it. Usually 2000 videos show up and they all explain the same thing. In this case i found like 4 videos and most of them were pretty old or in 480p or filmed with a mobile phone. Computers are just a hobby to me, all i know about computers, figured out myself. And i don’t really understand what the lie is with the windows installer. I used every windows simce 3.1 and i always hated the install process because it’s “scary”. But the last few times i put in a usb stick and waited and it was done.
I love Linux, but it isn’t ready.
Two weeks ago my side mouse buttons started working (they require Logitech software on Windows, wasn’t expecting them to work). Last week they stopped. This week they work again.
Is this major? Not at all. Would it drive my mother-in-law into a rage rivaling that of Cocaine Bear? Absolutely. Spare me from the bear, keep Linux for the tinkerers.
on windows:
On my linux: Upon first bootup after install I fully expected a nightmare but they all ended up working out of the box.
No downloads
None.
None at all.
No restarts of hardware.
No reboots.
They all just work. All the chifi and chinese tablets. Unlike on “user friendly windows”. I haven’t used the psu power button once cause linux is more stable.
Same. I have a Kensington trackball with a decent config and button mapping software in Windows that I will NOT give up. I tried Mint for a few weeks, but it just became too stupidly cumbersome to Google every single thing. Like I wanted to implement the Windows PIN thing for startup on my PC… Yeah no.
Linux has come a long way but it’s not ready for the commoners like me. And a free open source OS probably cannot be developed for the masses without some major funding with a dedicated team.
So back to Win 10, Enterprised with massgrave.
You’re getting downvoted because the Linux community can’t understand people like us that just want things to work without needing to google everything or paste in random scripts into terminal. Linux is just an OS for tinkerers and not for normies.
If you’re that specific in your requirements, you’re gonna have a bad time. I don’t think Microsoft makes “Windows PIN” for Linux.
As a normie myself, let me translate this to you tech literate nerds.
I think he is basically saying there is a macro software that inputs his pin on his mouse so he doesn’t have to constantly input his password.
I tried switching to linux like 10 years ago, but then, all the games i played didn’t work. I tried switching again a month ago, but my cpu (i honestly don’t remember) wasn’t compatible. I watched youtube videos for a workaround, and that was way above my paygrade, because i’m worried i’m gonna skullfuck my computer by changing random ini files because a youtuber said so. I tried it on the laptop and i kinda just didn’t work either for a diffrent reason. I don’t care as much about my laptop, so i’ll try again. As much as i hate windows, and i really really do, you hit a button and it’s installed.
what distro(s) did you try?
From what i gathered it doesn’t matter what distro is it, it’s just not compatible.
it matters. different distros will have different versions of everything, and whatever compatibility problem you had with your CPU (or maybe GPU, since that’s more common and you seem to not remember much about it) might not exist in a different version of the kernel or something similar.
You sound like the exact person this meme is about… Having installed both windows and Linux each several times in the last 5 years, the process has been significantly easier for Linux every time.
If it’s gotten easier in the past week, i’m trying again. But i appreciate the downvotes for trying to swith but not being able to.
I didn’t downvote you originally, despite this obvious lie at the end “you hit a button and it’s installed.” - just pointing out that you are exactly who the meme is about, lol.
Vague complaints about compatibility issues that don’t hold much water (and unable or unwilling to share any details); vaguely complicated solutions, presented as if they are dangerous, from “untrustworthy” sources; and finally claiming windows doesn’t have any of that (bet you have no similar concerns about using regedit… and you only follow the advice of official Microsoft Tech Support, right?).
I had no time to even turn on the computer since the post. I assumed i still had the youtube videos saved that were the “fix” to my problem. I really want nothing more to get away from windows. When i tried to swith the first time, i literally had to plug in a usb stick and i was running linux. But that was 4 computers ago. It’s not that the sources might be dangerous. Usually when i have computer problems i use youtube, because i can see it, hear it, and replicate it. Usually 2000 videos show up and they all explain the same thing. In this case i found like 4 videos and most of them were pretty old or in 480p or filmed with a mobile phone. Computers are just a hobby to me, all i know about computers, figured out myself. And i don’t really understand what the lie is with the windows installer. I used every windows simce 3.1 and i always hated the install process because it’s “scary”. But the last few times i put in a usb stick and waited and it was done.