There’s so much misinformation about Linux and people just take the bait hook, line, and sinker. I don’t get that…
Linux was way easier than I expected it to be and I have an advanced use case (home recording studio) which took a lot of tinkering to figure out. I did all that tinkering in a dual-boot arrangement and once I was done and convinced my needs were met, I never looked back.
For the last year, every day I boot up my PC I’m happy.
It’s easy until it’s not. I’ve got a decent gaming rig and have been running Linux on it since I built it a couple of months ago. Once an update completely broke my sound but the next one fixed it. Otherwise it’s been fine.
On the other hand I set up a Raspberry Pi to be a print server and have been troubleshooting it since Christmas. It will print the first job just fine but subsequent jobs are stuck in the queue until I reboot. I’ve googled endlessly, tried everything I can think of and it just won’t work unless I constantly reboot. Same printer worked flawlessly in Windows 10 for years before I set up the Pi.
Just switched over to EndeavourOS from Win 10, expected an Arch-based nightmare. My main issue was Discord not working with mouse-based push to talks, so I bound my forward button on my mouse to the non-existant F24 and it’s fine. That’s it. That’s the most difficult hacky thing I’ve had to do (tried a few different packages to manage mouse input stuff and mucked around in some config files that were easy enough to understand).
Everything else has been seamless, updating is easy (so far), and I’m chillin playing games on Steam. 10/10.
I don’t really, but I enjoy that I can almost say btw I use Arch. Maybe someday.
There’s so much misinformation about Linux and people just take the bait hook, line, and sinker. I don’t get that…
Linux was way easier than I expected it to be and I have an advanced use case (home recording studio) which took a lot of tinkering to figure out. I did all that tinkering in a dual-boot arrangement and once I was done and convinced my needs were met, I never looked back.
For the last year, every day I boot up my PC I’m happy.
It’s easy until it’s not. I’ve got a decent gaming rig and have been running Linux on it since I built it a couple of months ago. Once an update completely broke my sound but the next one fixed it. Otherwise it’s been fine.
On the other hand I set up a Raspberry Pi to be a print server and have been troubleshooting it since Christmas. It will print the first job just fine but subsequent jobs are stuck in the queue until I reboot. I’ve googled endlessly, tried everything I can think of and it just won’t work unless I constantly reboot. Same printer worked flawlessly in Windows 10 for years before I set up the Pi.
So, yeah. YMMV is the problem with Linux.
Just switched over to EndeavourOS from Win 10, expected an Arch-based nightmare. My main issue was Discord not working with mouse-based push to talks, so I bound my forward button on my mouse to the non-existant F24 and it’s fine. That’s it. That’s the most difficult hacky thing I’ve had to do (tried a few different packages to manage mouse input stuff and mucked around in some config files that were easy enough to understand).
Everything else has been seamless, updating is easy (so far), and I’m chillin playing games on Steam. 10/10.
I don’t really, but I enjoy that I can almost say btw I use Arch. Maybe someday.