Linux is fucking awesome

[coldwater@lemmy.ca]

I should've used it sooner rather than last year when they announced AI integration to Windows. Every peripheral I tried is just worked without needing to install drivers, and it works better and faster than on Windows, just like today when I tried to use my brother's 3D printer expecting disappointment, but no, it just connected and was ready to print right away (I use Ultimaker Cura), whereas on my brother's Windows computer I have to wait like 20 seconds; sometimes I have to disconnect and reconnect it again for it to see and ready to use. Lastly, for those who are wondering, I use Vanilla Arch (btw), and sorry for bad English.

[shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Every time I see someone write "sorry for my bad english" their writing is several times better than many of the native speakers I interact with on a daily basis.

[flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz]

Welcome!

For a while now Linux has been better at most personal computing things except gaming. And for server uses an even longer time.

There are some specific hardware/software situations where you'll need Windows but it's unlikely to happen at home. Unless you have very peculiar hobbies.

[chris@lemm.ee]

Gaming is my struggle, right now. On x11, I get stable framerates, but even though my benchmarks show 60+ fps, it sure looks lower to my eye. On Wayland, gameplay is smooth, but I keep getting this weird thing where after 20-30 minutes of gameplay I’ll get this weird input lag, where my mouse movement stops and then “catches up” every second or so, resulting in choppy gameplay despite the smooth framerate.

If I can figure that out, I’d happily drop my Windows partition.

[tfowinder@lemmy.ml]

You went straight from windows to vanilla arch ?

Quite impressive

[rtxn@lemmy.world]

mouse movement stops and then “catches up” every second or so

I had that issue with a wired G502 mouse. It was caused by an excessive polling rate, and setting it to 125 Hz fixed it.

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

When I TA-ed, I swear 75% of the non-Americans students wrote almost perfect papers whereas less than 25% of Americans couldn’t even write and less than 5% had comparably good essays. Honestly depressing.

[datavoid@lemmy.ml]

I wish I could experience this pain free Linux I keep hearing about on this website. Programs constantly stutter and glitch out, and if the computer goes to sleep while running my Linux partition it absolutely will not wake up again. I know this is a skill issue, but I've already spent many hours troubleshooting this... I've tried several distros as well. Even the steam compatibility everyone raves about only seems to work for me if I don't use wayland. I can say with certainty that the average person would be completely unwilling to deal with the experience I have had.

[chris@lemm.ee]

Interesting! I’ll give that a try.

[highduc@lemmy.ml]

I think this "it just works" experience depends much on the hardware and software you use.
But no matter what, in the long term, if you're not willing to put in time and learn how stuff works, how to troubleshoot, how to check logs, use the terminal, etc. I think you're going to have a bad time and be disappointed.

I've used Linux exclusively for the past 10 years, both at home and at work, and I wouldn't advise anyone who wants a care-free "it just works" experience. Linux is not good at that, and I think anyone who claims it is does more harm than good.

Linux is good for tinkering, self-hosting stuff, connectivity and flexibility. Most people want their games to work, not this. For me, I love it and I use it for everything including sim racing and VR games.

[datavoid@lemmy.ml]

I am more willing to learn things than the average user I'd say - I work in IT and answer incredibly stupid questions more or less daily. Also, im not a shell expert, but I definitely know my way around bash/zsh/cmd/PS, given the system. I have also been using Linux on and off for around 15 years as well - I had things work well in the past.

I'm guessing my custom built PC might be making things harder. The Nvidia card probably doesn't help, but I feel like my MOBO is probably responsible for my sleep issues. Maybe I just need to try Pop again, I'm currently running NixOS which is my favourite OS in theory, but in practice configuration is a brute force guessing game.

[highduc@lemmy.ml]

I haven't had as bad of an experience with Nvidia as people say - but ofc your mileage may vary depending on your compositor, the apps you use, the distro you use, etc.

I also experienced issues with my system completely freezing after waking up from sleep - for me the issue turned out to be due to bluetooth/wifi drivers, and with this workaround things work fine again: https://github.com/alimert-t/suspend-freeze-fix-for-mt7921e/tree/main
My card is mt7922 (found that out with lshw -C network) but I guess it's having the same issue, because after applying that fix it all works now.

It was really annoying and it took me a while to find the issue, because if you just try to google it you find lots of people with lots of different issues, all manifesting in the same way.
If you're lucky this is your issue too, and the fix above should do it.

[shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

American culture is one of the few I've found to be actively "anti-knowledge". It's not just their educational system being bad, it's a genuine cultural tendency of not just dismissing experts, but straight out refusing to learn and snobbing those who do.

[majorhavoc@programming.dev]

Yeah. I've been trying to get the word out.

I've been screwing with Linux for decades, but somewhere along the line, Linux got easier and more reliable than Windows. I was as surprised as anyone. My last couple Linux installs were a cake walk.

I also like Linux more than Mac, but I'm a tinkerer at heart, and Mac's (relative) lack of fiddly bits (customization options) has kept me from staying on it long.

[bilb@lem.monster]

Anti-intellectualism seems to be resurgent in recent years. Its the worst I've seen since the Bush 2 era, and it's all pevasive.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Can anybody comment on their experience using Arduino and ESP with Linux? Especially does Linux handle COM ports better than Windows? There's a seemingly immortal problem of COM ports becoming unusable until you go into Device Manager and uninstall them (again and again) - and if that doesn't work, reboot Windows. I experience this less often now than say 5 or 6 years ago, and sometimes it's my fault, but jeez.

[fluxx1@lemm.ee]

Yes, com ports work way better than in windows. I've done a lot of embedded development on linux and it's way more pleasant than in windows. One thing you do have to keep in mind is that access to com ports (USB and real) requires root access by default, but once you've set the udev rule up, it becomes accesible to normal users and/or group of users. After that, it works flawlessly. Android dev also works great and imo better than on win. Proprietary jtags may be an issue, but I've never actually had an unsolvable situation.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Thank you, that's massively helpful! Pasting your comment into my ESP32 project notes so when I soon move to Linux I can remember to figure out the udev rule and jtags.

[lemming741@lemmy.world]

I've had wemos d1 boards from AliExpress show up as a brltty and the braille teletype driver grabs the device. Just something to look out for on some distros

[storageb@lemmy.one]

Running this command was the only thing required for me to get access to the com ports. After that, everything worked perfectly.

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

(note that $USER is part of the command - do not replace that with your actual username)