It’s a phone service and business communications. I have to use it for work

You people are paying for Windows licenses?

Something like Weylus?

Samsung tablets have this functionality natively, along with drawing tablet connections

Looks interesting, reminds me of a pared down Plexamp

All I know is he’s got Ma Thias craving some socks

Good luck but as someone who is techy, Linux drives me insane every time I use it. Yes, it’s a skill issue. I think that’s sort of the nature of the problem regarding Linux adoption.

I’m capable, a quick learner interested in learning, good at following step by step instructions, and am really good at teaching others once I’ve learned it.

I’ve been on and off Linux for at least 8 years now and I feel like I end up hating it more and more each time I work with it. I will say, all of them are hobby projects of things that I just want, or tried to replace something from Windows by using my server.

I’m sure if it was just basic web browsing it would be fine, but I inevitably want to do something so I look for how to do it, follow a guide or the documentation and inevitably 5 steps in something goes wrong. Like, I genuinely can’t think of a single instance where I’ve been able to follow a step-by-step outside of the Steam Deck and have it actually work the first time.

That aside, usually the amount of networking that has to be done manually is what gets me, bonus points if you are double natted.

Docker has made things better but it’s still a pain in the ass for me. I enjoy working with computers and software but more often than not I do not enjoy my time working with Linux and by the time I finally get something working I am just wishing I hadn’t wasted all my time trying to get it working, and wishing that I didn’t care so much about this. Cause if I didn’t care I could happily live without home assistant and my server. But I do care, so I have to work on it.

It’s genuinely frustrating. Something as simple as Stable Diffusion - literally a git clone command - something I’ve set up a dozen times on Windows installs, just will not work on my server because it decides something is wrong following the install.

This whole time running Linux there have only been 2 things that I rarely have problems with. The first is Plex, since I first installed it on a RasPi using DietPi I’ve had nothing but good, smooth experiences. Once in a while there would be a hiccup but it was straightforward enough. The most difficult Plex has ever been is on my recent server build with an NVIDIA card, just getting hardware transcoding to work (which it at least recognizes the GPU now so I think it is). Oh, and stupid removeding permissions. God I hate permissions.

The other has been my Steam Deck, where I’ve had no issues through and through, from modding to random installs.

Anyway, I’m ranting like this because I’m so frustrated with Linux’s ease of use/access. Technology has gotten so much easier to use that it feels insanely archaic being forced to tell Linux every specific little thing to or not to do. What’s more frustrating is when you are following the documentation and it never mentions what to do if ______ doesn’t work, it just continues on.

So all told… As someone who is confident with technology and familiar with Linux, I just have a hard time believing that someone who can hardly use an iPhone will have an enjoyable experience trying to, say, watch Netflix on Linux. I’d like to believe it, maybe my experiences have me biased.

And before anyone comes at me, I hate and get frustrated with Windows too, but I use it because when I try and do something it works, usually in a quarter of the working time. Surprising considering it’s Windows, but of all the projects I’ve tried to do on both Windows has a much higher success rate. Like almost 100%. Off the top of my head the only thing I couldn’t get working was DizqueTV on a Windows-Plex server (which ended up being why I moved it to Linux). Funny enough, DizqueTV wouldn’t work on my Linux install either because of my ISP.

FOSS takes your time, not your money.

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Because it’d be annoying to type often

Everyone knows the real rite of passage is not just deleting Windows, but destroying the Linux install.

Bonus points if it’s both.

Something you haven’t touched on that is a big part of it too is sometimes users just want to discuss. I’ve found that mega threads, while kind, are generally useless for that.

The user is making the post because this is roughly their first discussion about distros and just reading through the other 15 posts with responses isn’t the same as your post and your questions being responded to, even if they are pretty much the same.

That ends up being the issue. The megathread doesn’t get consistent replies and so it feels like asking your questions into a void, making a comment on a different existing thread about the same thing feels like hijacking, and so we’re left with making a new post about their journey and questions.

Wait lol are people posting that to their comments to use it as claimed ownership? I did not realize that was the intent there

I agree, but this was instantly. Like sub-10 minutes. . .

Can you remember a password?

I tried helping someone with their steam deck and they got stuck because they didn’t know what they set their password to.

That aside, start with running Linux on a liveboot USB. It is very easy. See how it is for yourself and decide from there

TBH I’ve yet to come across any game I haven’t been able to play (aside from the obvious VR/occasional anti-cheat), most unsupported games just haven’t been tested for most cases

Edit: out of curiosity I actually went through my library to see just how many unsupported games I could download and try (again, not the VR ones lol).

I ended up getting caught up playing Revita all day and it says unsupported but it definitely works! For anyone else interested in that game, it is having some development quirks but there’s a public beta branch of it that seems to be the “definitive” version of the game.

Uploaded a control scheme template for the beta since there wasn’t one I liked :D

Then I tried an old DOS game Litil Divil which also worked just fine. I’d have tried some others but like I said, addicting game be addicting

SCRCPY is phenomenal.

Oh definitely, the Steam Deck is a great example of this - the preinstalled package manager handles desktop side updates while Valve handles the Steam side updates. You could never use the package manager and know none the wiser, and likewise you could pretty much never boot into gaming mode and it’s still all handled for you via package manager. Love my Steam Deck. I’ve experienced basically the same as you, pretty much nothing I’ve thrown at it fails, unless I were to cheat and try VR or something.

The only actual thing that made me sad was I planned on using it for portable Rocksmith but there are some pretty major issues with audio, even in a Windows install, but I was pretty much expecting that since the software already has issues. But that’s fine, it does stellar emulating switch games :)

If the idea of the app store we are talking about is like Windows or Apple, then it would include occasional OS related programs. So if it weren’t preinstalled that would be harder, that’s all.

You know, that probably is the closest thing Linux has. The only thing is it’s not preinstalled and I wonder how many of the actual programs are Linux compatible.

But otherwise, yeah it’s more an app store than the package manaer