I’m gonna be honest I’ve never had a flatpak version of something ever work properly.
There was even one popular media player that only came in flatpak form or otherwise build from source.
So obviously, for no reason at all, it barely functioned compared to other applications I had already tried.
Congrats to you people put there somehow running things like Steam with no problems lmao.
Microsoft
Ah so that’s where they pulled the run0 idea out of their asses from.
brb gonna go tell RedHat to make a fork lol.
Syncthing for automated syncing (highly reccomend)
https://github.com/schollz/croc for quick and lazy file sends (auto nat & proxy included)
sftp get from phone if it’s like one thing (various ssh/sftp apps on gplay and fdroid)
I’m sure Nvidia will become stable on wayland by the time xfce also migrates lol
Linux Mint if you’re unsure
Fedora if you’re brave and want the full Toolbox
Please not Ubuntu. It has enough of its own issues that it originally turned me away from Linux.
Oh and KDE for the desktop environment if you want great out of box windows like UI if you go with Fedora. Mint comes with cinnamon which is also pretty good. xfce if you want to run linux on a potato.
I don’t know why but this gave me the idea of running meterpreter locally lmao
I meant in the sense of the UI lol.
Gnome and kde are both way ahead in that they offer a proper app library and integration with devices.
Xfce is just a bunch of apps stuck together that happen to be good enough on their own, but aren’t really interconnected.
I mentioned compiz because iirc it was one of the first compositors to outshine all the fancy window effects and behavior of Mac and Windows and still be configurable for both. Things like app switchers, snap windows, workspaces, etc. It just feels more intuitive to use than stock gnome.
I currently use an unholy combination of xfce with compiz, but once xfce upgrades to Wayland, I’ll probably get Wayfire to replace compiz.
I feel like this video exposes the restrictions of both desktop environments compared to already completed solutions like KDE, XFCE, and Compiz which can all be configured to be 1:1 with Mac or 1:1 with Windows.
I can personally say going from windows to stock GNOME on both Ubuntu and Fedora was definitely not a nice experience at all.
HDR is only experimental on gnome and kde with weston not having an implementation.
I think 10 bit color depth hasn’t even been worked on much.
VRR I think is about finished although X11 has it too.
And the Nvidia wayland support is slowly improving although still full of bugs and stability issues.
All hail compiz 3d cube lol
I already posted this before but a friend did chmod -R user /usr/bin and broke every suid and guid bin including sudo lol.
Personally have accidentally shadow deleted /home via an incorrect bind mount so I couldn’t log into my own user.
Careful you’ll anger the mob here that forgot what intuitive design is
Interesting (and poorly paraphrased) story about a successful Linux migration:
Several years ago someone made a post or cross-posted on r/sysadmin where OP (lead sysadmin) was in meeting with management and they complained about windows and the licensing costs.
OP jokingly passed a comment about switching to Linux and management actually thought he was throwing out a real idea.
Upon explaining the much lower cost due to FOSS and maybe only requiring a small contract for consulting/support, management actually agreed to his idea.
He successfully transitioned the entire company to OpenSUSE which he determined was the best enterprise distro for desktop use.
The other important part was how he handled the transition. iirc he got it going by first offering it to tech savvy departments who were ecstatic to get new stuff, so he lined it up with a hardware upgrade.
Naturally the rest of the departments heard about it and also wanted the new stuff which locked them into using Linux.
There were several holdouts clinging to Windows, but with the majority showing success, management forced them to change as well.
For his use case, most of the employees were using web apps, so almost no additional desktop apps were required.
Not too relevant for desktop users but NFS.
No way people are actually setting it up with Kerberos Auth
casually puts on Fedora hat
Lol I still have the CDs that came with my first built PC parts just to install the drivers because windows would never use the correct one even when the OEM had them very easily online.
Have a complete CD for my monitor, GTX 750ti, and motherboard. Actually had to use mobo CD to get ethernet working (killer ethernet e2400) and I think I might have used nvidia CD or just gone straight to GeForce download.
I can’t believe I can actually say linux has had a working kernel module since at least 2013 but Windows 10 didn’t
Only moral I got from this was to never use Ubuntu lmao
all hail latest kernel modules, and akmod/dkms
If it’s something easy to fix or add, worth the time to make a pull request.
Otherwise mostly bug reports and feature requests lol
Stop using GNOME as de facto default standard. Fr I despise this crap
I seriously don’t understand how anyone from windows is going to find stock GNOME even remotely intuitive or useful.
What kind of sick bastard thought “Yeah you know what, people don’t need minimize and expand buttons.”
And then on top of that, they put in the most basic default modern android chromeos looking shell/menu as if this is some mobile OS that runs all its apps on the JVM and that everyone knows trackpad kung fu.
For such a “simple” desktop, it eats through ram like it’s KDE with all the fancy animations enabled.
Frickin Compiz solved the problem of performance and features over a decade ago. Use the god damn thing. If you need wayland, then at least KDE please.
If you’re coming from Mac, only then will GNOME feel somewhat familiar because of the shell. Otherwise, please just make the download either an ISO with several DEs or a menu to select the DE first. Or at the very least, make a better default GNOME setup.
Would be hilarious