Windows 11 is just Windows 10 with rounded corners, shittier menus, and even more spyware.
and this is why linux is gaining so much market share in the desktop space so quickly.
I think it’s mostly gaining market share cause Steam Deck
This is a report from web browsers to major websites so it doesn’t apply much to the steam deck. I doubt most people are using theirs as an everyday desktop
Is it? I still have yet to try a distro that works properly with multiple monitors and supports all the software I have.
I ditched windows 12 years ago and never looked back. Its gotten easier every year and I rarely if ever have to tinker with anything. It just works. Ive had the same arch (btw) install the whole time just moving the image to new computers whenever I upgrade hardware.
I think I have replacements, equivalents, or Linux versions for most of my software, it’s mainly the graphics drivers that suck with multiple displays. It constantly forgets the layout or leaves one of the displays inaccessible or just blank.
I also use DisplayLink for one of my monitors. I can’t remember if that even worked at all.
If that could finally be fixed, it might push me to Linux.
Windows 12
Oh god, have they made another one already?
“windows 10 will be the last version of windows” Remember that one? Pepperidge Farm remembers
For multimonitor setup you need to use Wayland and not X11
How are people supposed to know this? This is why Linux is hardly used for desktop. Everything requires custom knowledge.
They aren’t, wayland is replacing X11 completely.
X11 is legacy and is soon to no longer ship by default anywhere.
Eventually, probably, but Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE still don’t support it, so I wouldn’t call “soon.”
Given that Mint is one of the most recommended beginner distros, this presents a problem.
Cinnamon is pretty much the only major desktop environment that isn’t transitioning.
Mate and XFCE are both planning it and it seems relatively close for them, and since they’re going to be using wlroots, once it’s supported it won’t be long for x11 to be gone.
Also, I think gnome/kde make up the VAST majority of linux desktop usage.
I’ve been running multi monitor setups on Xorg for decades.
X11 can support multimonitor but it will break if the monitors have different resolutions. That’s why I suggested to use Wayland.
Nah. I use X11 with a 2k and an ultra wide. No problems at all.
There are a lot of cases that having different resolution can cause issues. I am glad you didn’t have problem but this doesn’t apply for everyone unfortunately
No, it’s different refresh rates.
Love Linux but that’s mostly steam deck pumping up numbers. Look at year over year desktop usage and it’s not spiking even though it would be cool if it did.
Android. Version 11 was peak android and every update is a downgrade. Updating from 11 to 12 brought:
- No performance upgrades
- Apps no longer closing, just minimizing
- Battery drains faster
- Dumb UI tweaks (springing swipe etc.)
- Removed options for notifications, vibration, share etc.
- Weather widget stopped respecting dark theme to show some idiotic animations
- and more
Version 13 only doubled down on these changes.
Constant nagging to update which you cannot disable, only postpone.
And of course you can’t go back. Would love reimage it with some custom rom but I’m afraid some apps can stop working (banking, pay, who knows what else). Fucking infuriating.
I was pretty down on swipe navigation, but now I’ve gotten used to it and like that I can navigate without having to reach to the bottom of my screen. I’m also very happy about Bluetooth LE but I don’t have an audio device that takes advantage of the codec yet. Anything that improves Bluetooth is great in my eyes.
My phone is on Android 8 and I could swear there was a dark mode option before that got removed in some update.
Returning to my PhD salary after a summer internship in industry
I lost everything I owned a year ago when I failed to make payments on a storage unit.
Moving somewhere with solid reliable internet to somewhere without even cell reception.
Back where I left I could download gta5 in probably 20 minutes. Now it took 20 minutes to download a calculator app.
30% of the time my texts don’t go through without telling me they didn’t go through, so I just drive to peoples homes and talk in person or go to Walmart to make calls
I’m fucking dieing. The only saving grace is I have a friend 2ish miles away with starlink. I set up an old phone to download files to a certain folder, then when it’s on LAN at my house to back up that folder over my local network to my desktop.
It may be worth investing in ubiquiti WISP equipment if your friend is fine with it! Then again, yall’d share bandwidth caps and such.
Before university I was a frontend webdeveloper earning 38000 SEK after university I had to downgrade to 34000 SEK to get the job I wanted. But with a degree I was able to get more and more over time and earn now much more that before uni, so it was still worth it.
If you want to talk about going from Reddit to Lemmy, probably lack of infinite scrolling, so I went ahead and made a Firefox addon called Lemmy Infinite Scroller. It’s 11 lines of code. It’s literally an addEventListener for the scroll event. Apparently it can take up to 3 weeks for it to be approved and end up in the Firefox Add-ons store, so I won’t link it here, but it’s coming.
edit: A few hours later, it’s up to 40 lines of code because of handling race conditions. It should work well under normal use now but if people scroll too fast it could cause problems loading two pages ahead instead of one. It’s obviously not ideal compared to an official implementation but it’s something at least, unless it gets officially implemented in Lemmy before my add-on gets approved. lol
Why coding yourself a corporate practice that encouraged addition? Why you felt we were lacking that stuff?
It’s a feature that makes the website more convenient for me to use. I like to work on software I know I will use myself, and then I share it with the rest of the world in case somebody else wants to use it too.
I’m sure Lemmy will get optional infinite scrolling implemented with a better implementation than mine, but it was a fun afternoon project (started out as a quick 30 minute project before the race conditions) the day before starting my new remote dev job.
I think more options and user choice is a good thing.
But addition is such a positive thing.
It certainly doesn’t subtract from the experience, that’s for sure.
Coming home from college for the summer and no longer having gigabit upload speeds. Can’t wait to go back and be able to self host all my stuff from my dorm.
Control panel is always still there if you want the classic style settings.
Not really. A lot of it has been neutered. Updates were moved to the settings “app” in 10. Now you can’t even manage printers without that stupid app in 11.
I never recovered from the 3g network being shut down.
I had a great setup with a 3g modem & a 3g phone. sms messages from friends would come to my laptop when I was sitting at my desk, and when I was away would be forwarded to my phone. I had all sorts of commands I could execute on my server from my phone via sms. Home automation, media player, etc.
I replaced the 3g modem with a 4g model from the same company and… no one would give me cheap sms-only service. Everyone considered it a “hot spot router”, so 10x the monthly fee for service. No way. (The REALLY frustrating thing there was that the 4g modem was much nicer from my perspective. Talking to the 3g modem took a few hundred lines of C. Talking to the new one was a 20 line shell script.)
Also, 4g coverage apparently sucks here. I have to walk out to the front of the building to MAYBE get a signal.
I’ve given up and switched to xmpp over wifi, which works great in some ways, but doesn’t replace everything I had working with the 3g setup.
