It's gets easier and easier every year to want an alternative to Windows, but it remains impossible to actually switch, at least for me.
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One thing I’ve noticed is remmina isn’t quite the same as mstsc windows Remote Desktop but I think it is high praise that I could even get to the point of someday expecting it…
Shame that Microsoft haven't given Linux Office 365, because Microsoft ♥ Linux. Right?
Bluetooth connection to my headset sometimes causes the entire system to hard lock, requiring physical reset.
Sound sometimes goes static-y, have to reboot to fix.
I had to download a third party tweaker app to disable a sound output device that I didn't want to use.
Tearing of full screen video, I don't even remember how I fixed it.
A notification about something called "snap store" keeps coming up and needs a command line fix to dismiss.
The built-in app store keeps notifying me about a firmware update for my wireless keyboard. I'm not interested, and there is no way to dismiss it.
Firefox on Linux has an obnoxious habit of refusing to open a new tab until I restart it for updates (that were installed automatically, not through the system updates app). Sure, I want my browser up-to-date, but this is not an issue on Windows where it will never force you to restart the application. I looked around why this is the way it is, and the answers were that it had to do with how Linux works.
And, yeah, games.
For my basic needs, I've found that the office web apps actually work much better than the classic ones. Outlook, in particular, is much snappier. I use it daily on Firefox on Linux for work, since they're married to MS.
So, as another poster said, my solution is to have two pcs. A laptop with Linux I use basically all the time, and a desktop with an actual GPU for when I want to play or mess around with my photography.
This arrangement works well enough, since for my everyday needs the iGPU is more than enough, and I would rather not lug around a 10-pound brick with a dedicated GPU. And, in my particular situation, it's actually cheaper since my desktop is a hand-me-down from work which only required a new GPU, which at the time was beefier and cheaper than what I could have had in a laptop.
I have a BT keyboard (keychron), mouse (mx master 3s) and two headphones. They've all always connected instantly under Linux.
The headsets can use LDAC and aptx HD, which are both unsupported under Windows but work perfectly under Linux.
The mouse has noticeable lag under Windows, while under Linux it's indistinguishable from its wireless (non-BT) dongle. Installing the Logitech app and drivers doesn't change anything.
The keyboard and headphones usually take a while to connect under windows.
Except for the mouse, I've had these same peripherals on multiple PCs, all with Intel wireless cards, and all have exhibited the same difference in behavior between Windows and Linux.
> I had to download a third party tweaker app to disable a sound output device that I didn't want to use.
This is weird, I can disable any and all sound peripherals from the pulse audio control panel. I don't use ubuntu, though, so not sure what its default apps are.
- I don't game that much anymore, but yeah, I hear games are still far from 100% on Linux.
- There are various graphical issues linked to fractional scaling (I think), such as random lines appearing near the edges of windows or windows leaving behind lines when being dragged around, etc.
- My external monitor doesn't appear to be affected by energy management settings (dimming/sleeping after some time, etc.) whatsoever.
- There is no option to disable the touchpad when a mouse is connected.
- Middle mouse button is paste instead of autoscroll with seemingly no global way to change it (I wonder who came up with THAT genius bit of UX).
- A lot of things can still only be achieved via the terminal.
The markup for Apple hardware is really not big at all. They just don't have a budget option. If you compare macbooks to really any competing device the prices are similar (and the competing device will be much worse). Same situation when comparing iPhone to flagship Android. In fact, new iPhones are often cheaper than new flagship Android phones.
There was once a time where what you said is true, where a truly great Windows laptop could be had for half the price or less than a mac, and a flagship Android phone could be had for half the price or less than an iPhone, but that was in the past. Now, there is almost price parity.
There's a reason numerous governments and industries have switched over. I suspect you are vastly overestimating the complexity and trouble you would face in switching.
One thing I vaguely remember is bluetooth being started with more options that you generally need. Can't remember what options I removed but using a more bare Bluetooth driver often fixes things.
You can control your sound output via alsa, usually a alsa control is shipped with Ubuntu.
Annoying you with snap is one of those typical Ubuntu things why people stopped recommending it.
So yeah, try using not Ubuntu
Unix was the first to start using 3 button mice as standard, almost a decade before they really showed up in Windows world, and paste on middle mouse click has always been the standard behaviour in the Unix world, so changing it now would be very weird for *nix users. Whether Linux should follow the common Unix defaults or Windows defaults for their UI/UX has been a long running debate in the community.
I would personally be really confused and annoyed if I sat down at a Linux machine and middle click didn't paste, because that is the behaviour I've been seeing for literally 25 years.
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/dnfdragora-missing-up...
Either way, it should be a configurable option, not hardcoded deep inside the bowels of the system, which appears to be the case as far as I have been able to determine.
However for years the main thing holding me back is the lack of a proper RDP alternative. And yes I've tried them all, nothing comes close to RDP on Windows.
I use it all the time to connect home from work, so I can separate work from personal stuff, as well as from my laptop when I'm away. I just have Firefox installed on my laptop, RDP takes care of the rest.
I did manage to enable follow focus a while ago, but it didn't behave as I was used to (I don't remember the details), so I disabled it.
Just don't force us to use the same behaviour by default.
Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V is superior. The shortcuts are easily accessible and you can use it to select and replace a specific part in the middle of text. If you try that with MMB-pasting, you will just overwrite your clipboard with the part of the text you want to replace, due to the selection-to-clipboard feature.
The answers from your "quick Google" only provided solutions for specific programs, solutions with self-admitted performance issues and a solution for X11 when I'm on Wayland. At a glance, the latter two look pretty hacky too.
Lastly, stop putting words in my mouth. I have said my issue was that the "Middle mouse button is paste instead of autoscroll with seemingly no global way to change it" and "I just wish there was an OPTION to change them". It is YOU who is forcing your defaults on me, without even a consideration that my preference may also be valid.
I think the only issues have been some formatting options are hidden, I honestly don't remember them because it mostly works.
It was more a cheap jab that they don't want to actually support Linux.
Hell, my last two HP laptops, nothing fancy, had worse hardware support on Windows than on Linux (where they were working 100% since day one), even with all the HP drivers installed. Took them about a year to fix this. So even "don't need to futz around with drivers" is no longer a reason.
And I think MS realizes this, seeing that recent .net things work on Linux, MSSQL Server now works on Linux (but not the studio, though). So, I guess they're just trying their damnedest to stay at least somewhat relevant. Companies are usually a bit slower to change user-facing things, so I guess MS won't go out of their way to help with the switch.