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stathibus ◴[] No.35323176[source]
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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outsomnia ◴[] No.35323331[source]
What's this year's lock-in / excuse... games?
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protoster ◴[] No.35323490[source]
I use Ubuntu (as stock as possible) for my media center PC, here are some reasons off the top of my head that prevent me from using desktop Linux for anything more serious:

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.

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1. ParetoOptimal ◴[] No.35324128[source]
For bluetooth issues pipewire may be a magic bullet. It was for me.
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2. toastal ◴[] No.35324396[source]
I decided to switch back to analog headphones that don’t require firmware updates from proprietary apps only available on Android/iOS with tracking built in. You can’t get much simpler than inserting a wire into a jack—and as a bonus with detachable cables they can last over a decade & don’t have batteries I’d have to repair in two years but can’t because of how they’re designed to be e-waste.