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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. herbst ◴[] No.35324130[source]
Ubuntu is well known for blowing their operating systems up. It's not unusual to disable a few things on a fresh Ubuntu.

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