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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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bytehowl ◴[] No.35323778[source]
I have recently put Fedora with KDE on my work laptop and here are a couple of reasons off the top of my head (I believe I have come across more, but can't remember them right now) why I'm currently not considering switching from W10 on my home stuff:

- 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.

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1. haunter ◴[] No.35324287[source]
I installed Fedora recently and 30s in the first bug: dnfdragora missing the update button

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/dnfdragora-missing-up...

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2. sph ◴[] No.35324744[source]
dnfdragora is terrible. Either you use GNOME Software/Discover, or dnf from the command line.

Just don't use dnfdragora, and it is not an official GUI anyway.