You can, but you have to de-upvote it once.

Got it for you.

UnixSocks is leaking

Leaving a job wit two weeks after an announcement probably.

Really slow download speeds?

That's when I finish my thesis. Migrating OS + thesis just begs for disaster.

Blessed be His webby feet and adorable flippers.

She wanted something that was an easy transition from Windows without having to learn a new interface. She is competent enough to install her own OS but wants to spend what little spare time she has on the computer gaming and not troubleshooting and maintaining. So I recommended she tries a few but primarily Bazzite with KDE and she liked it.

Heck, I'm running Fedora KDE right now but if I ever had to change I'd probably pick Bazzite too. Immutable sounds great for my purposes. I have zero intentions of messing around with my kernel.

They said it looks LIKE them ... could have easily been another one of the Olsen twins too .... 👀

Condolences on dating Elizabeth Olsen!

Woah, just now learning of this legendary third Olsen sister. She uhh... she goddamn cute. The twins always kinda creeped me out, this was an unforseen twist.

That’s why I daily drive Haiku OS.

Things have gotten MUCH better than they ever have been.

But unfortunately, it is still not as easy as just using an android phone.

But then again, it's a hard metric to judge by, because while some things are harder than they should be on Linux, other things are just.. Different, than what people are used to (Windows, Mac).

I use Linux, I use Android, but I still get frustrated when I need to use my wife's iPhone for pretty much anything, because I've never owned one and I never use it. Does that mean iPhone is inherently bad design? Many people would argue no, it's a good design in most cases. Just different. You've gotta learn the different ways of doing what you need to do. Although iPhone definitely has a few design flaws, in my opinion.

Likewise with Linux. Many modern distros are very user friendly. But no matter how good it is, people will always struggle when starting for the first time, because many things are just plain different. And also there are design holes/flaws.

You can say the same thing about any modern operating system you aren't familiar with.

My sister in law has a MacBook, and every time I need to use it, which is maybe once or twice a year, I struggle. Things aren't where I expect them to be. Things don't work the way I expect. Heck, some "standard" keyboard shortcuts are different. Does that mean it's a bad operating system? No, I just need to put the time and effort in to learn it, if I wanted to use it daily.

Linux has come a long way, and gets a bad rap. Yes it has a learning curve, and it might be more difficult because of all the different distros, but it's pretty similar to everything else.

I think he means, Android runs Linux and doesn't/can't be tweaked for the most part. Because you don't have root. So yes it's opposite of what most Linux users seek, but it sure seems to be stable for years. So you can be lazy "admin'ing" it

Work out of the box with some asterisks.

I did some distro hopping over the last couple of months and there were only a few that installed drivers and firmware for my Broadcom WiFi. Several had severe issues with Bluetooth audio. Keyboard backlight worked out of the box in less than half. Laptop speakers sound like crap without a lot of tweaking. Hardware acceleration for video doesn’t work out of the box on any distro I tried using the nouveau drivers for NVIDIA. Battery life is meh. No distro put the computer to sleep automatically on low battery by default. Websites can look like ass before installing Microsoft fonts. HDR support for screens is still limited.

Depending on your hardware, you can be lucky, need additional configuration, and will have to accept some limitations.

Yup. It's getting closer, but not quite there. This is one of the things that AI could probably help with. Grabbing all drivers and solutions done and shared by everyone across different distributions and repositories, and putting together all the adjustments and final touches needed upon installation, obfuscating the process from the user. Something that a phone with specific components and characteristics doesn't need, unlike a custom-made computer.

What exactly do you mean? Like a distro that just works well on a phone? Yeah proper Linux phones aren't quite there yet.

I think they meant distros that are for desktop but as easy, convenient, simple, to use as android, ios or even maybe macos

I wouldn't be lazy if I cared about how the cake is made. Wait, bad analogy. I do like cooking.

But I hope you know what I mean. Have someone else do it. Have the user just install and plug things and they work, absolutely nothing else to be done, no need for research, asking a friend, wizards, troubleshooting tools, or tutorials.

Lazy.

She’s perfect already.

Oh, and remember to sudo rm -rf /

/j, don't do that, it'll delete your whole system (for any newbies)

You can see the Rust they added to the kernel.

Pfft. It doesn't need a video card.

That setup is working fairly well these days though, NVIDIA Optimus configurations have been doing fine for at least a year now. Granted, my laptop is AMD + NVIDIA not Intel, but I don't think that matters.