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I encounter quicks and weirdnesses on the windows laptop for work, which won’t even fucking properly sleep or don’t fucking update by itself even after trying to stop it for a while, rather than on Linux.

Can you name any such quirks and annoyances on Linux specifically? Because I can give you plenty on windows, while Linux the past 10 years or so maintains my sanity.

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ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sleep mode that doesn’t work consistently, WiFi driver issues, printer driver issues, touchpad driver issues, several different wonky ways to install programs instead of just double-clicking an .exe and pressing “next-next-OK”, random shutdown of programs for no reason or error codes…the list goes on. And on topnof that, all the stuff that people are used to using that just doesn’t run on Linux at all.

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- JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I love Linux, but I admit these are valid. I’ve had some of these same issues.
  
  Sleep mode that doesn’t work consistently, I haven’t had any issues with sleep in on my devices, but I have in the recent past on previous hardware.
  
  WiFi driver issues, printer driver issues, touchpad driver issues, My WiFi doesn’t work at all on my desktop. Though it’s worked on a live image from another distro so seems likely to be an issue with the distro’s distributed kernel, not a Linux one. I run a rolling release distro so won’t be that the kernel is too old. But don’t care so haven’t troubleshot it much. My printer requires the use of vendor provided drivers, which are only available for some distros. It works, but not a solution I’m happy with. Never had touchpad issues.
  
  several different wonky ways to install programs instead of just double-clicking an .exe and pressing “next-next-OK”, I think package repos > collecting and installing your software piecemeal from all over the place. But having to deal with repos, flatpaks, appimages, etc. can be daunting.
  
  random shutdown of programs for no reason or error codes Sounds like an OOM process kill maybe? That’ll show in your kernel logs if so. But no immediate visual feedback.
  
  …the list goes on. And on topnof that, all the stuff that people are used to using that just doesn’t run on Linux at all. If there’s proprietary software that doesn’t run on Linux that someone wants/needs to run and there aren’t any viable alternatives then yeah, probably a non-starter. There’s wine of course but it can be a crapshoot. No shade intended towards the project. It’s amazing what it can do, even if it can’t do everything.
  
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Trail@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Which reminds me. I can’t even move the taskbar to the left of the screen anymore since windows 11 was forced upon me. Pffft.

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