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Julia Evans

also, if you *used* to use Linux on your personal computer but don't anymore, what made you switch away from it?

for me: I'm on a break from Linux right now because I was having some extremely annoying power management issues I couldn't figure out (it kept running out of battery while asleep), and there was some Mac/Windows-only software I wanted to use

5 Jul 2023 at 18:31 | Open on social.jvns.ca
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Julia Evans

I cannot be the only person who finds linux on the desktop annoying and hard to use sometimes, I love linux but it can really be the worst

5 Jul 2023 at 18:43 | Open on social.jvns.ca
kate

@b0rk every once and a while something small but super annoying runs me off. Historically it's been a lot of small bluetooth issues or issues with my Wacom tablet. Last one was a small screen flicker at high GPU usage. Although that one just sent me from Ubuntu to Mint.

6 Jul 2023 at 2:17 | Open on federatedfandom.net
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@b0rk the only thing keeping me from removing Windows is that I am doing reverse engineering with Windows-specific things (WinForms mostly, sometimes WPF) and… um… I don’t want to hunt down DLLs for those just so I can put them down in ILSpy or whatever. And I think AutoCAD + Solidworks too.

6 Jul 2023 at 2:17 | Open on qoto.org
Anna e só

@b0rk I love Linux—used it daily for more than a decade—, but the deterioration of accessibility tools made me look for another OS for daily use.

I‘m partially sighted, so I need to use magnification tools. I got to the point I either couldn’t read what was on my screen or would get extremely nauseous due to the abruptness of movement in the zoomed in area when moving the cursor.

I was very surprised when I learned macOS’ offerings had everything I was looking for. I made the switch last year.

6 Jul 2023 at 2:20 | Open on friend.camp
Ben Shapiro

@b0rk power management and battery life.

6 Jul 2023 at 2:20 | Open on learningscienc.es
bignose

Certainly @b0rk the desktop experience of Gnome and KDE can both be quite annoying at times.

But having used MacOS and Windows 11 in recent day jobs, those are *far* more annoying, *all the time*, and the free-software desktops are a relief by comparison.

6 Jul 2023 at 4:29 | Open on fosstodon.org
bignose

@b0rk In conclusion: computers are way too complex and getting one system useable by a variety of people is a big problem

and at least the free-software ones do not have "extract value from our users" as an ever-present design goal.

So the free-software ones tend, more than the proprietary monopoly ones, to be designed by people who at least want to meet people's real needs without screwing them over for private gain.

6 Jul 2023 at 4:33 | Open on fosstodon.org
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