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How Does Linux Work? | Greg Kroah-Hartman
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As compared with the excellent Windows documentation, UI and faultless drivers.
you don't, why would you? use kde they have built in stuff for this... you said you use bazzite
the documentation doesn't say to use xrandr to do that, it gives clear instructions you didn't follow.
yes X11 is a mess, always has been.
what are the real barriers to entry? I doubt its finagling with the more than outdated X11 session manager when we have Wayland, every Distributor ships Wayland (exclusively).
Dude I started using Linux at the time of CRTs and xorg.conf, I remember about xrandr, but it's far away in the past.
Not a single mention of xrandr on that page. Bazzite uses Wayland, not X11
you're unlucky and such issues are rare, except nvidia problems I'd say issues are actually less frequent. i have helped countless people install linux.
do you honestly think your single experience is representative? do you not think i could find countless reports of windows doing the same?
To take a serious stab at this post
Do you know it isn't? sometimes rare things happen to you.
who has ever said that to you?
are you aware that if you ask questions nicely and with humbleness instead of like a jerk you'll get different styles of answers?
that's fixed and long passed us, they were new and experimental for a while but now they're mostly the default.
I feel like all of this is a red herring.
How do Windows users fix a problem? They Google the problem and get the solution.
The EXACT same thing works in Linux. Has for a long, long time.
The only time it DOESN'T is when you either don't know what you're trying to do, in which case no power on EARTH is going to be able to help you, or you're trying to do something so obscure and obtuse that a Windows user wouldn't be doing it either.
Do you have statistics to prove otherwise?
based on you not reading documentation and then getting mad at it in the other post i'm inclined to agree