I realized why I enjoy Linux so much and why I've stuck with it all these years (slight vent)... (kbin.social)

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In a world where nothing seems to work anymore, especially anything related to tech and/or customer service, getting on my laptop running Linux Mint just feels like a breath of fresh air. And that goes for just about any distro. It's nice to have something that works as it should and doesn't seem to go out of its way to cause frustration and irritation.

(P.S. Loblaw's/PC Express suck ass. Canadians will know what I'm talking about).

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[-] Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I had the opposite experience recently

I was into Linux back then when Valve launched TF2 for Linux (this was in 2013) in the end I broke Linux Mint (I don't know how but it stopped loading) so I said Fuck it and returned to Windows, after all I wanted to play all games, not only TF2

Recently I wanted to return to Linux since gaming is finally a thing and I had to constantly fix stuff...

-First of all If I changed between windows and linux, the motherboard clock was constantly changing. I had to fix it

-KeepassXC (the browser extension) could not connect with KeepassXC for some reason their windows counterparts worked flawlessly

-KDE somehow look uglier and less customizable than the KDE from 10 years ago

-The system tray kinda sucks

-Having the programs to run at system start up does not always works by changing the settings (you have to put a shortcut in a special folder)

-I never managed to make KDE connect to work properly(I connected my phone and Linux, but I never managed to receive the phone notifications on the PC)

-The OS was asking me to restart after every boot almost daily because it got updated (back then Linux asking for a reboot was a rare sight)

-and the cherry on top, one day the software stopped working and I did nothing weird. I could not use KeepassXC, nor steam, nor blender, etc... I asked for help first here and then on the official OS forums and nobody could find a fix other than "delete everything and reinstall the OS". Is something I could do, but is a pain in the ass. I'll have to fix everything that I already fixed again, I'll start receiving security emails because someone logged into my accounts (yeah, me, from linux), I'll have to configure everything again, etc...

I'll like to get rid of windows for ever, but is not easy

[-] sado1@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

KeepassXC should just work, if the browser's key was added to your KDBX database successfully. Other than that, I am surprised.
Yup, the motherboard clock thingy is a consequence of Windows storing local time, vs Linux storing UTC. It's a minor thing to fix in any of these systems, though.
Shortcuts thingy - never had a problem, although I did have a problem with KDE's keyboard shortcuts to run a program, which may be related workflow and maybe both were/are broken.
KDE Connect is surprising, as at least for me it worked flawlessly
The reboot thingy must be related to Linux Mint. I saw similar thing in EndeavourOS. One nice thing that some distributions implemented, is the ability to apply updates when you poweroff - from my point of view it's a less annoying solution than what you describe.
I can't comment on the 'cherry on top' one without more details.
I had a somewhat similar issue on my work laptop a short while ago, when I installed a program, which included a bugged XML settings file, then ran system update. When the updater tried to rebuild some caches (related to ie. icons, MIME etc.), some programs which use these caches simply stopped working. Reinstalling all packages with apt was the only thing that helped, to this day I do not even know all of the parts of my system that were broken.
But this was one of these issues that happen once per 5 years, and leave you scratching your head and asking "what the hell is going on here?". The difference from Windows is that in Linux, you can have a high understanding of system's internal modular components (at the cost of time needed to learn it), and regular system issues can be identified after a few minutes of Googling.

[-] RhetoricalRat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The KeepassXC-browser stuff is most likely from when Ubuntu started pushing snaps. For a while this was broken, and even if you installed Firefox from a PPA instead it still wouldn't work due to a default AppArmor policy blocking the connection.

[-] sado1@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Would be a good guess, but Gordon mentioned that in his latest try, he installed Arch-based EndeavourOS instead of Mint.

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