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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (17 children)

    "Linux is ready" - which distro? Fractional (sometimes even non-fractional) scaling is a mess. Most things that go beyond changing the wallpaper image need some command line stuff. Linux Desktop is for nerds and definitely not ready.

    Yes it works fine if you know what you are doing but most people don't. There is often not one thing of doing stuff, but hundreds. It already starts with the selection of a distro how would a "non-computer-person" decide on a distro. Just try them out? Install twenty different distros because reasons?

    Unless resources are pooled into a single distro to polish it and make a defacto standard for ordinary people, homes and offices, Linux is not ready. If I need the freaking terminal because I want to see the day of the week next to the date it's not ready.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (16 children)

    You could just said you havent used linux, muchacho.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Linux is a kernel and not an operating system. My phone is runs Android, two of my root servers run debian bookworm, my living room media center runs Ubuntu, so I guess I have used Linux at least a little bit. But no distro I've seen (tried even more on some VMs) is really enough for me to suggest it to anybody that isn't a "computer-person".

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I still haven’t got discord wayland screen sharing working. (No audio)

    Still on vencord in the interim

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

    Weird that it says canary is alpha and beta is ptb but I am aware of canary so I’ll have a look at it

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    wayland clipboard

    Lol

    Also kdenlive was still a pain for me to work with, but that was mostly because of its layout, shorcuts, and wording of some features.

    Otherwise yeah, we've made it pretty far.

    [–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

    Thanks to the likes of Proton, gaming on Linux is a hell of a lot better than it was ~5 years ago. You can actually do it now for the most part without to much fuss in my experience as long as you stick to Steam.

    But once you leave Steam or get something brand new made by an EA type and have to lean on third party implementations of Proton or raw Wine to get things working it gets a lot worse.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Agreed, but I think it's important to note that that isn't because of a shortcoming of Linux, it's because those companies are incentivized to support platforms that are more suitable for enabling massive profits, that's what it seems like to me anyways.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Getting something brand new from EA is painful on any platform

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Linux has been ready since 2008. Literally not had a single real problem since Ubuntu 7.10 kept turning my monitor off while booting. Everything just works and has for 17 years now.

    Every problem I see people have now (IRL not online) is 'I don't like the default theme' tier nonsense.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    It might be nonsense to you, but that's the first thing people see. No matter how amazing you business is, if your business card is a handwritten phone number on a piece of toilet paper, nobody will call.

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Which distro has full HDR support?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

    as far as I know you still have to set environment variables and use gamescope with a flag to enable it for games, but general desktop stuff anything with kde and I think also gnome will have a checkbox in the display settings.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Every single one that ships Wayland compositor that supports it. I'd say β€žfinished” is still a bit of a stretch though, since HDR support in apps is still quite limited and the only way to play Windows games with HDR is via Gamescope.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (12 children)

    A what compositor - try to explain to people, that just want to open a freaking word document, what you just said. Explain to them why libre office completely messes up the formating. "Via gamescope", "Wayland", "wine" whatever. Doesn't sound ready to me.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Last time I checked only KDE and Gnome support HDR. (For gnome it is still experimental)

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    A Photoshop or affinity would be nice

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

    That's never going to happen

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Yes, affinity suite and dxo photolab or true alternatives is whats keeping me from switching :/

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

    You getting downvoted for this is hilarious.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Fractional scaling is still a mess

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

    I dont know wtf youre using. KDE has it perfect.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Half my peripherals not working/having linux software support is a major blocker for me. Plus a ton of QOL stuff or ways of doing stuff that I've gotten used to on Windows.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    That's wild. What peripherals are you using that don't work in Linux?

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