I’m getting sick every day at this Microsoft Windows slowness and bloat. I am trying to use as much Linux VMs as possible. I feel so unproductive on Windows. I also tried installing Linux on the office laptop. The problem is that Windows is officialy supported and the Linux is DYI. Once the IT departament changes it will sync up with Windows but Linux can be broken and you are no longer able to work. Next job I want to have full Linux laptop or at least Mac.

Besides:

  • Microsoft Office
  • Active Directory
  • Some proxy and VPN bullshit

Everything seems manageable and even better on Linux.

What is your experience?

  • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Wdym with linux can be broken?

    Don’t mess woth the system and go atomic. Fedora atomic kde or gnome or wm

    • Kualk@lemm.ee
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      26 days ago

      Fedora atomic or not is nice.

      I got tired of manually installing Arch and was pleased with Fedora the most.

    • Psyhackological@lemmy.mlOP
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      26 days ago

      Changes from the upstream can make your system nonfunctional. For example VPN for remote connection. They change something, push to Windows but on Linux you need to figure it out by yourself.

      • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        26 days ago

        On linux you just put the ovpn into the settings. VPN connections are built into the system

        Yes, I have used systems that broke. Yes I followed bad advice and broke my system. Ever since not touching my system, that didn’t happen again. If I would touch windows, I would brik windows as well.

    • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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      26 days ago

      Wdym with linux can be broken?

      Linux mint kept harassing me to install the official drivers for my wireless card, so I did. It broke my ability to use WiFi.

      I told Linux while in presentation mode I did not want the screen to sleep, it took that as sleep after 5 minutes.

      Every time the laptop sleeps/restarts my screen resolution is borked, half the time the correct resolutions are not available and I have to disconnect all my monitors, restart, then connect the monitors.

      Most solutions I hear are use a different distro, learn command line, you should not be using Linux if you cannot fix this stuff.

      That is what i mean when I say Linux can be broken.

        • Psyhackological@lemmy.mlOP
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          26 days ago

          Yep, many people complain about Wayland and just graphic things in general. On Windows on the other hand sometimes I cannot click buttons. Example: unmute myself in Teams. Why? Because the docking station after some time cannot figure out where is the focus and also Electron sucks. And many other thing like weird behaviour with moving apps’ windows from one screen to another.

        • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
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          26 days ago

          I would argue that they happen way more on Windows. I’ve never had any of that happen to me on Linux (mostly a Fedora user) but plenty of times on Windows from 7 to 11.

          • Psyhackological@lemmy.mlOP
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            26 days ago

            The worst part is it is not Windows fault. The pure kernel and the system without any bloat works great. I tried AtlasOS once and I felt bad for Microsoft engineers that their work is being spoiled with greed, bloat, enshititifaction. Everything was going smoothly and flawlessly.

            But so many components are just… Hacky… Unnecessary… Just weird that it barely works especially so many companies don’t know what they are doing. Then the dependency hell happens of this software.

            Linux on the other hand is so much transparent.

      • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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        26 days ago

        Lol i think most of us Linux people just forget how basic most peoples computer usage is. An example, i wanted a program yesterday. Im on Manjaro and it was a .deb so i had to look it up in the AUR, clone it, compile and install it. All in command line. To someone who is used to that its not a big deal just some copy and paste and searching. To someone who is used to windows where you download .exe, and click install thats a herculean task.

        I disagree that people shouldnt use linux if they cant fix stuff on their own etc. I fully support making some distros entirely GUI and really easy to use because some people just need that and theres nothing wrong with not wanting to get all into the weeds setting up a computer. Thats the whole point of distros is to have various options for different use cases. I hope youll be able to find a linux setup that works for what you need. As of now a little bit of terminal may be needed even in the easier to use distros depending on what your doing tho.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        26 days ago

        If you’re on Mint still, that’s X11 fucking you over. AFAIK, Mint hasn’t moved to Wayland, though you might be able to install an experimental session, but I wouldn’t trust it like a distro that’s all-in on Wayland.

        I used to contend with monitors jumping around like a jack russell terrier with X11, never keeping settings, dropping out due to ACPI. Wayland has fixed pretty much everything I had going wrong with that stuff.

        Boot a live USB of some distros that default to Wayland like Fedora, and see how it reacts to screensaving, then make some choices from there.