I don’t disagree but I also want to flip that around. I’ve been recommended stuff which turned out to be a massive waste of time because it was not ready for general use yet, despite people telling me how easy it was. Then after complaining how that just wasted hour of my time people said "it’s free you are not entitled to anything.

If Linux isn’t ready for general users then we aren’t entitled to waste their time by saying it is.

I walked him through how things worked once

And there’s why it worked.

X is a disaster. Wayland is an awesome display server but its input is a shit show for legacy software and software built around MS Windows quirks and this is a problem.

This is very true, but even after all this tine, somehow Wayland still doesn’t support many basic features and programs, making people (including myself) hesitant on the switch

Yes patience is important but people actually want to make the switch nowadays, but they still run into many issues which really need to get fixed in order for Linux to be a viable desktop OS.

Most good programs aren’t designed by billion dollar teams but by a few people (or even a single one) who pay good attention to UX and don’t treat it like a fifth class citizen. Linux is allowed to have the guardrails fall off for users who want it, but it’s 2026 and the experience for novice users is still worse than Windows 20 years ago.

Linus doing the world a massive favor by showing the flaws of Linux and still getting so much flak for it by the average Linux user is ridiculous.

Previous targets seem pretty good.

Not sure why they’re going for Ubuntu now but maybe they can kill snaps once and for all

Yes and your argument is that one is superior because it shows hotkeys

Should only command line programs show their keyboard shortcuts?

Why doesn’t my Lemmy comment box show shortcut hints? How will I know the shortcut for copy, cut and paste? I tried pressing alt+6 but it did nothing. Curse you Ecmascript from 1997!

Yeah cutting text with ctrl+k instead of ctrl+x (because that’s exit) and copying with alt +6 instead of ctrl+c.

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Micro doesn’t need to list the shortcuts because it uses similar shortcuts to notepad and you don’t have to do weird ctrl+x to exit but ctrl+q (for quit). Also copy and pasting isn’t a nightmare in it.

micro for sure. But I dont use it as a main editor. Just for quick text file adjustments.

That’s who micro exist. And is so much better.

Hot take: Windows handles this stuff so much better.

I tried that once but there were so many dependencies that it became a nightmare. Eventually I just went back to Ubuntu from all the headaches because I want to use software not struggle to compile it.

Not to mention every tutorial using apt as an installer and having to replace it with “yum” or “pacman” at every copy paste gets tedious very quickly.

Containers are trash. Always have issues passing through devices like GPU or USB. I’ve tried it for a while but at some point you want to get work done instead of having to find out how to pass through all devices

No things like ROS and other stuff.

I never understood how people use anything bit Ubuntu LTS since every tutorial is based on that but I’m probably ignorant.

Time to wait another year and a half before this is finally supported out of the box by every framework

No refunds

Nice. I mean. massieve

Yeah I’m not going to give this guy his desired victim role. He put a lot of effort into make privacy invading pull requests. Death threats and doxxing is too far but he deserves some insults.