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Trainguyrom

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  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • There was one time years ago I was working on some unholy mess of mods for Transport Fever and the game kept crashing and bringing the whole X session down with it, and instead of just rebooting like a sane person I instead started a new X session on a new terminal session. I think I got up to 4 or 5 dead x sessions before I finally finished sorting out my mods and rebooted to clean it all up

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • Really just needs one vendor to provide a unified way of configuring and managing a fleet of laptops/desktops. All of the bits exist, just needs someone to bring it all together

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • That's kinda the limitation with Cinnamon, it's not as customizable as it could be.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • I wonder if maybe it's a governor problem. Laptops are often super power limited, sometimes even more so thermally limited, so they rely on increasingly bonkers power profiles to try to balance it, but pegging the laptop at 100% utilization such as while transcoding can still cause it to fall over. Have you played with adjusting the power profile at all?

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  • My other thought is screen tearing and similar. I think Mint still ships with X rather than Wayland and screen tearing is a pretty infamous limitation with Xserver

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • Vorta only supports SSH and local backup repositories while pika allows SFTP through some kind of compatibility layer with gvfs.

    That's kinda wild given SFTP is just SSH.

    If you're flinging files across the network, rsync is usually a really good option. It'll typically be run over SSH/SFTP and is capable of resuming if interrupted, verifying the copied files match the original, etc. and rsync can be super fast compared straight SFTP in some cases. In a pinch you can always cobble together a pretty robust backup script purely based off rsync

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • To be fair, I had more trouble with wake from sleep on Windows than I have had since shifting to Linux.

    Also at work I get 1-2 tickets a week for what end up being wake from sleep issues on Windows

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • Most popular games still don’t work.

    I've been running Bazzite on my main PC since October (I have a bad habit of tinkering with my Linux installs to death so I opted for immutable so I'm less likely to break it) and of all of the weird and obscure windows software I've installed, all has worked flawlessly including funky model railroad track planning software and some somewhat obscure simulator games. I also have some games from the 90s that haven't worked on modern Windows in years run flawlessly. Heck even Sims via EA's launcher runs flawlessly (if not better because I can minimize it from fullscreen, something it can't do on Windows since the DX11 update)

    Literally the only thing I've found that I can't run is anything requiring Ubisoft's launcher. The furthest I got is to about 30% through downloading Anno 1800 before it crashed and refused to run the launcher again. I can't help but suspect they intentionally broke compatibility because that would be very on-brand for them, but you never know. Kinda sad because I wanted to play an Anno game that's new enough to not have gotten a disc release but whatever I have plenty of other games I can play

  • Conspiracy theorist antivaxxer struggling with comprehension

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  • I did not mention the value of vaccination

    That's literally the whole point of trials for vaccines, to determine if they work and what the side effects there are if any. Public health officials then use that data to determine if, how and when to distribute the vaccines based on of those risks of the vaccine outweigh the public health risks of the continued diseas spread

    In a global pandemic when millions of people are dying, a 1/10000 risk of reduced quality of life that helps 10/10000 people not die of the pandemic disease and another 100/10000 not experience reduced quality of life from the pandemic disease is pretty easy numbers to say "yes roll it out" because the benefits far outweigh the risks

  • Me either

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  • My local video rental store (family video) hung on by a thread until the pandemic and finally went out of business. The property now holds an adult video store

  • What a joke, can't believe people still voluntarily use this OS

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  • On this subject, the freaking Windows Mail to Outlook (new) transition that Microsoft foisted upon users sent me deep into the "troubleshooting windows store problems" rabbit hole way too many times. Usually because something broke horrendously with the email account authentication and it would be stuck in an authentication loop without prompting for credentials

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  • Don't forget "purged from the voter roles" "registration inexplicably changed/deleted" and other fun beurocratic nonsense also used to surpress votes

  • US political divisions according to a Japanese newspaper

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  • Hell I have a basketball hoop in my driveway that came with my house! Have I ever used it? Nope! Not my thing, but if I had someone over who wanted to play basketball or my kids decided they really wanted to play it, I've already got a full size hoop just gotta pop over to the store and get a basketball

  • US political divisions according to a Japanese newspaper

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  • To be fair around 15 years ago that Windows vs Mac division would've been fairly accurate. Hip young people use Mac while fiscally-focused business people run Windows

  • Teaching seems like a frustrating job

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  • Strikes me almost like someone on the spectrum trying to solution when the other just wants acknowledgement and an apology. But being hangry is absolutely a thing, especially with kids so it is possible the "calming banana" might work

  • Teaching seems like a frustrating job

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  • I was spanked as a kid. I don’t think it did any good. I don’t want to spank my kids.

    As a parent of two very different and spectrum-y kids, it is incredible just how effective gentle parenting is. You have to be mindful of your kids' needs, make sure they aren't tired or hangry or just in an environment/situation that lends itself to poor decisions (and if they are, guide them towards resolving that) and dole out timeouts and losing privileges as appropriate for the individual child and situation. The other thing to remember is kids will test limits all the time, so you need to be ready to make those limits clear and make it clear when they try something new which is not okay. Mostly it comes down to consistent expectations and being clear and consistent with your and communication and punishments

  • ai generated logo

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  • This is always the part that blows my mind, they can't just crack open an image editor to move the project over the finishline? Seriously if you're already 90% of the way there with an AI generated image, just pop open GIMP or paint.net or whatever and make those couple of tweaks. Or, y'know hire an artist and say "here I like this logo I generated with AI, can you do something like this but better?"

  • Meanwhile in Canada

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  • I'm pretty sure the person you responded to was shitposting about the snow being a spoiler, including implying they'd be going by at 120 while other vehicles struggle on the ice

  • Meanwhile in Canada

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  • The snow can blow off and affect visibility or even throw projectiles for multiple truck lengths. Plus it won't just stay in one lane. If an uncleared vehicle passes you in another lane you're still on danger.

    So drop the "everybody is a terrible driver except for me" arguments