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    Windows doesn't "just work"

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  • Historically, yeah. Nowadays (as in the last 2-3 years) I don't really see many issues. It's fairly solid in my experience.

    And let's be honest, Windows is a nightmare as well on many laptops. If you wipe them and start from scratch, there is a non zero chance that you'll have to source like half the drivers manually.

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  • Nah just stuff I built myself or random laptops.

    • Some old Lenovo laptop with an Intel iGPU and an AMD GPU I can't remember, worked out of the box but was a bit finicky for some things. I don't remember what it was, it broke years ago.
    • ASUS TUF FX504GM (1060 maxq), zero issues on X11
    • Lenovo Legion 5 (3070 + AMD iGPU), zero issues, daily driver
    • Custom Desktop (1070 + Intel iGPU though I didn't really use it), some issues but i was testing Wayland years ago. Good on X11.
    • Custom Desktop (7900xtx + 3080), zero issues, daily driver. It used to just have a 3080, which is fairly solid on Wayland as well but not perfect.
    • A few other random laptops and desktop some friends owned over the years, fairly smooth on pretty much all of them.

    I've found in general that anything that doesn't have an Nvidia card as the display output works fine. Wayland is getting quite usable on Nvidia as well, but there are still growing pains. Still, no black screens anywhere.

    Sure I've tinkered a bit during the years, but I almost never had a black screen, much less stuff not booting, on install. I did brick my display drivers a few times (just Nvidia being a pain, mostly) but it was mostly my fault.

    It may be that you've just been really unlucky. There are definitely hardware combinations out there that cause problems, but I haven't really found any particularly problematic ones up until now.

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  • I just don't see it. I run it on all my PCs with nvidia, amd, hybrid graphics, pretty much any combination (I have too many 😅). It works. Even various friends of mine have tried it on their older setups, no problems there either.

    Unless you're using something like Debian or whatever with crazy old packages, everything works for the most part. Nvidia is still not great on Wayland but it at least works now.

    I'm not saying your experience isn't valid, I'm not trying to gaslight you, but I'm not sure it's representative of the average experience nowadays.

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  • Laptops have historically been a little iffy yeah. Personally I haven't had many issues except for Nvidia optimus, but since most of them are non standard and proprietary it used to be kind of a pain. Now though it's much better, at least on newer hardware, even my newest laptop with hybrid graphics just worked out of the box.

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  • I almost never had Linux not boot after a fresh install, even with nVidia hardware. It happened a few times like 10 years ago and never again. What hardware are you running?

  • Trump Decried Millions Spent ‘Making Mice Transgender.’ It Was Cancer and Asthma Research

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  • Trump Decried Millions Spent ‘Making Mice Transgender.’ It Was Cancer and Asthma Research

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  • Fuck nazi scum!

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  • What is the point in censoring "Fucking" if it can be read just as easily? Why even censor it at all? Also I don't get it, depicting a Molotov cocktail and inciting violence is fine but the word "fucking" is too naughty not to censor? Pick a side.

  • Trains_irl (Art by Trashcamell)

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  • There was a different kind of railing in that room.

  • Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox?

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  • Yeah they've been doing that for a while

  • 'You are making it hard for us!' Black Americans for Trump member rips president on CNN - Raw Story

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  • Billionaire fascists have no friends, they have accomplices and pawns. Both are disposable once they served their purpose, much like the values and principles said billionaires pretend to stand for.The only thing they value is themselves and their innate disdain for everybody else.

  • 'You are making it hard for us!' Black Americans for Trump member rips president on CNN - Raw Story

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  • Yeah I meant the modern republican party. It's kind of ironic that the party that freed the slaves is also the one that wants them back.

  • 'You are making it hard for us!' Black Americans for Trump member rips president on CNN - Raw Story

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  • What a surprising turn of events! Who could've possibly predicted this? Are you telling me that the party founded on hate for anyone who isn't a rich white guy is making things harder for whoever isn't a rich white guy? Preposterous!

  • Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

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  • Your comment shows you fundamentally do not understand how societal expectations and rejection affect people psychologically. If half the world was constantly trying to make your life hell, I bet your mental health wouldn't be the best either.

    It is far too common to point at depression or anxiety as the problem instead of a symptom of the actual problem.But making that distinction would require critical thinking, a skill that, for someone calling other people "brainwashed idiots", seems to be sorely lacking...

  • Completed NTSYNC Driver Merged For Linux 6.14: "Should Make Many SteamOS Users Happy"

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  • I see. Either way there are some substantial improvements over fsync in some cases, so it should benefit Proton as well.

  • Completed NTSYNC Driver Merged For Linux 6.14: "Should Make Many SteamOS Users Happy"

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  • I don't think Proton has anything special going on in that regard actually. It's got DXVK and all the other stuff built-in, but for the synchronization primitives I think it just uses fsync just like Wine does, so this might be interesting...

  • Linux is fucking awesome

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  • American culture is one of the few I've found to be actively "anti-knowledge". It's not just their educational system being bad, it's a genuine cultural tendency of not just dismissing experts, but straight out refusing to learn and snobbing those who do.

  • Linux is fucking awesome

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  • Every time I see someone write "sorry for my bad english" their writing is several times better than many of the native speakers I interact with on a daily basis.

  • In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful...

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  • I have no way of verifying this is real, but I wholeheartedly believe it.