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@Root 18.04 was fine. I don't know if upgrading made it shit or what.
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@Hazarth yeah, I installed KDE and haven't tested. Our "standard" at work is Gnome. I really want to just get a new laptop and start with a clean slate.
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There's no superior choice. On Windows I'd get annoyances like random BSOD for connecting a peripheral through USB, or stupidly high disk/memory/CPU usage when idling, or sticky keys up the ass when playing a game, may whomever made that annoying popup and beep suffer hyperconstipating anal bleeding for all eternity.
Linux the kernel, itself, is perfect for stuff like what I need: GNU coreutils, gcc, perl, a plain tty, and nano for editing as a higher form of disrespect. If that's all then it's great.
But when you have to deal with graphic and sound cards it really does break down into incomprehensible fuckery. Virtually all hardware being proprietary means that open or ~ L I B R E ~ drivers and libraries are essentially guaranteed to fuck you in the ass -- unintentionally of course, but sodomized nonetheless.
This problem will likely outlive us all, until the army of Ben Eater acolytes start building GPUs for real; only on that day will we realize the Stallmanist utopia. -
@Liebranca I have gained new appreciation of the "fuck you" Linus sent to NVidia.
Another dev on my team just got a new machine. Before he came in today I made two separate USB installers and ...
I installed VSCode in Linux. I keep finding thing about Linux that make me think its kinda shit. Maybe its just Gnome, but I don't know.
So I startup VSCode. Blank screen. I do a search and find its gpu shit. I start it up with argument to disable gpu accel. Then I go into settings and turn of gpu accel. It now works. Cool that it has these options.
What made me install VSCode. I installed VSCode because I wanted a decent json editor. I search for Linux json editors and I am bombarded by online editors being pushed by Linux websites. Who the fuck in their right mind is going to use a fucking website editor for json data?
I "had" a decent json editor by running notepad++ under wine. But since I turned on GPU in Linux Wine shit just doesn't work correctly anymore. Which is the whole reason I went looking for an editor.
How can a platform like Linux take itself seriously when turning on GPU accelerated drivers breaks every fucking thing in the OS?
Why did I enable GPU accel drivers in Linux? Because updating to 22.04 caused all my java apps to draw incorrectly. Enabling GPU fixes this shit. So I enable GPU to fix one thing and then it breaks a bunch of other shit.
This shit right here is why I have trust issues with Linux.
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