• Freeman@lemmy.pub
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    Linux - “I can’t hotplug”

    Or

    Linux - “I can’t do fractional scaling”

    Or

    Linux - “ so you want secure boot, a graphics card and full disk encryption, well here’s a wiki based on the last version that might work, fuck tpm while we are at it”

    They all have their niche and strengths/weakensses

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      Fractional scalling works fine for me. Am I doing something wrong? How do I break it?

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        It’s a global setting, not per monitor or per setup and also quite gimped. Also on Wayland, on my couple of setups. It’s sucks ass.

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      Linux - I hope you don’t need to print anything because CUPS works intermittently at best.

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        Yeah that depends on the printer to be sure. But the common denominator there is printers fucking suck. Trying printing across AD domains or having usable point and print in windows without just saying fuck it and removing the print nightmare mitigation via regkey.

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          But that is because they are printers, and printers are gremlins that make sure to keep you off your work whenever they can.

          Seriously, it is because printers need to convert analog to digital to analog, which is crazy difficult to get right.

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            It’s a little known fact, that Linux only got to where it is, fueled by the rage against printers that gave birth to the GPL.

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        Weird, I have literally never had any issues with CUPS, in environments where Windows completely failed due to the drivers being for an older version or unsigned or such

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          Yeah I ran cups from when the distros first started pushing for it hard and it always just worked at the office.

          Recently at home my wife’s been complaining about air print not working well, so I decided to throw CUPS into a docker and have her use that as the interface. I don’t know if it’s my Wi-Fi network my printer or what but I’ve been fighting it for a solid week it’ll work for a print or two maybe three and then nothing. Nope sorry that printer’s not reachable anymore. Meanwhile all the windows boxes print to it just fine.

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        My personal favorite

        Linux -“ batteries are made to be drained fast”

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            Haha. I have. It’s awesome. But systemd boot is a victim of lack of secure boot.

            On the one hand. The lack of grub fucking with the windows boot sector is awesome. But the lack of secure boot is kinda annoying. Especially if you dual boot.

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          My laptop on battery lasts about 6 to 7 hours on Linux. It’s about an hour shorter than Windows but nowhere near “drained fast” territory.

          Now… if I use X11 that’s a whole other story! Somehow the battery life is cut in half because of higher GPU usage, and I still can’t figure out what causes it.

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        Wow there! This user shared personal experiences with GNU/Linux that you refer to as facts and logic to propogate even more circlejerk!