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[–] wischi@programming.dev 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (30 children)

I probably hate Microsoft roughly as much as most people here but in a lot of ways Windows is way more polished than Linux. The second you try something "unconventional" in Linux the shit is going to hit the fan. Fractional scale DPI - half the apps crap their pants. On screen keyboard - and don't get me started with OSK over Firefox in kiosk mode (for example in touch screen settings). Also try to make a custom shortcut on your gnome desktop to run some application with some arguments without writing config files in random directories you have to Google and reloading some configs via a terminal.

Microsoft really went downhill fast and certainly adds a lot of crap to windows lately, but sadly in the Linux world we don't have 1-3 well polished distros, we have hundreds of them. All good at one or two things, but suck at everything else. There a so many options the choice alone is probably the biggest reason everyday people will not switch to Linux if their device doesn't already come with Linux. Even people thinking about switching end up with analysis paralysis because everybody tells them stuff like, try it - if you don't like it try something else. As if they have nothing better to do than trying Linux distros all day long.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 months ago (7 children)

You say Linux, but I think you're talking about Gnome specifically. I'd recommend trying KDE and seeing how it handles your problems. You can install multiple DEs and see what works best for you.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gnome works completely fine. It's probably the most bug-free DE I've ever used. And yes I use fractional scaling.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Try using the on screen keyboard with Firefox. On so many extensions the keyboard just doesn't work (concrete example: tampermonkey code editor). And it's not like it doesn't work at all - you can insert new characters but backspace and new line is broken.

Now try OSK on Windows - never had a single issue that it doesn't work where a real keyboard would have worked.

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