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My favorite is when someone tells me that they are too old to learn about new technology, or that they can't use a device because they aren't very tech-y. No, you just refuse to learn.

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[–] Ryoae@piefed.social 5 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

It works out of the box - if you do nothing at all to it and just browse.

But to do anything like getting all of your favorite programs, that's going to take effort.

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 1 points 58 minutes ago

Though the Application “Store fronts” have come a long way in helping the newbies get rolling.

With older hardware sure. I largely have a flawless experience with anything 10 years old or older. And as long as it’s simple anything 5 years old works perfectly too.

But somehow my 5 year old network card is basically unusable on Linux unless I disable 6ghz WiFi.

[–] Retail4068@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not even. I need custom scripts for audio, can't turn my display off and on I need to pull the HDMI cable, and Bluetooth is basically unusable.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Bluetooth Linux sucks ass. No one can solve my Bluetooth issue and I'm using a good tp link dongle and updated kernel and keep getting skipping randomly over Bluetooth. So bad.