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To all #OpenSource and #Linux warriors, to all saying "Ditch windows, install Linux", to everyone and every single person: please, spend several minutes and read this. I want you all to read this so you really understand the problem (if you want to understand, of course). And a huge, huge thanks to Aaron @fireborn for starting this post series. fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w… #Accessibility

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn

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Kirill

Не знал что в Ubuntu стало всё так плохо. Давно отказался от идеи использовать хоть какой Linux в качестве домашней системы из-за тех или иных заёбов, потому уже и не помню когда что последний раз ставил. Хоть есть вещи, за которые Винде хочется дать по жопе, или из-за того что там не работает например Airflow без WSL и прочих танцев, но это всё можно стерпеть и пережить.
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Kirill

В статье увидел знакомое слово PulseAudio. Помню это говнище, как ещё в 2010 году выпиливал его из системы, потому что ничего другого не оставалось. С ним у многих тогда проблемы были, судя по различным тогдашним форумам.
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Jhooper

honestly, trying to work with Linux ends up feeling like Death by a thousand cuts. I end up running into driver issues, configuration issues, unexplained slowdown with internet speed, update problems and game performance issues every time I use Linux on one of my devices. Individually, they're usually not a big deal, but altogether they stop me from using Linux as anything more than a curiosity, or a rare data recovery machine.
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Snark Week Global

After using only Debian for a couple years I can only say that this is also how it feels for me on bad days, but there are good days too. It's like any relationship I guess.

I have minorly restricted vision and I've been in many smaller, but grim fights with things like 150% UI zoom (also here!).

I enjoy reading your stories from deeper within the stack, or the "frontline" so to say and am looking forward to the upcoming articles.

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0xEvilHeart

Yeah... Even as someone with perfectly good vision and excessive technical skills I can't stand Linux unless it is om hardware a specific distro fully likes without issue or inside a VM, and even then it is a nuclear mess. Windows has a lot of issues but it is literally easier to put an end to them than it is to worry if my OS is gonna crash when I have to pay a bill or just use my damn computer. I use purpose specific live distros like Tails, and sometimes install Linux on my burner laptop. I say this as someone who literally does the hardest thing you can do with a computer, binary reverse engineering. Imagine now for Joe Average who just wants to be able to use their damn computer and not even think about the techie stuff.
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0xEvilHeart

I also am kinda sick of a lot of those Linux "experts" looking at me like I am an idiot for actually liking Windows. Under the broken userspace and bloatware of consumer versions lies an amazing Windows NT core that I cannot just get rid of after falling in love with it since childhood, and I genuinely enjoy Windows when it is rid of the consuner-version enshittification, bloat and bugs. LTSC versions of Windows, which you have to (in safe ways ofc) pirate if you are not a company, are fucking amazing and will literally never crash unless you or a program profusely ultra mega super fucks up or some of your hardware is literally on death's door and needs repair/replacement. Also LTSC versions (at least the 2021 version I use) do not rampantly re-enable the most concerning spy features on Windows after an update but rather just a few minor less worrisome things that are nice to have off which I can just kill after every update with WPD anyway. I am a hardcore power user and reverse engineer who likes what Windows is on the inside, the Linux crowd can cry into oblivion until their product matches the desktop experience of Windows and has flawless interoperability.
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Matt Campbell

On the other hand, if one of those Linux warriors wants to _help_ a blind person get up and running on Linux and work through the difficulties, that's great. I used to participate on the Emacspeak mailing list in 2001, and there was a guy there who was new to Linux and Emacspeak, but one or two people from his local Linux users' group had helped him as much as they knew how. He still needed help from us on the list, but the fact that the LUG helped him stuck with me.
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