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Microsoft wants you to call it a folder and it looks like a fucking folder. "Directory" is the word for when you're on the CMD or terminal. No point getting all mad and autistic about it bruv.
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There are people who don't even use either of those terms and just use the term "labels" for file organization
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The proper term is directory. I know this because cd is short for change directory, and ls stands for directory listing. Besides I'm pretty sure Xerox originated the "folder" imagery, and even if they didn't Apple were using it before Microsoft.
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Meanwhile, I'm still over here trying to remember that it's not "drawers" in a "workbench"...
So that everyone knows, if you use Nvidia and Qt 6 then expect stutters on resizing windows. Or when moving windows around when taskbar is set to adaptive, or if gay new feature called "floating taskbar" is enabled in Plasma 6.
What's a fix you ask? Well, Plasma 6 will simply warn users about unsupported configuration. Sorry, you are on your own, beg Nvidia for a workaround in drivers.
AMD GPU drivers are not affected.
Fucking pajeetware.
What's a fix you ask? Well, Plasma 6 will simply warn users about unsupported configuration. Sorry, you are on your own, beg Nvidia for a workaround in drivers.
AMD GPU drivers are not affected.
Fucking pajeetware.
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Not as far as I'm aware. Allegedly Qt6 does some retarded things like spamming repaints when resizing windows.
It seems like doing anything that spawns transparency can make windows stutter.
It seems like doing anything that spawns transparency can make windows stutter.
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The bug also seems to be present with the pager enabled but still... Telling people that their configuration is unsupported instead of providing an actual fix is pretty retarded.
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Folder and directory are pretty much synonyms to be honest, no need to get mad at a simple word. To expand on this, it's easier for people to say "folder" because they can visualize it especially when they use a desktop environment. In the end, these two words are pretty much interchangable.
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The UX, the way the OS handles generally speaking.
As demonstrated extremely well both here and over to the newbie linux thread. Linux is anything, but user-friendly.
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If you hate customization, what about a macbook bro, or a prebuilt PC, self-built PC's are autism and cringe. No Normal Person Would Build Their Own PC.
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UX is a corpodrone term, mostly used by UX Engineers to fluff themselves. An interface feels useful and familiar to you if the overall package of it mirrors something else you're already familiar with. If you sat down a person with zero life experience using any technology in front of the three major OSes, there would be confusion in any case. Personally, I haven't encountered any problems following written down instructions for basic troubleshooting on either Windows or Linux.
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I thought at least some of the stutters were due to things like storage. Specifically because they are using storage not ram, and if you dont have something fast like an nvme ssd you will see stutters with some effects.
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The user experience is why i have at least for now settled on fedora on one computer and pop!_os on the other. Once i decide which i like more of those ill probably change both the be the same os.
But at least with distros like pop!, fedora, manjaro, and mint for a more windows like feel. You get as good or imo better experience. At least with the first two i listed.
I particularly like the navigation on those two.
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UX stands for user experience, you're speaking of UI (user interface) which is fine and that's a rare compliment I can even give linux.
Also this thread has clearly shown that linux is hard to use even for people who are interested in it and probably had past experiences with PC systems like Windows. I literally no kidding a few pages ago quoted someone who literally couldn't install slackware and I think it's because they made it way too complicated. Linux is a whole bunch of shit like this.
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I agree, in principle, but "folder" is fewer syllables. "Dir", pronounced "durr", is one fewer, though. Some folks don't catch "dir". So "folder" is a little safer here.
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No, I meant UX. As in, the familiarity of your interactions with the UI. Installing Slackware is very much a self-imposed challenge if you don't know your way around Linux. It's a distro from a time when its average user was already aware of Unix. The real issue with troubleshooting Linux problems on easier, mainstream distros is the tiptoeing around popping the hood open so to speak. People dance around in circles giving you random commands when they should be explaining, in simple terms, what the system is trying to do and where exactly it might be encountering problems in the user's case. There's nothing worse when reading a common issue than seeing "just run
niggerfaggot -fUCk --you, RTFM".It's sometimes lackluster and you might need to read up on things occasionally, but this is a trade-off. The more polished and coherent a system is, the more each component depends on the rest. Should one become kinda shit, removing it is hard. If it's more of a free-for-all, you'll encounter more issues and will be expected to have a basic idea of how it all comes together. Linux isn't a panacea and people that shill it for everybody and everything are retarded herd cattle.
The UX train is a self-perpetuating circle of fart huffers that assume people just know things because, in their minds, it's supposed to be common knowledge. Apparently designing things with iconography in mind, where even a small child or a non-Westernized person could understand it, is not "slick" or "sexy". Most pronounced in current year webshit.
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Ignoring the bait I think there's actually a worthwhile conversation about users that can be derived from this, and I think in some ways it actually comes out in favor of linux. The reality is that there is an absolutely massive gap between your average tard user and your average enthusiast. There is a huge chunk of people who have absolutely 0 grasp on technology and needs about 5 buttons to get their work done. Enthusiasts who use platforms like linux want real control and prefer a config file. There is a huge amount of software, especially in the Microsoft Ecosystem, that tries to form a middle ground and its honestly very ugly. The Ribbon design you see in MS Office and alot of other business software serves neither group. The tech illiterate user misclicks, fucks up their application, and has to waste some poor help desk kid's time to fix it for them. The Power user gets irritated with having to navigate some shitty menu without a search option, and would prefer if they could just edit a config file or a json file to get what they actually want. I think that most consumer apps would be alot better if they hid the more complex functionality from the main interface and gave power users more control in the background.
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I'm really not sure what the concern is for Linux being hyper autistic. For anyone else, Windows and MacOS exists, you can just buy a laptop from Walmart and chances are, it will run Adobe Photoshop fine. I'm sure they're perfectly happy not knowing how the Linux kernel boots and looks for the root partition.
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This is why we invented initrd, so the kernel no longer needed to care where the root partition was or what drivers it needed.
Oh, right.