The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400]

The hilarious thing about this bad troll argument is that I've spent less time fiddling with my OS since switching to Gentoo than ever; spent less time fiddling with Arch and Debian than I did the Windows machines they replaced. The thing about Linux is that the random breakage and weirdness and feature churn of Windows just doesn't exist here once you get good.

If you fuck something up on linux at least you'll find some sort of wiki or guide that will get you back on track.
When windows decides to fuck itself up for no reason, all you get is "hello, i am windows mvp, you're computer is unhealthy, run sfc /scannow and DISM /RestoreHealth, thanks you please rate 5/5"

If linux fucks itself up on its own, there's usually a big stink online and a guide around it already posted before you even notice

 

[Vesperus]

When windows decides to fuck itself up for no reason, all you get is "hello, i am windows mvp, you're computer is unhealthy, run sfc /scannow and DISM /RestoreHealth, thanks you please rate 5/5"

You forgot "have you tried re-installing windows?" Which is MVP for "I don't know, this wasn't covered in my course."

 

[Billy Herrington "Aniki"]

I suppose so, yes. I'd personally recommend a Xorg-forward spin like Cinnamon, MATE+Compiz

have you tried mate, i saw that they aren't really doing much on their project, also i need wayland bc my mouse doesn't work on xorg. It keeps lagging as if the latency of it its 500ms and it'll jitter, only happens on xorg. Any ideas?

 

[Betonhaus]

If you fuck something up on linux at least you'll find some sort of wiki or guide that will get you back on track.
When windows decides to fuck itself up for no reason, all you get is "hello, i am windows mvp, you're computer is unhealthy, run sfc /scannow and DISM /RestoreHealth, thanks you please rate 5/5"

If linux fucks itself up on its own, there's usually a big stink online and a guide around it already posted before you even notice

Don’t forget how the Microsoft Answers website is so completely useless. You’d ask a question and then some official answer would come in with a super generic and unhelpful response and then mark your question solved and then never respond to that question ever again.

 

[Akerman]

Apparently you need to manually enable Bluez to fast connect to devices:

# Permanently enables the Fast Connectable setting for adapters that
# support it. When enabled other devices can connect faster to us,
# however the tradeoff is increased power consumptions. This feature
# will fully work only on kernel version 4.1 and newer. Defaults to
# 'false'.
FastConnectable = true

I didn't know that before snoopin about Bluez's settings.
Check on your own systems with:

cat /etc/bluetooth/main.conf | grep -i fast

Now my Bluetooth hardware dont take ages after startup to connect.

 

[GNU Abyss]

So does anyone know why after weeks of trying I can't get Plex to see the hard drives on my computer under Linux and every time I try to install a game it says I don't have a hard drive?

I found my old Windows 10 disc and I am going to switch back to that if I can't find an answer because I don't think Linux is a usable OS.

I have been trying for the better part of a month and I can;t get anything other than web browsing to work.

Nothing works on Linux as far as I can tell and I am using the linux version of apps.

Thanks for trying to help but Linux just doesn't work and it is never going to be an OS that can be used by anyone who needs to get work done on their computer.

Are you dual booting by any chance? Windows doesn't fully unmount NTFS drives because of fastboot, unless you explicitly tell it to do so.