Linux is unusable as a desktop OS

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>>56172947
>twin-panel file managers suck
DOLPHIN MASTER RACE, YOU TURBO PLEB

>>56172947
>screen is tearing no matter what I do
use compton for the screen tearing
>VLC is absolute garbage that can't play anything properly
vlc works fine for me, be sure to have every codec you might need installed


also, dont accuse an OS for your incompetence

>>56172947
>all twin-panel file managers suck, quite literally trash
yea, explorer is so mu-- oh hang on
>video and audio players are subpar compared to Win programs
mpv is an excellent video player, don't play music much myself so i use mpv for that, too
>screen is tearing no matter what I do
worksforme
>VLC is absolute garbage that can't play anything properly
how is this related?
>somebody, ANYBODY at Linux
>at linux
oh boy
>obscure, unintuitive interfaces.
aka, "interfaces that are different and that i'm not used to". a long time linux user could say the same thing about windows (bash scripting? sure, powershell? uhh...)
>For the love of god, could autistic programmers stop designing GUI and let actual graphical designers do that job? That'd be great.
yea, i also hate when the people who make something make that thing. if you thing you can do better, by all means do so and submit a pull request to have it implemented, until then, quit telling people who do this FOR FREE what they should and shouldn't do

>>56172947
Ubuntu or Debian
Use mpv for videos, ncmpcpp + mpd for music (takes a while to setup, you'll need to follow a guide)
What distro did you use? Some of the lightweight ones require you to install a package like compton to fix screen tearing

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>>56172947
We get it you vape.

>>56172993
>worksforme

And there you have it. Desktop distros are written by fedora clad neckbeards who couldn't give a shit less if their code works on anyone else's hardware.

>Use linux or you're a faggot
>installed it, but it's broken
>worksforme, sucks to be you pleb
>fuck this, back to windows

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>>56173026
>>>/b/

>>56173026
>yougetwhatyoupayfor.jpg
>get windows 10 cancer for free
kek nice one retard

>>56173026
>doesn'tworkforme: valid argument
>worksforme: invalid argument
nice standards

>>56173026
> use linux
> installed it
wow OP, you installed the linuxes?

Jokes aside, what distro are you running?

>Local winbabby discovers Linux for the first time

>>56173064
I installed Mint, Cinnamon

>>56173064
If he's a cuck he likely installed Mint. If he had balls and a sense of worth he would install Manjaro.

>>56173026
While FOSS programs generally do have shit interfaces, you're just a retard, and your complaints are retarded.

>>56172947
1/10

At least you tried.

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>>56172947
Linux on Desktop user here. Works great for me and I don't want to go back to Windows. But you're right with VLC. I couldn't even watch a video with the default settings and changed so that I can watch, but the videos look like shit. Pic related are the settings that work for me.

It can't be a hardware problem, never had such problems under Windows, googleing didn't help.

Has anyone an idea?

>>56173026
This isn't the OP BTW

>>56173046
Windows is developed by paid professionals. They make sure their code just simply works on a wide variety of hardware. (as long as it's x86/64) When I install windows, it just works, and works with all my hardware. I don't have to fiddle fuck with it for days before I get a usable setup working. And when something doesn't work, They actually try to fix it, as opposed to me googling my problem and finding a dozen forum posts asking the same question, but never got any replies. That's the linux community for you. Sure, win10 isn't exactly my cup of tea, but ME sucked, Vista sucked. They made up for it later.

>>56172966
>dont accuse an OS for your incompetence

See what I mean? Nice community.

>>56173054
Those aren't the same. Saying something is broken, only to be told "worksforme" is just ridiculous.

>>56173064
Again, not OP. But I've been playing with linux off and on since the late 90's. You name it, I've probably downloaded it at one point or another.

>>56173155
Saying that my arguments are retarded is not an argument. You can't actually refute the fact that desktop linux distros are written and "maintained" by reddit atheists, and the overall community is shit. Linux nerds actually get their grandmothers running ubuntu and start dumping her calls to voicemail when she has problems.

Stop forking LINUX! I want to love it so bad, but it sucks so much. Yall mother fuckers need to drop all the forks and consolidate into one perfect master distro, THEN branch off.


I fucking hate apple, but I would recommend OSX over linux for someone who hates windows.

>>56173204
>Yall mother fuckers need to drop all the forks
This. so much.

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>he fell for linux meme

>>56173204
>Those aren't the same. Saying something is broken, only to be told "worksforme" is just ridiculous.
if it worksforme, then the thing isn't broken outright, just that you're having trouble with it
linux isn't perfect, nothing is

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>>56173348
It's about effort. It's about code running well not only on your machine, but running well on as many machines as possible. When some neckbeard releases some code, calls it official to the distro, does not test it, then forgets the code exists, and then when someone has a problem, they are told either "worksforme" or is ignored, that's a serious fucking problem.

If it wasn't for servers, linux would be dead because of it's shitty "community".

Are you with me? Should I break out the crayons?

>>56173432
i understand what you're saying
so did you file a bug report? no? then how are they supposed to fix your problem, when they don't know about it?
perhaps they have fixed the problem, and your particular configuration isn't ideal for your particular hardware (there's a lot of configuration+hardware combinations!)

and it's not like windows is free of problems, even despite the much better situation it has (manufacturers make windows drivers for their hardware far more often then they do linux drivers)

>>56172947
>installed Linux
No you didn't.
>all twin-panel file managers suck, quite literally trash
Linux is a kernel, not a file manager..
>video and audio players are subpar compared to Win programs
Not part of Linux.
>VLC is absolute garbage that can't play anything properly
Also not Linux.

Go away normalfag.

>"chocolate is inedible"
>source: i tried a type of chocolate once and i didn't like it, also the wrapper was a little bit crinkled

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>>56173511
>>56173511
>so did you file a bug report?

We aren't talking about a single problem. We are talking about multiple unsolvable problems per install since the late 90's. We are talking about people who REFUSE to support their code, we are talking about communities that say "worksforme, fuck off" or ignores people altogether.

Look, if you guys wanna have a DIY OS, and tinker with it and circle jerk each other to high heaven, I get that. I understand it. But when people misrepresent linux to get more people away from windows, that just burns my cookies. It's been going on for years and I'm sick of it. Some people want to actually use their computers and take the OS for granted, and that's fine too. Just keep your nose at the same altitude as everyone else.


>>56173540
>"chocolate is inedible"
>source: This chocolate tastes like some fat autist rubbed his crotch on it, there's even pubes in it! Wait, what is this?? ..... OMFG there are chicken tendies in my chocolate!!!

>guys?
>anyone there?
>guys, I need help with my chocolate!
>guys?
>GUYS!

>>56172957
No sorry it is Konqueror.

>>56173613
>when people misrepresent linux to get more people away from windows, that just burns my cookies
not everyone does that, and have you never tried something new, liked it, and pointed out to someone else how cool this thing you've tried is?
while i don't so much anymore unless someone asks, when i first tried linux i admit i talked to people about it, it was exciting and different

>>guys?
>"then don't eat it"

>>56172947
>bait, the post

>>56172947
>t. Babby Duck

>Install Windows 10
>You have to fix every fucking thing
>No apt-get/software center
>Everything is a malware
Even Vista is more stable than this shit.
>Let actual graphical designers do that job?
Elementary OS, faggot.

>>56173811
>>You have to fix every fucking thing
>>Everything is a malware

This is what fedora wearers actually believe.

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>all twin-panel file managers suck, quite literally trash
Not using double commander.

There is a reason why lonix have 2% marketshare

>>56173851
>romani shib

Dikk, a cigányok már linuxot használnak?

Amúgy jól néz ki az a double commander tényleg

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>GNU/Linux
I wonder when that fat kike Stallman will stop paying all these curry-niggers to shill for his stinky crap here.

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>2016
>not using redstar os

>>56173895
you never going to get erdely back trianon dog

>>56173958
What the hell is that?!

>>56174025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

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>>56173204
>When I install windows, it just works, and works with all my hardware.

Just as a side note, I come across instances where driver issues just stop certain hardware from working:
>scanner just randomly stopped working correctly, would work sometimes, make weird noises most of the time
>probably a driver issue after update, no fix for months
>my family asks me to try scanning some documents with my laptop
>downloaded software to scan from the repository, plugged the thing in clicked scan
>everything fucking worked without a hitch

Another time my sister struggled to get the graphic tablet driver installed, tried it with my laptop, plug&play without problem, pressure sensing in inkscape worked beautifully.

So as far as I am concerned, windows is NOT the "works perfect with every hardware" solution people think it is.

>>56174065
>worksforme, fuck you

>install windows 10
>see no improvement over Windows 7, or even 8.1
>tons of useless bloat comes with it
>don't even have control over the OS
>feels like you're using a company PC instead of an actual "P"C
>have to install a driver for every single thing
>sometimes doesn't even detect stuff
>everything breaks over time
>you have to spend hours de-botting it unless you use some Chinese software for it
>can't even use it for business because it has builtin keyloggers and sends all your data to Microsoft
>full of vulnerabilities
>the only possible way to use it is to never give it Internet access

Meanwhile,
>install lincucks
>everything works

>>56174158
>bait

>>56174158
>comparing windows 10 to Linux

That's like comparing the bubonic plague to the flu

>>56173432
I don't even know which distro would let untested code in their official repos. Can you specify what kind of shit distro you used and experienced those problems with?

Also, Linux supports way more hardware than Windows. The one thing where Windows has still the edge is driver support by hardware developers for extension cards. (But those are not essentially to run the OS and are not supported by the Windows OS itself either)

>>56174065
those people are probably most the type who've only used OEM machines, where windows has already been preconfigured to work well with that particular set of hardware

>>56174188
>saying something is bait to hide the fact it's true

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>>56172947

Nothing new, desu senpai.

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This is why Linux is nothing more than a meme.

>>56174419
>disabling camera
There's an easier way: update your wincuck 10, webcam will get broken :^)

>>56174444
So just turn the computer on and go away for a while?

>install windows
>reboot
>reboot
>reboot
>update available
>reboot
>reboot
>update available
>reboot
>reboot
>install software
>reboot
>install driver
>reboot

>>56174419
Literally this. I don't know why you have to beat around the bush so much with Linux.

>ITT: Linux fanboys (fedora wearers) proving why muh open source OS is shit.

>>56174419
when i want to disable a device, i unplug it

>>56174590
See>>56174444

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>>56174606
>>56174444
Nice samefagging.

>>56174590
>Literally this. I don't know why you have to beat around the bush so much with Linux.

Because freetards have no concept of usability or user friendliness.
Actually all the Unix culture suffers from that, but since Unix has won the market/mindshare of programmers very few people know that a better world was possible.
Unix/Linux people are making computers more difficult than it needs to be because they are autistic manchildren.

>>56174632
>He has to disable updates so his webcams won't break
Kill yourself, low life cuck

u all forget one thing, install gentoo

>>56174753
>install roody-poo

WTF does this even mean?

>>56172947
>graphical designers
>designing GUI
That would be fun. Complete GUI based on abstract shapes, interlaced and distorted graphics, and some Swiss typography for good measure. 10/10 would never use.

>>56174696
>autistic manchildren.
Literally this, again. That's what it comes down to.

Oh you don't want screen tearing? Install a window compositor and configure it. HAHAHA.

Drivers are fucking shit enough as it is.

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>>56174782
>STEMlord salty he can't into arts

Look at him. Look at him and laugh.

>>56174811
>arts
lmao go back to >>>/lit/ low score retard

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>>56174782

>>56172957
Dolphin a best

>>56174419
post the one comparing difficulty to turn on privacy-settings.

>>56174906
>Windows
>privacy

>>56172947
>all twin-panel file managers suck, quite AGSFASDG trash
Compared to explorer's or Finder's lack of dual-panel?

>video and audio players are subpar compared to Win programs
Like what? What Windows movie player is better than mpv?

>screen is tearing no matter what I do
What distro did you install that didn't include a compositor?

>VLC is absolute garbage that can't play anything properly
What does this have to do with Linux.

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>>56174927
>What does this have to do with Linux.
Windumbs think VLC is a Linux project. Don't laugh, their IQ is historically low

>>56174949
Ah yes, good old VLC kernel module.

>>56174964
What are you implying?

>>56174981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

OP is true, linux is for people who wont use all the features or have spare time to learn it.

Still one of the most used distros, are still shit with programs breaking all the time (screentearing, composers restarting, etc)

>>56175024
What screen tearing? People use wayland for that, retard.

>>56174927
>What Windows movie player is better than mpv?
Literally anything. MPV illustrates perfectly why Linux is terrible.
>want to change subtitle font?
>need more saturation?
>want to know how this piece of shit player works?
>here's the manual literally over 170 pages long, feel free to study it in your free time

in windows
>download any movie player
>right click
>select subtitle menu, font
>open up the color adjustment screen with 1 click, able to change anything, everything is visible at glance
>literally no manual needed

>>56175341
Which is exactly what you can do in VLC

>>56175341
>here's the manual AGSFASDG over 170 pages long
Or you could google your normie-as-fuck questions that 20 people have had answered before you.

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>>56175453
>having to google in order to use a piece of shit video player

That right there is the problem.

>>56175571
There are frontends for mpv. Or you could use vlc.

>>56175571
It really isn't though.
You only need to look a shortcut you are going to be using once.
f toggles fullscreen
ctrl - and + toggle v/a sync by 100ms
left/right seek
up/down seek moooore
spacebar pause
j subtitles
# audio tracks

>>56175571
>having to google
Literally everyone does this, especially for Windows programs, or the OS itself. You can't expect to know everything about a piece of software simply by installing it.

Windows doesn't have copy on write FS.

>>56175070
DRI3. Retard

>>56175786
There's these things called GUIs with controls like input boxes, check boxes and buttons. They take advantage of these things called video cards, monitors and mouses to allow you to easily operate your computer without having to remember keys. You should try them out someday, ideally before you end up burned out of technology because of your insistence on using obsolete usage patterns.

>>56176168
Pressing f instead of using a trackpad to click a square on the top right of a window doesn't burn you out.

Pretending keyboard shortcuts are an inconvenience just makes you look retarded.

>>56176225
You can have GUI and still have keyboard shortcuts enabled you moron. What do you have against user friendliness?
Not enough 1337 üb3r h4xx0rs for you?

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>>56172947
EFFECTIVE EVANGELISM

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>>56172947

>>56172947
Over the past few years, I have used Ubuntu, Mageia, Debian, Fedora, Antergos, Manjaro, Arch, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, TinyCore and Puppy.

None of the distributions have given me any problems that there weren't easy solutions to in the user forums.

Do you have a problem with searching for keywords in google and reading the results?

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>>56172947
pcmanfm is not trash and supports twin panel view
mplayer beats any windows video player
screen tearing is easily fixed with couple enviromental variables, at least in nvidia case
vlc is garbage everywhere

you should consider searching for ways to fix issues instead of crying on 4chan japanese image board

>>56174918
thatsthejoke.mp3

>>56172947
>all twin panel file managers suck
use dolphin
>video and audio players are subpar
just use MPV you cuck it's a meme player but it werks and you can just get a frontend
>screen tearing
Blame AMD for your shit drivers
>VLC
>ever

>Ugly GUI
Well that's what happens when the devs over at GNOME are autistic and make changes nobody asks for.

I know you're baiting though because Windows looks like shit and is a pain in the ass to rice. W10 at least looks okay out of the box but the functionality is so shit that who cares?

sageeeee fuck you OP

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I'll agree that MPV although a superb player is much to complicated or involved in setting up. I've also thought at times that I wouldn't need to install things like the K-lite codec pack by now either on Windows. It's been what almost twenty years and I still need to add this? VLC of course negates most of that and it's why it's so good for most people on either OS.

>>56173983
We don't want it, Romanians can keep their fucking Mordor-ass POS place.

>>56173851
Csini.

>>56172947
PEBKAC

>>56172993
Somebody just got ethered.

>>56174530
Welcome to Windows.

>>56173147
>Manjaro
is it really that much better than MInt?

>>56179341
Not an argument neckbeard

>>56174997
Holy hell that article is autistic as hell, especially the images and captions.

>>56176532
>Not installing front end for mpv, so you can use your pointing device in peace

Linux works and looks fine for me. You must be a bad computer user.

>>56172947

Wouldn't it just be easier to admit that you're bad with technology instead of writing this mess of a post?

>>56174811
I'm currently getting a major in Interaction Design, didn't see that coming did you now? Just wanted to point out that graphics design is absolutely not the same as UI/UX design. At all.

>>56174918
>>56177973
>>56174906
https://www.nsa.gov/what-we-do/research/selinux/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux

> ouch.png

>>56172957
wtf? I have tabs in dolphin but I don't see a way to do a twin view like that. how do?

>>56181476
Do you honestly think that this is a thing nowadays?
If so, that is kind of sad.

>>56174888
maki a slut

>>56182244
It seems to be.
>brb installing Arch now

>>56175815
It's a fucking video player, you shouldn't have to google how to change volume, font or whatever extremely basic functions.
if you put aside the sightly lower quality on vlc, EVERYTHING, yes EVERYTHING is way better than other video players.

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>>56175341
>what is Bomi

>>56174997
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour
Lost!

>>56173432
>When some neckbeard releases some code, calls it official to the distro, does not test it, then forgets the code exists
this happens all the time in corporate and FOSS software generally has higher quality code than proprietary software.

>>56182473
As if you knew how to change anything when you were a kid/opened a video player the first time in your life. It's basically the same. Here's a short story;
>you use a pc for the first time in your life
>it says "Windows" while it's booting
>don't know how to do shit in it except click on stuff
>break things many times, Google or ask people for help
>in a few years you learn how to use a pc and all the basics
>5-10 years later you try to switch to Linux
>it doesn't work because it's "too difficult" to use and you're too lazy to google
>you just call it quits and say linux is for no life nerds because you're incapable of spending some time learning how to use a new OS, even though you didn't even know how to use Windows when you first had it
You can't expect every single piece of software to be the same, you can't expect to know how to use everything out of the box, you can't say some software sucks just because you're too incompetent to learn how to use it. In the end nobody is forcing you to use anything you don't like. Everyone has preferences.

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ITT

>>56182782
My first os was fedora core 2 with gnome 2 and I discover windows with windows 10.
Check mate atheists.
>tfw my parents were both contributors to linux during my childhood

>>56176804
yep
>linux for hosting
>mac for autistic artists
>windows for shitposting

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>>56182732
>FOSS software generally has higher quality code than proprietary software.

>>56182873
god damn linux shills

>>56182873
AYY

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>>56172957
That isn't gentoo

>>56173026
>yougetwhatyoupayfor.jpg
>yougetwhatyouworkfor.png

>>56173204
>You name it, I've probably downloaded it
devuan

>>56173204
gentoo installed yet?

>>56173182
what distro?

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>>56172947
kill self

been using it for a long time.

got a gpu for next to nothing, tried the pci passthrough method to get 95% windows native performance on gaming.

yeah turns out it is bullshit.

nVidia crashes their driver on purpose cause fuck you and AMD driver crashes in the faster q36 chipset configurations cause lol AMD.

so it works great if you have a dogshit old gpu, but I can already play 10 year old games fine in wine.

>>56172947
Question are you a fucking retard?

Because i can tell you right now if i can figure linux out you must be an idiot.

because ive used windows my entire life but decided i wanted more privacy so i started dual booting win10 for games and opensuse with kde for all my normal computer needs.

I dont know jack shit about coding yet i was able to use terminal to enable vlc and amd gpu drivers and install all the proper codecs all thanks to the power of using FUCKING GOOGLE

hell my only complaint is the lack of a spotify app

>>56172993
Holy fuck kek

>>56172947
The only reason I stuck with GNU/Linux was after trying all the flavour of the month distros, I installed Ubuntu and didn't hesitate for a second in installing non-free drivers/firmwares/anything else. Now it was a working productive OS with a wealth of information available online to learn about Linux. Any distribution after that was a lot easier to manage

I.e. install Ubuntu