I think the “want to run smoothly” train left generations ago. It’s just too much junk everywhere.
I use Arch btw and it Just Works™️ Switched away from windows a few months ago and it’s been nothing but sunshine. I love having an os that does what I tell it to.
I have to use windows 11 at school and god damn. What a shit experience. I’ve put so much work into forcing my station there to be baseline functional. I’ve used windows my whole life and the number of weirdnesses already required decades of arcane knowledge to work past, and windows 11 is like pouring flaming diarrhea into the mix
I’ve had the exact opposite happen. I’ve known Windows most of my life and now that I had to switch to Linux, I wanted to customize it. I was looking for a way to cycle through a whole background folder at random. In windows that was easy, just tell it to cycle through that folder. In Linux I couldn’t find any option, not even in the documenration. Skimming through the internet I was reading through threads and forums and they were talking about moving the pictures to /usr/shr/backgrounds but that’s not possible since its 20+GB. Then someone explained in length how to write .xml files with a link inside to point to one picture. One picture. The answers got weirder and crazier and by the time I came back to myself I was losing it.
That depends entirely on your DE (you didn’t mention yours). I can easily do this through GUI on KDE and XFCE.
Easy to do in cinnamon too. Just choose the folder and you’re done.
Plasma’s wallpaper slideshow does exactly that. The only setup/configuration you need to do is select the folders you want included.
Windows doesn’t do that for nested folders as far as I know. I was using John’s Background Switcher because the native Windows slideshow sucks.
I’m using Manjaro Gnome since Plasma had random freezes and shutdowns and XFCE I just couldn’t warm up with it.
I’m guessing KDE Plasma on Manjaro? Because on my Fedora I haven’t experienced any random crashes. This might be more a specific distro bug than a DE one.
Recently switched to a MacBook for school. Switching to Linux on my Desktop at home.
If users want windows to run smoothly they need to try another OS
Most of us still have to work on Windows in business environment. This is not going to change, even if I’d like it to. Troubleshooting M$ products is probably at least 30% of my job at this point…
You’re literally one of the people working a job that heavily involves Windows, how do you pretend you’re not one of the people that decides whether this changes? The cult of denialism is mind boggling. If you don’t want to change the fact that you work at a Windows-supporting job, that sounds like why you are at a Windows-supporting job, not that it’s impossible to change
Because we’re not the decision makers…? What? Are you for real?
Why do I have to reboot all the time? And does rebooting seem to fix most issues?
IMO rebooting all the time is an issue
