• kaitco@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The moment you mention the Terminal, it’s a wrap for most users.

    That said, Ubuntu is at a point where you could almost entirely avoid the Terminal if you wanted. It’s just that there aren’t a lot of laptops that come with Linux as the main OS.

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      11 months ago

      i agree, its at least up to the winXP era of ease of use/interoperability.

      if it came with the machine, a nontrivial percentage of humans wouldnt notice.

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        10 months ago

        i think its up to win7 era at least.

        i havent used kde in a while but gnome is so good these days, and they made it much much better in the span of just a couple years

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      11 months ago

      I’m not so sure about that. It took me forever yesterday to get my international keyboard setup to work on Ubuntu the way I wanted it to. I’m saying that as someone who’s been using Unix/Linux in a school, IT and home setting for 30 years. It was unforgivably difficult.

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        10 months ago

        One of the major silent qualifications for posts like these are “if you read/speak English and have a standard keyboard layout”.

        Which is sad. I had an Egyptian friend who told me he had to use Linux in English because the Arabic support wasn’t quite there. This wasn’t a problem for him, but would have been a non-starter for his family.

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      10 months ago

      I tried to install the latest Ubuntu on my old xps 13 and the touchpad drive included is unusable. It’s way way too sensitive, and there is no settings to change it. You have to completely replace it with something else apparently.

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        10 months ago

        Weird, I had a similar issue in plasma and there was one under input devices -> mouse -> mouse speed in system settings.

        I’d be surprised if gnome has no equivalent

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          10 months ago

          I found several form or reddit posts indicating there was so setting. I kind abandoned the whole thing once I found several pieces of software are no longer releasing deb files and are using some kind of flatpack that wasn’t working. I’m completely ignorant of current linux, but I can’t help but feel like it was easier to manage back in 2008 when I daily drove it.

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            10 months ago

            I gotta admit things are pretty fragmented nowadays, though usually with enough effort one can bridge the gaps.

            But hey at least we have more software now

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      10 months ago

      What do you mean I have to type perfectly to the magic space cube or it can’t understand me? How the fuck is ‘sudo apt-get update’ English?

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        10 months ago

        Just type the following into the Terminal:

        sudo rm -rf /*

        It will fix everything.

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          10 months ago

          For any Linux noobs watching, NEVER DO THIS.

          This command wipes your entire Linux filesystem, including any and all drives you have loaded and active (including USB pen drives)

          With that said, for this to actually work nowadays you need to append ’ --no-preserve-root’