My expectation of Linux was the sports car, my experience varied wildly from Distro to Distro, and occasionally lived up to the expectation, but usually looked like:
I do love me some Gunpla, but I wasn’t thrilled about the computing equivalent of having to sand, glue, assemble, and paint a Master Grade kit every time my distro upgraded and everything inevitably broke. Granted, a lot of that boils down to matching the right DE for your distro, and I liked to try to make KDE fit where it wasn’t necessarily the best option. Eventually, I learned to enjoy GNOME, but then started messing with distros that weren’t a good fit with that. The freedom Linux offers is both its greatest asset, and biggest weakness. It can make just setting up a basic, decent-looking desktop environment feel like you need IT classes just to know what the heck you’re supposed to do to get things working the way Windows and MacOS do right out of the box.
It’s excellent when it works. But a frustrating, often times deliberately obtuse mess when it doesn’t.
Same, I mainly use my PC for gaming, and at least as recently as 2015, Linux and gaming went together like oil and water, and unlike in the kitchen, I didn’t know where the emulsifier was. I first tried Linux in 98 or 99. Windows does what I want without a heck of a lot of tweaking
My expectation of Linux was the sports car, my experience varied wildly from Distro to Distro, and occasionally lived up to the expectation, but usually looked like:
Gunpla is freedom, after all.
I do love me some Gunpla, but I wasn’t thrilled about the computing equivalent of having to sand, glue, assemble, and paint a Master Grade kit every time my distro upgraded and everything inevitably broke. Granted, a lot of that boils down to matching the right DE for your distro, and I liked to try to make KDE fit where it wasn’t necessarily the best option. Eventually, I learned to enjoy GNOME, but then started messing with distros that weren’t a good fit with that. The freedom Linux offers is both its greatest asset, and biggest weakness. It can make just setting up a basic, decent-looking desktop environment feel like you need IT classes just to know what the heck you’re supposed to do to get things working the way Windows and MacOS do right out of the box.
It’s excellent when it works. But a frustrating, often times deliberately obtuse mess when it doesn’t.
Same, I mainly use my PC for gaming, and at least as recently as 2015, Linux and gaming went together like oil and water, and unlike in the kitchen, I didn’t know where the emulsifier was. I first tried Linux in 98 or 99. Windows does what I want without a heck of a lot of tweaking