I gave Linux another shot this past month. It was a lot better than I remembered, but still not good enough, basically in the reliability areas. I wish the experience was “it all just works” like so many have said.

I may not mind giving it another try when Windows Recall goes live.

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Just randomly wondering, which distro did you use on what hardware?

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I used Linux Mint 21 first, which didn't (correctly) support my ancient wi-fi card or graphics driver. I then tried 22, which was much better, but failed to run a number of games, exhibiting a variety of issues not listed on ProtonDB.

I then switched to Bazzite, which ran those same games correctly, but its OS-integrated file explorer was oversimplified far past what Windows does, it failed to install several Linux-native applications, alt-tab behavior was frequently glitchy around games, and often I would come back from sleep mode with bizarre graphical glitches forcing me to restart.

I'm not even highlighting the poor usability, or the stuff I might be able to reconfigure. I'm okay with taking time to tweak my OS how I want it, but not when that's just a matter of having it work correctly.

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

That sucks it didn't work well for you. Hopefully the useability is more improved the next time you may be willing to try again.

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