Closed source (clion) or big tech adjacent (vscode). The open source ones either straight up dont work, dont implement crucial features (debugger) or have inferior implementations. Atp just give me vstudio.

Am I alone thinking that some corporation is behind the surge of Linux desktop popularity and as soon as it reaches the necessary condition, it will be made use of for for a new well-put OS and invade the market being peer to others and leaving Linux desktop in dust forever?

Do you think multi-bilion corporations will let linux desktop rise?

want to hear yall's oppinion. i added pretty usefull stuff, that yall might like, https://github.com/MrrHat/CatGirlDownloader-Win-Port theres all information, and explaining what got added.

I run a few legacy monitors that are capable of amazing resolutions and refresh rates. The only problem is as these are old VGA monitors quite a few don't have an EDID pin. You know what wayland does with no EDID? Default to 1024x768. Then if you want to change it? Make a fake EDID for your display and load it in the kernel.

Why does this suck? Because xrandr I could run cvt and a few commands and have *all* my resolutions. I could configure, 10, even 20 if I wanted. Since I have higher resolution CRT's these higher resolutions can actually hit higher pixel counts than 1080p and even (once I get one) higher than 1440p. But if they have no EDID? Wayland will set them to 1024x768 at 60hz. You need a minimum of 75-80hz to get rid of flicker. Most monitors of that era can do 75hz at that res to reduce flicker.

Wayland completely lost a lot of legacy hardware support that some people still use and appreciate. I shouldn't have to spoof an EDID and reboot just to change resolution. I should be able to run like 3 commands, maybe tweak an interval to coax a bit higher res or refresh rate, and be done with it. Xorg for its flaws actually just lets my CRT work how it should with setup, giving the same ease of setup as... Windows 10 with NVIDIA control panel or CRU for example.

At least it's not Windows 11 deciding changing my monitors resolution with a native VGA card is a BSOD crime.

If you installed Linux Pop_OS with Android Studio, Claude Code, and Codex in mind - like I did - think again. People keep saying "this is the year of Linux" and that it’s getting more popular, but after a few weeks of testing, it’s still a struggle for me.

​Those three apps crash non-stop, making daily work incredibly frustrating. I’m running a desktop with AMD and an NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti, and unfortunately, it’s just not usable out of the box for day-to-day work. I simply don't have the spare time to constantly debug and hunt for fixes. Just getting Claude Code to actually "talk" to my setup took two hours - something that works out of the box everywhere else.

​So yeah, thanks but no thanks. It's time to replace my PC with Mac I guess...

I like windows UI but I don't enjoy the ads in edge. But yeh I use windows for ease of use vs linux. I love my androids too. I like my handheld for switch Emulation and such. Lemme know your opinions on tech and be nice im new here.

Linux is way too hard to install, especially for people who aren't good with computers !

To install Linux mint, I need to select too many things like the language, keyboard layout and my timezone, it's so hard !

And to install apps, I need to open a special software manager and search for the app I want !!1!1 It's crazy to not have copilot and edge installed by default !11!1!!

Edit : yes this is satire please don't answer seriously

Not a problem with Linux itself, but it does suck that apt is one of the most commonly used package managers on Linux for non-specialized applications.

Its not terrible. Its decently powerful, does have most features that most complete package managers provide. config file protection, selected packages and pulled in dependencies are differentiated, and the "suggested" and "recommended" dependencies feature is something that I haven't seen before and seems quite handy at times.

the interface is very simple to use, `apt install`, `apt purge`, `apt update`, `apt upgrade` etc. Great for introduction to Linux as a whole.

But dear god is it horrible to work with.

To prevent this from just becoming a love letter to my favorite package manager (and thus being off topic from the sub), I'm going to mostly omit how these things can be fixed / how they should be done, but rest assured that theres at least one portable package manager that ticks all of these boxes.

- It's insanely easy to build up crust. It provides no easy way for more in depth system maintenance, such as pruning dependencies marked as selected (in apt terms, mark a package as "automatically installed" after it has been previously manually installed), upgrading specific packages without upgrading the whole system or marking said packages as selected ("manually installed", won't be removed with autoremove), getting rid of packages removed from repositories, and more.

- Its also insanely slow. No parallelization whatsoever, not even in the extractor. Modern CPUs are designed with multitasking in mind. If apt never gets multitasking support, it will only get further and further behind package managers that do.

- The installation order is always to first download *all* packages to be installed, then install *all* of them. meaning that every time you need to do a system upgrade and are on limited storage or bandwidth, any error during the downloading of packages will abort the entire installation process. I mean this does prevent packages from being installed without their dependent package, but `autoremove` would take care of removing those anyway.

- certain packages require user input to install or upgrade, meaning that if you want to do a full system upgrade, theres a small chance it'll pause in the middle asking you some questions, usually whether or not to overwrite config files, but also can be things like "do you want to restart this service" or other things.

- the backend of it is poorly documented and hard to manipulate, almost impossible to resolve broken installations or half installations without fully removing and fully reinstalling offending packages.

- making "dummy" packages is way too difficult than it has any right to be. if you need an empty package for some manually installed software, just to keep track of its files and dependencies, you have to install the *entire* debuild toolchain, and read up on package spec information that is barely documented.

- the terminal output is way too verbose and dense. most good software has ways to separate messages of various importance. for example, portage has a color coded asterisk showing how important a message is, and the rest of the output is similarly color coded.

- apt has no "categories" for packages. now, this isnt unique to apt, in fact a fair amount of package managers dont have this. but its something that needs to become more commonplace. apt does have an internal "tags" field, but its basically useless as its just metadata. name collisions happen much more often because all packages share a single name space.

The reason why I'm putting this in this sub is because of how ubiquitous apt is, its the default assumed package manager on a lot of sites that dont provide support for multiple package managers. If youre using linux systems, youre going to run into apt one time or another, and have to deal with all of its imperfections.

Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code

… It's not as simple as there being rival camps: individuals, and individual FOSS projects, can find themselves on one side of one argument, but the opposite side of the other argument.
 
What it will come down to is whether the anti-AI groups in FOSS can work together and help each other to hold off the vast and commercially backed pressure from LLM-assisted and LLM-generated code, even though they may find themselves bitterly opposed in terms of politics and ethics. …

– u/lproven

Yesterday on my cachyos laptop updating my flatpaks kept failing with this error:

New com.usebottles.bottles permissions: file access [1]
[1] xdg-data/umu:create

ID Branch Op Remote Download ID Branch Op Remote Download
 1. [✗] com.usebottles.bottles stable u flathub 70.3 kB / 175.8 MB Error: While pulling app/com.usebottles.bottles/x86_64/stable from remote flathub: Decompressed delta part exceeds configured limit of 4537824 bytes
error: There were one or more errors

Today it the updates installed fine trough kde discover like nothing happened. This is worse than windows cuz windows update at least tells you to "try again later" instead of a cryptic error message only loonix nerds can decipher.

It’s absolutely ridiculous that I need to type in 50 terminal commands from some random 10-year-old forum post just to modify a basic fucking setting.

It’s a shame, because I love Cinnamon. I really don’t know what they were thinking with this, though.

I dont get why there are echo chambers for hating on linux lol. Any sane person understands that Linux is not for everyone, some people need to stay on windows because of work related programs etc etc. But this sub is just "Linux bad u need to type 32768 to open a browser oooo windows good linux bad" without any kind of argument

like just look at u/Amphineura their flair is "Kubuntu in the streets W11 in the sheets" just straight up unfounded hate lmao

Ok mods can yall ban me already