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| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on January 25, 2019, 08:08:04 am ---while btrfs will almost certainly become corrupted at a power outage or a hard shutdown. This disqualifies btrfs for my usage. --- End quote --- Having had several power outages and an SSD which simply vanishes after a random period of time running btrfs and having no corruption, loss of data, or other issues, 'almost certainly' is rather an extreme exaggeration. |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on January 25, 2019, 12:31:37 pm --- --- Quote from: Simon on January 25, 2019, 07:31:35 am ---I'm jumping in at the tail end here --- End quote --- With the same old nonsense. --- Quote ---Figure out how it works --- End quote --- There's lots of documentation. --- Quote ---Get any device younger than 10 yrs old to work --- End quote --- Not very problematic, I don't own much stuff that old, and it all works.. --- Quote ---forget wifi adapters forget 4K screens --- End quote --- Rubbish. --- Quote ---so called open source --- End quote --- 'so called'? Just because you don't care doesn't mean it isn't. --- End quote --- Well thankyou for the insults. I have tried linux from time to time and every time it has been simply too much effort. Most people who advocate linux are hardcore users and well if they love linux and tinkering with it that is fine but you can't just choose to use linux as an operating system as it is NOT designed for the casual user which is evident from the virtually no control panel but for some very basic options most things are done on the command line. Windows is designed to be intuitive to a degree and most (the absolute vast majority) will get by without command line interventions. This is of course added to the fact that most commercial software does not have a linux version and never will as there are so many versions that no comercial outfit in their right mind will even attemp to service all of them. We really need a ubiquotus linux like we have a one and only windows which for better or worse is just one flavour of an operating system not dozens with everyone claiming that theirs is the best. So pray how does the average user get any wifi adapter working and a 4K screen to work? this is trouble enough on windows. |
| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: Simon on January 25, 2019, 01:57:01 pm ---So pray how does the average user get any wifi adapter working and a 4K screen to work? this is trouble enough on windows. --- End quote --- In the majority of cases, they don't have to do anything. Install a desktop distro, things work. 4K is just a high resolution - it's no different to driving any other monitor. And wifi mostly just works. |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on January 25, 2019, 02:03:41 pm --- --- Quote from: Simon on January 25, 2019, 01:57:01 pm ---So pray how does the average user get any wifi adapter working and a 4K screen to work? this is trouble enough on windows. --- End quote --- In the majority of cases, they don't have to do anything. Install a desktop distro, things work. 4K is just a high resolution - it's no different to driving any other monitor. And wifi mostly just works. --- End quote --- Never happened for me. The only time wifi worked was when I used it on a laptop and when I used some cheap chinese adapters that probably had older and very generic chips but it's luck of the draw. buy a new 5GHz adaptor and wish yourself luck! 4K monitors, sure they are just another resolution but as it happens there is more to monitors than pexil count but pixels per inch. So far pixel density has been pretty constant and it never mattered but with 4K things change, the pixel density is usually doubled and the OS/graphics needs to know about it and handle it. Windows is only just getting to grips with this with mixed results for programs not specifically written for high dpi. Sure I can set my 4K monitor to HD but that is the monitor offering support to linux not linux supporting 4K. I live to live this side of the millenium if that is not too much to ask. |
| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: Simon on January 25, 2019, 02:15:03 pm --- --- Quote from: Monkeh on January 25, 2019, 02:03:41 pm --- --- Quote from: Simon on January 25, 2019, 01:57:01 pm ---So pray how does the average user get any wifi adapter working and a 4K screen to work? this is trouble enough on windows. --- End quote --- In the majority of cases, they don't have to do anything. Install a desktop distro, things work. 4K is just a high resolution - it's no different to driving any other monitor. And wifi mostly just works. --- End quote --- Never happened for me. The only time wifi worked was when I used it on a laptop and when I used some cheap chinese adapters that probably had older and very generic chips but it's luck of the draw. buy a new 5GHz adaptor and wish yourself luck! --- End quote --- I don't need luck, I have the Internet. I am capable of researching things to make sure I don't buy a turd (ps. there are lots of turds for Windows, too). I have PCI, PCIe, USB, and SDIO (or was that one UART? eh..) wifi interfaces from every major manufacturer going back to the dawn of wifi, and all of them work. --- Quote ---4K monitors, sure they are just another resolution but as it happens there is more to monitors than pexil count but pixels per inch. So far pixel density has been pretty constant and it never mattered but with 4K things change, the pixel density is usually doubled and the OS/graphics needs to know about it and handle it. Windows is only just getting to grips with this with mixed results for programs not specifically written for high dpi. --- End quote --- Wow, I mean, in 20+ years of using computers, I never knew that. Oh, wait.. Linux is pretty good at that now - and it has room to be improved without waiting on certain uncaring organisations. --- Quote ---I live to live this side of the millenium if that is not too much to ask. --- End quote --- I like people to use the resources this side of the millennium provides, if that is not too much to ask. |
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