@lycaon @bea Eh, YMMV. I work on Windows all day (.NET webshit), and I have to say, it is a Tremendous Relief to get back to my Linux boxes. Windows isn't unusably bad anymore, but it is soulcrushingly tedious.

@gcupc @bea this post is bad and wrong and you're wrong

@lycaon @gcupc 😂

@lycaon @bea 🤣

@bea @gcupc there are *things* I like about linux. I like being able to customize my desktop environment (however, when I tried to do that, it broke my computer and I had to stop trying to do that). I like package managers (however, I don't like having to go through a billion hoops to install something not available on the package manager). I like having a nice, usable command line! but so much software is broken on it, so much isn't available on it, and most of the stuff that *is* available on it is only available in a form vastly inferior to versions on other OSes.

@gcupc @bea it doesn't play nice with my graphics card; I have to unplug one of my monitors every time I start up because otherwise it breaks the display and I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to fix it.

@bea @gcupc It's constantly trying to pump audio into my monitor (which has no speakers) instead of my sound card to my headphones.

@gcupc @bea The autocomplete in bash is vastly inferior to the autocomplete in powershell; I have to match case in bash and it doesn't let you cycle through autocomplete options by hitting tab repeatedly.

@bea @gcupc The volume mixer has disappeared from my icon tray and I can't figure out why.

@gcupc @bea I could go on. Linux is a hot pile of garbage and I hate it.

@lycaon @gcupc this is about what i expected yep

glad to see not much has changed! will save myself the trouble of trying (which i go get tempted by every so often)

@lycaon that's why I use fish instead of bash! it's one of the best command lines I've ever used and I wish it was more common

@lizardsquid installed fish regretted it.

honestly given the rest of what is listed, doubt that fixes the overall issue :p

@LottieVixen oh? why's that?

@lizardsquid did you see the rest of the list toots? fish wouldn't fix it :p

@LottieVixen oh yeah, I just meant "why did you regret fish?"

@lizardsquid oh eugh it was quite a curve from bash, porting my settings over as well as theming was a pain iirc

@LottieVixen oh yeah, I had to consciously ignore my bash settings and just build off the defaults of fish

@bea @lycaon Thirded, the times I ran it I kinda wish I didn't. All the headaches. it's not usuable for a desktop unless you do very basic tasks and never deviate, apart from some specialist tasks (android/java dev), which are annoying but setup once but then done on windows.

and I lost my train of thought darn it...but yeah a VM will do for most *nix tasks, modeling production, playing with lil things, etc.

@lycaon @bea It's really not worth the switch given some of the pains it can give, most the time its easier to stay on your current OS (Windows/Mac) and learn how to use it properly

(Issue of mine in the past was OS hopping due to what was "easy" in an OS rather than learning)