• skibidi@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I love Linux, but it isn’t ready.

    Two weeks ago my side mouse buttons started working (they require Logitech software on Windows, wasn’t expecting them to work). Last week they stopped. This week they work again.

    Is this major? Not at all. Would it drive my mother-in-law into a rage rivaling that of Cocaine Bear? Absolutely. Spare me from the bear, keep Linux for the tinkerers.

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      5 days ago

      Same. I have a Kensington trackball with a decent config and button mapping software in Windows that I will NOT give up. I tried Mint for a few weeks, but it just became too stupidly cumbersome to Google every single thing. Like I wanted to implement the Windows PIN thing for startup on my PC… Yeah no.

      Linux has come a long way but it’s not ready for the commoners like me. And a free open source OS probably cannot be developed for the masses without some major funding with a dedicated team.

      So back to Win 10, Enterprised with massgrave.

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        4 days ago

        You’re getting downvoted because the Linux community can’t understand people like us that just want things to work without needing to google everything or paste in random scripts into terminal. Linux is just an OS for tinkerers and not for normies.

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        5 days ago

        implement the Windows PIN thing for startup on my PC

        If you’re that specific in your requirements, you’re gonna have a bad time. I don’t think Microsoft makes “Windows PIN” for Linux.

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          4 days ago

          As a normie myself, let me translate this to you tech literate nerds.

          I think he is basically saying there is a macro software that inputs his pin on his mouse so he doesn’t have to constantly input his password.