And was your username <name/ID>@<domain>?

Because that’s the same thing as entering the name/ID and domain separately. It’s just put into a different field.

Speed is relative to the task. On my window’s machine, I’m running a 7 year old gaming computer and never thought that my computer is super slow. Also, after installing Mint on it, the speed is barely noticeable at best.

I was more talking about lower power computers, not gaming PCs.

Old hardware support? Shoot, Mint could barely get new hardware working properly.

This is because hardware manufacturers regularly never release the specs for their devices, so the drivers have to be reverse engineered first (or the manufacturer’s proprietary drivers installed in whatever weird way they dictate). Old hardware has already had this done, so it absolutely works. New hardware is irrelevant to this.

I’m trying to snap my windows to different ratios or tile out of the box. Mint, PopOS and Ubuntu does not have these features and I was trying to install it first from Flatpak and then in apt-get. Both failed.

I still don’t understand what you were trying to install? You can’t install features, you install programs. This is the same for all operating systems, it’s not unique to Linux-based ones.

Good, I can check it out. Mint and PopOS and Ubuntu does not have this feature.

Kubuntu is the KDE spin of Ubuntu and it should work too.

What is inaccurate? That I had a hard time trying to install a very basic feature on Mint and failed? Seems pretty straight forward.

That you’re saying Linux can’t do these things.

Don’t get me started on installing Tailscale. While I was ultimately successful doing this in terminal, I would not want my mother in law trying to figure it out.

Why would your mother in law be installing Tailscale?

Ah yeah, that’s just what you need to do to connect to Eduroam on anything, since you need to authenticate via your institution.

Regular, non tinkerers people, normies have different needs, none of which Linux has a advantage on.

Speed, privacy, old hardware support, benefits from community modifications (gaming performance kernels etc).

Can KDE snap to 3 screens evenly? Or4? Or 1/4, 1/2, 1/4? Because Win11 does it out of the box.

Yes

I started with the GUI flatpak interface first and after those apps didn’t work, I went to google/forums. At the end of the day, I still didn’t accomplish a simple task Win11 has out of the box.

I still dont understand what you were trying to achieve that you couldn’t have done, at worst, in Synaptic package manager (a GUI program).

You saying I’m spreading misinformation implies you don’t acknowledge my frustrations and grievances.

I don’t mean to say you’re doing it intentionally, just that when you state Linux can’t do these things it’s not exactly correct.

I’m obviously going to be downvoted for this, but the second you ask me to use the terminal is the second the OS is not ready.

Well then I suppose Windows is not ready if every update you need to run a PowerShell script to debloat and disable telemetry.

I spent a few hours in terminal trying to install something after trying everything in flatpak.

And you didn’t consider to use the graphical package manager which can do the same thing?

Windows 11 split screens out of the box. It can even tile. You can even use hotkeys to snap left and right.

So can I, on KDE Plasma. Admittedly, I don’t know what the situation on Cinnamon is.

In order for normies like me to switch, you have to make the OS at as easy to use as Windows.

For non power user use-cases it is absolutely possible to use as easily as Windows.

Respectfully, please dont spread misinformation about what Linux is and is not capable of.

I’ve heard of issues connecting to Eduroam a few times on Linux, but I just don’t get it.

I’m on Debian with KDE Plasma, and it was very much plug-and-play when connecting to Eduroam. What issues did you have?