The concept of “real fan” is flawed I think. I’ve never assembled a WH40K model or read any of the spinoff novels, to say nothing of playing the actual tabletop game, but I’d say I’m a fan of the franchise. I’ve played some of the video games (Space Marine, Mechanicus, Boltgun) and enjoyed them. I enjoy reading lore and worldbuilding stuff from wikis even if I’ve never touched the franchise itself, and my knowledge of 40k is almost exclusively from such wikis.
I drove my friend’s RC car into a storm drain when I was a kid.
So if anything, it’s not that “Linux doesn’t support Logitech” it’s that Logitech doesn’t Support Linux.
While you are correct, you’re also missing the point. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. The end user doesn’t care whose “fault” it is. They only care that they have a tool in front of them that does not meet their needs. If the end user needs a mouse with a billion macro buttons, then an OS that does not support a mouse with a billion macro buttons will not work for them. If you want that user to be a happy Linux user, then you’d better make that mouse work.
Half the people in this thread can’t see that most people, no I don’t mean most people on Lemmy, just most people period, want their computer to be a tool, a means to an end. They want it to get out of the way and enable them to crunch spreadsheet numbers or play video games or paint digital art or process words. If you’re an able-bodied software developer, desktop Linux is an excellent tool. If you’re an able-bodied anything else and have found that Linux works for you, good on you, but you’re a minority. If you’re a disabled anything else and have found that Linux works for you, please tell me how because I would love nothing more than to leave Windows and go somewhere that lets my personal computer be my personal computer.
What makes you qualified to make that statement? I have to rely on assistive software to use a computer. I am the only judge of what meets my needs, and years of trying to use it have informed me that desktop Linux does not meet my needs. period. end of discussion. I have made the reasons why clear elsewhere in this thread.
I always disable the card in the BIOS before I do anything that requires it to be disconnected. In this case I had both an Ethernet adapter and WiFi radio. Both were disabled and I’m currently typing from my newly decrappified and locally managed system.
Here are my exact steps:
shift+F10, then entered oobe\bypassnro.I don't have internet. I clicked it and it let me create a local account.If you use Excel every day, switching is likely not pragmatic, as the OSS solutions simply don’t compare yet and will always fall short if you use tables (about 90% of the spreadsheets I’ve ever been sent).
thisthisthisthis. I use Excel tables constantly. It’s a common theme with LibreOffice. Got something simple, maybe a doc with a few headers? Great, no problem, you can interoperate just fine. But go off the beaten path and you inevitably run into trouble. If I were sharing documents with exactly nobody I could happily switch, but the reality is I have to work with other people. And Windows/Office is what other people use. This is what I mean when I say Linux only works if you’re a dev. There’s lots of excellent text editors and IDEs and compilers and the like, but outside of that verdant oasis it’s a desert of broken non-options.
Regarding Mint, Bluetooth is maddeningly inconsistent. I’ve had stuff that works perfectly… exactly once, then never ever again, no matter what unspeakable tortures I inflict on the Bluetooth settings or what arcane wizardry I attempt in the terminal.
Thanks, have an upvote :)
What distro of Linux did you use that was so difficult? Something like Mint is very entry level and intuitive. You don’t have to run any terminal commands if you don’t want to, and the out of box configuration is good enough that you don’t have to modify anything for a stable, up to date system.
I started with Ubuntu 8.10 in early 2009. From there I’ve tried mostly Ubuntu but have explored other distros. My usage pattern usually goes like this. I get sick of some Windows BS or just want to convince myself I’m a competent IT industry professional. I install some Linux distro on a separate SSD and only boot into that for as long as I can. The phase usually lasts from a week to about 2 or 3 months. My longest I think was between November 2023 and March of 2024 where I used Mint. I’ve tried all the various *buntus, Pop!_OS, CentOS (RIP). I’ve even used Arch btw, installed it myself and everything. In the end I either run into something that simply doesn’t exist on Linux or get sick of arcane kludges for things that just work on Windows and then come crawling back to Bill feeling defeated. This happens at least once a year but usually more.
Non-existent accessibility is the biggest hurdle, and I have zero faith that it will improve. Accessibility is an afterthought even for huge companies with the resources to devote to it, and you can forget about it for the comparatively smaller loose associations of developers contributing to the software stack that is a typical Linux distro. I was there for the transition from GNOME 2 to Unity and eventually to GNOME 3, as well as from X to Wayland, and it’s just been downhill each time. Orca simply doesn’t work, period. Magnification, if present at all, is glitchy and prone to freezing or crashing. The best I can do is a workaround using espeak and xclip to speak text copied to the clipboard, which, yes, involves the terminal. Is it cool that that’s possible? sure. But I have to put an alias into my .bashrc and constantly tab back and forth between whatever I’m reading and the terminal. Not a big deal if you’re only doing it once or twice, but I have to do it hundreds of times a day. If you encounter a little issue that often it’s no longer little. On windows it’s just ctrl+alt+LMB that’s it.
I find it’s really hard to impress upon sighted users why this is a problem. Imagine someone hands you a laptop, but the monitor either doesn’t work or shuts off at random. Then when you complain, you’re told “It works for me” or “That’s not my problem” or “I don’t know how to help you” or if you’re lucky, a half-dismissive “We’re working on it.” That’s Linux when you’re blind. Can you live with a non working display? Would you call an OS like that ready to ship? Yes this is a problem with commercial software as well, but it’s orders of magnitude worse with Linux.
Yes. I meant “big” as in influential. Lazy typing on phone.
Every country has problems. America is so big that its problems become everyone else’s problems too. If America sneezes the world catches a cold.
I’ve done some research after posting the OP, by which I mean watching a few YT videos of people who have looked into the matter. It seems the founder was insistent that the site not become another Yahoo answers, so the process of asking a question was made to be high friction in order to improve the signal to noise ratio for people looking up answers later, such as with google.
While they succeeded in not becoming another Yahoo Answers, they’ve instead become so impenetrable as to be useless. It got to the point I’d avoid clicking on SO when it came up in search results because I figured the question wouldn’t be answered anyway, so they ended up not making the experience better for future googlers after all.
Yes. I tell people that IT isn’t about knowing the answer right away, it’s about knowing which questions to ask, where to ask those questions, and how to interpret the results. These skills are in no way obvious if you aren’t familiar with the system you’re working with.
Problem is that more experienced folks forget that they were noobs once, too, and there was a time they didn’t know what ARP was, let alone that not sending ARP response packets could cause a device to stop communicating.
In my experience the question is either not actually a duplicate or the answer is no longer valid.
So THAT’S why it’s called the web!
They have chosen you. You’re clearly the protagonist.
OK I’m being snarky after just having complained about being snarky elsewhere. Perhaps citronella candles?
When I was little I had my parents read to me from the Mario 3 instruction manual before going to bed.
Manuals were necessary because the games back then couldn’t fit a tutorial and, especially in the Atari days, the art didn’t always get across what was going on.
I too had my nose in the manual on the ride home. My parents had a rule that we couldn’t bring portable game systems (Game Gear in my case) on “short” car rides, so I’d sometimes bring a manual to look at.
I recommend Tunic if you’re nostalgic for game manuals
Regarding the text of the OP, that sense of discovery is gone now. The internet has ruined it. All the secrets get posted online within the first week, and there’s a wiki up in short order spoiling it for future players.
modulator-demodulator
One of the things that got me into ham radio was hearing “old school modem noises” while playing around with an RTL-SDR dongle. Turns out it was APRS.
Is shunning people for not using Linux also gatekeeping? I feel like I get that a lot.