Have you ever been disappointed with Linux? (libretechni.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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Personally I haven't. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it's whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.

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[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 month ago

Trying to find the path of a mounted USB stick is painful as well. Is it at /mnt, /media or /run? Who the fuck knows.

At least with windows you just have drive letters

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If we're comparing Linux to Windows, then it should be noted there's Plasma and Gnome that will auto-detect any USB stick in existence and show you its path in the GUI.

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah, totally, but when using the terminal it's a pain

[-] Kimplul@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Does lsblk not work? I checked on my machine and it shows the correct path, assuming you know your stick is sdb or whatever. Something like lsblk -o MODEL,MOUNTPOINT is (generally) a bit more clear but admittedly getting into the 'pain' territory.

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