ryncewynd

I preferred the usability, searchability and content of reddit.

Hopefully lemmy eventually catches up

Using a 3rd party app of course, hated the native reddit website/app

My favourite so far is Windows as my DE and WSL for my Linux

Thanks for your reply.

I've heard many people mentioning EndevourOS and I think that's based on Arch?

EndevourOS was top of my list to try next time I'm willing to give Linux another shot.

The most interesting distro I tried was MicroOS (opensuse immutable). I really liked the immutable concept, keeping the base OS clean and mess around inside containers. Very cool

2022 and 2023 I made multiple decent attempts to go Linux and I've finally ragequit back to Windows where things finally just work. Currently using WSL for my Linux needs.

So many frustrating hours.

• Unresolvable sound issues
• Multi monitor issues
• Size scaling issues
• Couldn't get my games working even for Gold rated proton games
• Don't think I ever got nvidia drivers working correctly
• Really struggled on some distros to find the correct packages for some things because they were named differently?
• Couldn't find how to set a desktop background that filled my entire screen in Gnome. It kept repeating to fill the screen instead of just "zooming"
• Got 100% CPU usage in KDE just doing nothing
• Didn't even want to start figuring how to run my Windows-only apps because by that time I was a bundle of stress and just wanted to use my pc without fighting it every step

Conclusion for me: Windows is best DE, so use Windows+WSL

I'm a bit sad about it because I'm getting more and more frustrated with Windows 11 direction. It seems each update brings a new configuration or "feature" that makes things more difficult for me.

I do feel I am being pushed out of Windows.

For about the last 10 years I try going Linux roughly every 3 years. So I'll give it another shot in a couple of years.

I fully understand for some people it just works. But it is not yet my personal Year Of Linux Desktop

It's really the phrasing "average joe". I would genuinely give the average Joe a strong recommendation to not self host.

A beginner wanting to learn to be more techy and willing to put in hours for troubleshooting etc? Sure go ahead. But thats definitely not the average Joe.

My biggest advice to a beginner would be to buy a spare budget router, plug it into your ISP router, plug your pc into the new router and do all your messing around in your own network.

Break the internet because of bad configure? No stress, it's only your little network, your flatmates/family aren't yelling at you.

Can't figure out what you did wrong and want the internet back to search? Just plug your pc back to the untouched ISP router so you get internet again

Self hosting nothing changed my life.

So much free time and less stress once I abandoned self hosting 😅

I heard of Beehaw first but I got rejected twice when trying to make an account, so I tried World next and here I am.

Also don't understand how things work, so wasn't really sure what lemmy.ml was but I read it didn't matter where you created an account so I just stuck with World 🤷

Yes I like compact view, but a "text only" view would be great also. I'd probably use that when on mobile data.

I also noticed Compact View still loads the full image. I see some posts it downloads a full high res 4mb image just to display it in a tiny thumbnail. Not good for mobile data 🤣

Yes I like compact view, but a "text only" view would be great also. I'd probably use that when on mobile data.

I also noticed Compact View still loads the full image. I see some posts it downloads a full high res 4mb image just to display it in a tiny thumbnail. Not good for mobile data 🤣

Ohh that's perfect, thank you very much

Ah so that's what's happening. Super frustrating. Thought my browser was breaking