i miss some software so im writing my own
tbh it’s just good incentive for me to learn c
Out of curiosity, what software?
it’s a thing for specialised input remapping, I’m honestly surprised it doesn’t exist on Linux because Linux has so many keyboard remappers
I switched in 2005, I miss being in my 40’s. 😋
I switched at about the same time. I miss being in my twenties. 😋
Great comment.
I switched full time in 2010, but was mostly using Linux from 2008…I don’t really miss my 20’s, maybe the physical side of being sub-30.
I just miss my social life. Back when I was on Windows I had a lot of friends and was banging people constantly in my free time. As a Linux user, I’ve pretty much been ostracized by my local community and my mojo no longer works on the daily trimmings. I might give Mac a try, but I’m just not sure how many tide pods I could possibly eat.
I miss targeted advertisements. It’s important that my OS tracks what my interests are, so that I can be served more relevant advertising.
Advertising that doesn’t know my interests doesn’t hold my interest, and having no ads means that I have no idea what I’m supposed to purchase next. It’s crazy.
Thanks for taking the downvotes for the team. I laughed anyway :)
to edit CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT all night long
That’s far too retro. No one else will get the joke.
I’m here. I’m old too.
OS-level support for cloud storage. OneDrive, Dropbox and all the others work seamlessly on Windows through the Windows API. You can browse all the files on the file system and once you access them, the OS will call back the cloud provider to download them. It works through all applications, all cloud providers. I am aware that some tools on Linux have something similar to work around the issue in user land. Some solutions are less worse than others but none of them are as good as on Windows.
Nextcloud works that way for me. I access my Nextcloud files at
~/nextcloudwithout any hitch, and changes sync immediately. You do have to self-host, but I’m sure there are also some public instances you can use. I know Disroot hosts one.Currently we have an experimental VFS feature on all platforms that is using some suffix appended to files when they are virtual empty placeholders. https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/3668
Yeah, no thanks. It’s a very hacky work-around and breaks the moment you use an application that tries to access the files directly.
Oh you mean without downloading the files. I thought you just meant cloud sync. Yeah I have my entire Nextcloud downloaded and the folder is synced by the daemon, so I do just use the files as normal local files. Never tried without downloading all the files
My (self-hosted) cloud storage is larger than the disk drive on my laptop. On demand sync is important to me. I really, really hope Linux will catch up to Windows in that regard.
Windows’ lightweight photo editing thing. Great for highlighting screenshots.
All image editing software on linux (that I’ve tried) is 10x more clunky.
I’ve been using Flameshot, and it’s been awesome for just this. Tons of annotations, and very easy to copy or save screenshots.
I’ll check it out, thanks!
Firmware updates. Samsung doesn’t support Linux and so fwupd gets no security updates from them, fuck Samsung
Every game I want to play actually working first time everytime.
Yeah, even after owning a Steam Deck for a year and recently switching my Desktop to Linux, its very hard to get the settings right. Things Like uplay working in Steam Deck but Not out of the Box in my Desktop seems so insensical to me.
I’m running Bazzite, and haven’t had a single issue running a game…
I’m running bazzite too. What games have you been playing?
All of them… Lol. Way too big of a back log.
But I just picked up Tape to Tape and it’s super fun. Giving me vibes of old 16bit hockey games. What else…
I finally got Neon White on PC. Got it way back when it came out on Switch and played a little, but really prefer mouse and keyboard for fps. Very fun game.
Lorn’s Lure is another one I’ve been playing a lot. Amazing game, nothing quite like it.
Was enjoying UFO50, but haven’t picked it up in a couple weeks. Gonna go back to it.
What about you
So far I’ve tried space engineers, counter strike and beamng.drive although I haven’t gotten any of them to launch yet except counter strike but I have had terrible frame rate and stuttering that made it unplayable.
Maybe it’s your hardware? I recently got a Framework laptop, and Bazzite has a distro image tailored specifically for the hardware, and I think that makes a big difference.
But even still, I ran Arch (well EndeavourOS) on my old Laptop, and it ran the games that the specs could run…
When you launch a game for the first time are you letting it go for a bit (sometimes a minute or two even) while it seems like nothing is happening? This is just for the initial launch, but in my experience, it can seem like it’s not working but if you just let it go it will load. Then every time after that it’s right away.
Also, check your Steam settings re: compiling shaders and uncheck the setting to have them compile while playing. This will compile the shaders before the game launches (a pop-up will show you the % complete), and it prevents stuttering.
Other than that, all I can think is hardware… Or maybe you’re just super unlucky at picking games. I do always check ProtonDB first, so that could be why I’ve had nothing but good experiences.
I have beamng, but the one that plays like Wipeout, and I believe that one works. Though I think I’ve only tried it on my Steam Deck and not on Bazzite. Also, I understand it’s a different game.
Edit: Yeah, looking at protondb it looks like Space Engineers is one people have some issue with. Sometimes you can get it to work using solutions on there, but I guess every now and then you don’t. Hasn’t happened to me yet.
Update: I got space engineers and beamng.drive working it was probably a problem with not having write permission on my hdd(see comment I put above)
I am pretty sure i am running counter strike natively at the moment. How do I change it between running natively and running with proton? I think it might perform better with proton.
Oh, Linux started being like that some 3 or 4 years ago for me. Of course, it depends to some extent on the actual games you want to play. Destiny 2 is apparently never gonna run.
Support for auto cloud sync from vendors, or just auto cloud sync of setting between devices.
DE stability. I keep a Mac around for times when Gnome is kind of broken.
cmd shortcuts which don’t interfere with app shortcuts.
Powerful desktop Arm chips.
Gui to manage services.
Gui to manage firewall.
Easy fleet management tools.
A real terminal services and Remote Desktop solution.
Desktop icons.
Tighter userland security.
Tighter OS security. Mostly dm-verify and fs-verify.
Tiling support. (There are extensions, but I need to experiment.)
Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade.
Base and extras being cleanly separated.
Desktop session restore. Shut down pc, turn back on, everything like when shut down. Or on crash, sometime even kernel panic, restart and right back to work.
I’m honestly surprised that nobody has said anything about MS Office, but it’s not like I expect anyone to miss the application itself, it’s just that if your work requires you to interface with it, there really is no alternative to running Windows or MacOS. Microsoft’s own Office Online versions of the apps do a worse job of maintaining DOC/PPT formatting consistency than the possible Russian spyware that is OnlyOffice, which also screws things up too often to be relied upon. LibreOffice is, let’s be honest, a total mess (with the exception of Calc, which also isn’t consistent with the current version of Excel, but can do some things that Excel no longer can do, so I appreciate it more as a complementary tool than as a replacement).
Seamless adaption to higher DPI when I work remotely on my work Windows machine. The RDP clients will just expand the desktop and everything is very small when I WFH. mstsc will change the size of everything but legacy apps according to the DPI of the display.
Photoshop and stable nvidia drivers.
installing programs. there’s been random programs I’ve needed to download for school and I’ve sometimes spent hours running into random errors, having to find out what library or dependency I’m missing, etc. I miss being able to just click on an .exe and that’s it.
