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LoafyLemon t1_j9yx37y wrote

Reply to comment by papetrov99 in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098

That's old news, I moved to Linux 7 months ago or so, and everything works without tinkering, including all games I play.

What's important is the distribution you pick, because despite what some say, it does matter a lot.

I'm running Pop!_OS, which is the 'no bullshit' option.

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papetrov99 t1_ja6vrrk wrote

I ended up going with this. Trying it out on my older laptop, thinkpad t460. To be fair already 1.: Couldn't play mkv file with the default video player, had to get VLC and 2.: When you minimize/maximize tabs it does a weird flicker in the top left corner which is a known bug related to some gnome animation.

This is kind of just funny to me, but really these imperfections are very obvious when you install any kind of linux, some don't have basic video codecs installed. I can get around and fix all of the issues, it's just not a good user experience.

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LoafyLemon t1_ja812rl wrote

  1. Proprietary codecs suck, there's nothing they can do because it would be illegal to ship those with a system without paying them a ransom for every installation. The solution is to stop using them and move on to open formats like AV1.

  2. I've never had that bug, but you might be happy to hear Pop OS will be moving away from gnome, they're working on COSMIC, it should give them more finer control over the distribution.

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papetrov99 t1_ja8q0uk wrote

Yea heard they're working on that in Rust, pretty nice hopefully it comes out soon.

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papetrov99 t1_ja8u3di wrote

Also the package manager GUI lags if you search, kinda amateur. Also this is gnome again but why is there a calendar that I can sync google calendar into if I then cannot click on any days to view my events/appointments... Also if they have to subsidize codecs why not just install VLC as default which can play anything.

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