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Written by Kroc Camen on 2025-01-23 at 09:30

Welcome one and all to the big #Linux BS thread! I get that it's necessary to switch to Linux, I'm imploring you to do so, and I don't want to discourage anyone but I need to document the ways in which Linux is just not ready for 600 Million more users and I don't think it's any technical limitation so much as a lack of design self-awareness.

Case study 1: A basic 1GHz Intel netbook with 4GB RAM. I installed #Manjaro. Keys, touchpad, wifi and screen brightness work, very impressive. I also really like that Manjaro is not dumbed down and I was able to get plenty of information about the hardware.

But hibernate doesn't work. Clicking the button does nothing -- already a design flaw in that it can't even tell me why it isn't working. A quick Internet search lets me know that systemctl hibernate is the console command for invoking hibernate and should give me an error message. The swapfile size is not big enough, just 512MB for a machine with 4GB of RAM.

Can I resize the swapfile, using dd and a number of other systemctl commands? Yes! Should I have to? No! If I enable hibernation and it can't hibernate because the swapfile is too small then it should TELL ME and provide a GUI to fix it, and that's without considering that it should have set the swapfile size big enough during installation anyway!

But still, that's not enough. Despite having a hibernate feature, the installation didn't modify initramfs & GRUB to handle hibernation! Can I do this manually? Yes! Do / Should I have / want to? Absolutely not!

Now downloading #Kubuntu in hopes that its own features actually work out-of-the-box :|

[#]KDE #LinuxIsNotReadyYet

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Written by rastilin on 2025-01-23 at 09:47

@Kroc

You might have better luck with a commercially supported distro, possibly ZorinOS at https://zorin.com/os/. There's a free version as well, but there's a company behind it so they should be better in terms of having quality assurance.

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Written by Kroc Camen on 2025-01-23 at 10:04

@rastilin I’m trying to avoid GNOME as much as possible or I would have gone with Zorin from the off!

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