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wesammikhailyesterday at 11:59 PM3 repliesview on HN

I deploy all my code on linux and have been thinking about switching from windows to linux for my daily driver. But even I dread that. It´s as if linux has tried as hard as possible to make every single little thing as complicated as possible.

imho, user experience is nowhere to be found in the linux landscape. There is very little focus on that. People will tell you try this or that distro. But once you run into a simple problem, it´s often a rabbit hole of a gazilling cli commands to fix it. In the mean time you´re praying to god to not brick something that used to work before.


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conceptiontoday at 12:05 AM

Lucky now you can just ask an LLM to diagnose and offer ways to fix it. Takes 99% of the trouble away.

nixosbestostoday at 12:26 AM

If I could wave a wand and ban a single class of comments on HN, it would be this. Rambling, non-specific handwaving useless text.

> user experience is nowhere to be found in the linux landscape.

It's ignorant, and its insulting, and it's stupid. You can read one or two KDE blog posts, look at the roadmap for Cosmic, look at the attention Valve has put into Linux and know that sentence is just rude. It's just so frustrating.

> People will tell you try this or that distro.

Dumbasses on reddit will. No one that has a single clue encourages distro-hopping.

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