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Tried it again a few months ago when HDR support first dropped in KDE. It didn't work at all. Everything was desaturated and dim. Literally the opposite of what HDR is supposed to do.
I'm giving it another year before I try Linux again. Hopefully the bugs are sorted by then.
I stopped using Linux on my desktop PC in 2007. Last year I switched back, and wow everything is so much smoother now. Video, sound, webcam, networking, all worked perfectly out-of-the-box. No more messing with fglrx for hours to get ATI/AMD graphics working. No more figuring out ALSA vs OSS vs PulseAudio vs whatever else. I don't know what the sound subsystem is even called now, because I don't need to know. It just works.
KDE is beautiful now, too. I tried a few desktop environments and liked KDE the best.
Great time to switch. I've been using Linux on servers since 1999, but it's totally viable for desktops these days too.
The average 'advanced' window user: CLI is scary!
Also the average 'advanced' windows user: if you open regedit and add this DWORD entry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Microsoft/application/windows/something, then you can stop Microsoft from screwing you, but it'll revert after each update so you gotta keep fixing it
This is what made me realize maybe I should try my luck with the command line. I haven't had to touch any advanced stuff to do non advanced stuff in a while. Windows has conditioned me badly. For example when my laptop had no mic during a meeting I instantly assumed it was drivers fucking up again ala windows, so I started finding new drivers. After reverting the change I discovered it was just firefox that had disabled the mic. Smoothest "y no audio" bugfix I've ever had compared to "ready for the home user" windows discord, zoom, teams, skype constantly shitting the bed randomly.
Yeah. I've been spoiled by Linux for awhile, but sometime in the last few years, I realized I don't reach for the terminal on Linux anymore to configure anything (other than crazy bullshit I compiled from source code... I am still me, after all.)
And Windows is still the usual level of pain, not amazing and not the worst... Well, I guess maybe now it really might be the worst, just because everything modern has gotten better.
The fact that I have to do combersome, confusing registry edits for simple changes on Windows sucks shit. I don't think I've ever once intuitively known where to change something, or the way to do it once.
But it's normalized for the people who have to go find the one fine site out of dozens that will steal your info because they're afraid of learning something new in an era of ensuring no one learns new useful skills so it can be sold back to you.
Let's be real. Most people can't really use Windows, either. Anything harder than clicking the Chrome icon is beyond most users.