highduc @ highduc @lemmy.ml

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I get your frustration but I think that's just the price you pay for doing "IT" things (meaning here more in-depth stuff than just using a browser)in the current IT landscape. I think there isn't an easy fix, not even money.

The snap rant - I'd say that's Ubuntu's fault for pushing for it. I'm not a fan and I'd advise against using snaps, but if you decide to use them and then complain that you don't like how it works ...who's fault is that? (other than arguably Ubuntu's, who have paid developers to work on that crap btw).

Virtualbox - same as above. That's not Linux doing stupid things, that's Vmware (now owned by Oracle, damn) and if you decide to use it you can blame the folks who develop it for not doing a more user-friendly job, or you can chose to work around the issues you encounter, or you can use something else. Personally I used libvirt + virt-manager in the past and while virt-manager doesn't look nice and modern it worked well for me.

For the sleep/wake up issues it might be firmware, it might be your desktop environment, it might be some software you're using, it might be several things. I'd start looking into the output of sudo systemd-inhibit --list to see what's keeping your system from sleeping if you still have issues.

If you ever decide to try Arch I'd recommend doing so for a bit and see how it feels. Their wiki is the best I've seen and really helpful with a lot of topics from gaming to setting up a web server and many others.

I personally use Firefox not Chrome, Arch not Ubuntu, native packages not snap, libvirt not virtualbox, KDE Plasma not Gnome. I try to use more "libre" stuff. Ofc you're free to use whatever you want, that's the beauty of it, but if something doesn't work the way you want, you can try something else.

And because your use cases are more complex (like webserial, virtual machines, etc) I think you'd encounter issues in other operating systems too?! I think people underestimate how hard it is to do stuff in Windows for example, because they never try doing more complex stuff in it - getting an obscure error that could mean anything. Googling for answers to only find stupid crap like "I rebooted and it works" - which ofc it never does.

tl;dr: There is no Linux "product" there are a bunch of 'em glued together. Try different tools maybe they work more to your liking.

There is a tl;dr right at the bottom of the post

Kept checking youtube waiting for them to post it and wound up finding it on Lemmy. Ty :)

I have a small Ugreen I bought a few years ago and while I'm not using it anymore it did its job well while I needed it and afaik it still works well. Initially I got it for the detachable usb-c cable.

And I think it's authentically Chinese, doesn't pretend to be a German company or anything like that.

Would be great if it would actually be usable.

From what I've read from people owning it it's unfit for any purpose at the moment and very few people actually use it as their main phone.

Pine64's model of "we build the hardware, the community builds the software" doesn't seem to be working very well unfortunately.

I wanted to get a Fairphone 4 until I saw I saw it didn't have a headphone jack. Made me think all their "sustainable" mottos are just marketing.

Purism with their Librem phones took people's money and didn't send them the product so I didn't want to chance it or support a company that does that.

So in the end I got a Pixel 7 instead and put Graphene OS on it. Not particularly happy but didn't seem like there was a better choice.

Recently found out from a Louis Rossman video that the lead dev of Graphene has some mental health issues that don't make him a very trustworthy individual. Supposedly he stepped down but he's probably still contributing code.

Tl;dr: phones = bad

If that does happen I'm curious to see how good Ricardo will be now.

Good read. I also liked his recent interview with Adam Conover, came at just the right time with this wave of everything getting shitty.

I'm also in the "let them burn" camp, hoping that's gonna bring more people to open source platforms like lemmy/mastodon/etc.

Yeah it happens to me too sometimes. Probably more common than we realize.

I think that's a bad argument. If you go out of your way to install and configure all of these, then yes, they exist and you can do that - but that doesn't automatically mean they're bad.

But in most operating systems they're not installed, not configured, and you'll never have to deal with any of that.

I actually use systemd-boot because it's very easy to install and configure and systemd-resolved, but for a lot of those I haven't even heard about.

And furthermore even if more of them (I think it's highly unlikely that any OS would use all of those services by default) were preinstalled, they'd only be an issue if they'd cause trouble. If your system is running systemd-whatever and it works well then what's the issue? The name itself?

This is the kind of post we need around here :)

I suggest you do poop, your plan atm sounds cartoonishly stupid and likely to blow up in your face.

Do keep us posted though!

It'd be great for that to take off but it just seems so extremely unlikely :)