For casual browsing I've given up Reddit. Like a lot of people I used Reddit on mobile 99% of the time so when the apps died I just uninstalled. The only thing I use Reddit for now is when I'm struggling with a research or technical problem. Honestly don't miss the front page at all.
Hard work is often missed but rarely thanked. My heading was rather flapant. Hopefully my comment replies show I have more appropriation for Devs than the title suggests.
I get it. I'm not a pro developer but I code quite regularly. I realise all the support you need to give for anything you develop, the time and effort involved. And frontends often take more time build than the thing it presents. My point is, there are basic gaps that need should have been addressed by now. the KDE and gnome devs could focus on those items rather than the next impressive theming function.
If I had the time I could probably learn the required languager and code my own solution. But that is never the point. You don't need to gate keep an OS that is founded on the ideals of openness. The point of Linux is it can be what ever OS you need. The work done to make desktop enviroments more accessible and function is amazing, and if I'm able to help I will. For example, once I have the solution for my audio issue I'll be posting my fix in a few places. I've done this before for Windows and Linux stuff, and believe in sharing the knowledge. I won't give up until the answer is found, even if the answer is "it won't work". Pushing users away because they don't want to spend days trying to figure out something as basic as audio is not really understnading the point of my post, or helpful to anyone really. Feel free to keep your knowledge to yourself.
common as in Switches are binary, so thats easy. Error checked fields are also easy to work with. Drop down lists, radio buttons, all pretty standard stuff. Yes there is some variety but there is little doubt that switching something will do what the label says, where as a command line and conf file require a lot more work, espeically if you want to make frequent changes to those settings.
I understand the people give their time to the Linux project without charge, and it is a little cheeky to make demands, but there are some obvious basic gaps that need addressing. Rather than focusing on fancy themes, maybe some more configuration management stuff would be useful?
thanks. I actuially have Pamac installed, and it works really well. I haven't tried using Yay though and pacman has done the job so far. Is there a good reason to deploy yay as well?
My title was intentionally flipant. But I thin the automatic assumption that command line is always fine for linux desktop needs to evolve. Not to say it hasn't, but there are definitely some basic gaps.
Yeah Arch is not worse than the other distros. That is just a reputation it has. Other past than the initial install and into KDE I don't feel like it is any more command line driving than Mint or Fedora.
I agree there are times a GUI is just not needed, like for one off configurations that are straight forward and never touched again. I'm not a professional developer but I do write some code, and often the bit that does the work is a few lines and the inferface is a many more lines, just error correction / prevention adds more lines of code.
I have spent the last few days tackling an audio issue that is looking more like it will need me to start building my own kernel. I always do my own investigations and it is that process, the many years of taking the "lets try linux" trip, to realise the basics are what make the OS accessible. Things are so much better now than even 2 years ago, but Linux (all distros) is still missing some basics. Rather than relying on 3rd parties to make GUI's the original developers should take the responsibility to provide a solid user interface.
This year I've tried the other usual suspects (Mint, Fedora, etc) and thought I'd give Arch a go, just to see how much more work it is. So far, other than the initial installer, it hasn't been much more work than the other distros, and it has actually been smoother. The AUR is very helpful, and Pamac helps a lot as well. The "just works" experience has been better on Arch than the other distros to be honest. I had the same hardware issues with Audio and dual displays on Minit and Fedora.
Linux has come such a long way, the requirement to use the comand line is much reduced, but there are still some obvious basic gaps that need fixing. Obviosuly this is just my oppinion, and I keep trying so I'm obviosuly not turned off completely.
PowerUPP hasn't appeared in my discovery so far. I'll check that one out.
CoreCtrl is the one I'm planning to test so I can't comment yet.
Hopefully they also offer more basic feature controls as well.
PAVUcontrol
Doesn't have a an option to set any of the sample or bit rates. At least not in the version I have.
The difference is in windows for weird setups you have to run obscure possible virus runme.msi from 2015 where linux you have to put in an obscure command that you aren’t sure what it does from a forum post from 2015. The only one that has mostly nailed that down is OSX.
I agree with you here. OSX is annoyingly good.
For casual browsing I've given up Reddit. Like a lot of people I used Reddit on mobile 99% of the time so when the apps died I just uninstalled. The only thing I use Reddit for now is when I'm struggling with a research or technical problem. Honestly don't miss the front page at all.