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purplemurmel @ purplemurmel @discuss.tchncs.de
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  • I think it is negotiable. I have been running my own email server (iRedMail) on a Hetzner VM since 2019.

    • Is the Windows Subsystem for Linux worth it?

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  • I’ve had a pretty poor experience with it myself

    Could you elaborate?

    • I finally switched back to Linux as my daily driver after a couple of years of being on nothing but Windows.

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  • I believe you didn’t have a Linux problem, you had a problem with hardware manufacturers being fussy about enabling development of proper support for their hardware.

    Which is a Linux problem at the end of the day, unfortunately.

    My current laptop is also "Linux certified", whatever that means. I cannot say that linux does not work on my laptop because that is not true. It works. Bluetooth works, touchpad works, like 95% of the time. In that 95% I love linux. However, when the remaining 5% hits, that is freaking annoying. And you can bet the bluetooth issue hits in the middle of an online meeting, and not when you just listen to music. 4K monitors are around since ~2013, still, no user friendly solution for fractional scaling, and the list goes on.

    My main problem is that, this 95% was always 95% for me. I have been trying to switch to linux since 2011. I spend 3-15 month on linux and switch back to windows for a year or two. As I see, linux desktop just runs after the desktop market and it is 2-10 years behind. I know that is mostly because of the HW vendors. But knowing this does not make me feel better when my productivity decreases due to these issues.

    Why not look into hardware that is actually readily compatible with Linux?

    Honestly? Because I don't believe that 95% is significantly higher on those laptops and I just don't have ~1500EUR for an experiment like this.

    Windows + WSL2 works great. I use a Windows distro, if you will. All the issues I had with my native linux install are gone, and I can still use linux comfortably while working. This is the reality from my point of view.

    • I finally switched back to Linux as my daily driver after a couple of years of being on nothing but Windows.

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  • I just switched back to windows, after using Kubuntu for the past 13 month.

    I'm a software dev, I work on a Dell precision 5560 and just got tired of the worst touchpad experience ever, the endless Bluetooth issues, the fact that sleep mode basically does not exist anymore and a bunch of other small things.

    On windows I do almost everything in WSL so I still work on Linux, but this way I get a much better desktop experience on my laptop.