Apple has had great trackpads for years and years.

Yet somehow every other laptop has at best something just kind of decent. You’d think they could catch up by now…

Aur can be a bit… Wonky in my experience, sometimes stuff just fails to install or work after.

Windows sandbox is easy.

No, but you can use Ironfox or another Android Firefox fork and have working sync.

A gaming focused distro will do everything else well too, so thats probably why.

If Linux is going to be usable by the average person on windows it needs to do something better than booting to a CLI and making the user figure out how to manually downgrade a package.

Sorta, but you run one command to update everything at once, and even though the system knows what GPU you have it still seems to update the driver to one thats not compatible, instead of holding that update back.

Also if it didn’t warn the user when updating, the user had no idea they were pulling any trigger, especially when Linux falls back to CLI after this instead of just falling back to a basic driver.

Surely there’s a way to keep the older driver on Linux, its absurdly easy on Windows.

Windows doesnt drop to CLI and break if the graphics driver is missing. But also GPU driver updates are not forced on you just by updating the system.

It makes me wonder why the package still auto updates if it detects you’re using the driver that would be removed, surely it could do some checks first?

Would be vastly preferable to it just breaking the system.

Windows doesn’t force update your driver and remove support though, and even if it did it won’t drop you to some CLI, it will still work.

As I remember no one could tell a different in some testing done vs FLAC and 320kbps Vorbis, so I think its plenty for an archive.

Spotify uses I think 192 or 320kbps Vorbis which is quite good and still has small sizes.

Gotcha, that does make it significantly more difficult to block outgoing connections from some new executable, as most are likely to use port 443 like everything else does.

I’ll have to research some more, I have Fedora on my laptop and it would be nice to have a comparable firewall.

Does the firewall on Linux work like Windows where you allow/block by process or executable name? Because that will stop malware or apps connecting to places you don’t like.

Thats bizarre, you’d think it would set up a persistent saves directory and link them to it.

The performance issues are a major one for me, nothing worse than firing up a new game and getting 40fps with tons of stuttering along the way.

I feel like most newer games also have trouble with low/medium settings not really being that much better for performance, so there’s no fix for it.

I remember older games where low was like staring at a character made from 12 polygons and everything looked awful, but it would run on just about anything.

Zen is what I use, there’s also Waterfox.

Yeah stuff like that, but also the locally synced copy I would not trust no matter what as really any sync software can suddenly delete or corrupt files. Best to have at least 2 actual backups in place that are versioned and done daily or every few hours.

Absolutely, then people go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud, and think that it’s somehow fine.