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  • pelya@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlDebian Trixie
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    1 month ago

    The update from Debian 12 took me four hours. It works. Plasma did not load so I had to clear old configuration files and configure it anew. Plasma on Wayland is actually usable now, and looks stable so far. And I’ve got new wallpapers I’ve so desired.

    And now it’s time to forget about OS updates for another two years.



  • pelya@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldAn enigma.
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    1 month ago

    Arch is hard to install, hard to configure, and hard to use, because it requires cryptic commandline knowledge at every step.

    People who use Arch generally know very well what they are doing, so their system works with no issues, which they never forget to mention in every conversation.

    Ubuntu is a novice-friendly Linux distribution, but since the majority of it’s users are novices or Windows 11 refugees, they generate a lot of complaints on forums.



  • If you ever need to disable SELinux, your software distribution is trash, or you bought some unsupported piece of hardware with crap Linux drivers. Or you are writing kernel drivers and it’s your test machine.

    What the user really needs is to launch an app in a secure sandbox with two mouse clicks, not an easier way to edit SELinux rules. Linux software distributions focus too much on technology, but don’t provide the finished user-facing solution with this technology, that’s the problem #4.



  • Nope, plasma-session crash means all your windows are goooone.

    If it’s only plasma-desktop or kwin crash, you can generally restart it from a terminal, and you need one terminal window open at all times to do that, since you won’t be able to launch a new window with no desktop, or you try to launch it from the text console, which works badly because it won’t see your plasma-session environment.