What makes you not want to use Linux anymore and maybe move back to Windows, MacOS, or TempleOS?
What makes you not want to use Linux anymore and maybe move back to Windows, MacOS, or TempleOS?
What makes you not want to use Linux anymore and maybe move back to Windows, MacOS, or TempleOS?
The longer you use linux excluslively, you don't think about windows or mac. You think about fedora or suse, kde or gnome, yay or apt, distrobox or toolbox.
IKR the longer I use Linux the more I think about TempleOS
Lmao
They don’t give us free games with the OS anymore but TempleOS has HOLY games
That is...true, actually. The longer I use Linux, the more I'm like "....but what if, man, what if I ditch Arch for Fedora or NixOS or give Pop_OS! another chance (and i very well might when Cosmic launches)?" And sometimes I do...and then always come crawling back.
Going back to Windows full time ain't even crossed my mind for a hot minute. Partly because i have a spare driver running it for emergencies (that i barely use anyways, only because Windows literally runs one important app that I need, that I can't run on Linux), and partly because going back means being stuck with Windows 11 again, and I really dislike Windows 11's design choices, personally (and Microsoft in general, but i digress).
paru
At a certain point I just feel like Linux isn't designed to let me talk to God. All that bloat like networking and hardware drivers get in the way. I need to get away from the CIA mind control and return to something pure and simple. And when I feel that way, Based Terry is always there for me.
RIP Terry Davis, Temple OS forever
Nothing TBH. I find Windows too stressful, Macs are too boring, and I can't use TempleOS because I don't have schizophrenia.
Damnit. You managed to give me a laughing coughing fit
The fucking GTK file chooser. It's like all application developers have made a pact with each other to never use a consistent UX, with the exception of having to press ctrl-L to edit the path textbox. It's painful. And as much as I like XDP, support for it is spotty at best, and sometimes downright broken.
I mean, who the FUCK puts the filesystem root in a submenu? Or sorts files and directories together? I just want to talk and explain why they're beyond salvation.
I searched around for a bit, and apparently one could preload a library to replace the file dialog functions with an own, custom one, and I'd root for rofi (with a dmenu theme, kinda).
GTK my behated 🥲
I feel like this post is guerilla marketing for "TempleOS", which I've never heard of before and will absolutely not be looking up after this.
It's not. TempleOS is a famous from scratch OS created by a guy with serious mental illness. It's a sad story, but the capability of that guy was incredible. He's gone now :(
TempleOS (wikipedia) is a meme os. It's supposed to be god's os and was singlehandedly coded by the late Terry Davis. So this post isn't really marketing, and the reference is just supposed to be humorous.
For real though definitely do not access this site right bellow here and install this OS
▶️▶️▶️❗❗ https://templeos.org ❗❗◀️◀️◀️
It 100% is guerilla marketing for Temple OS.
I love this reaction and how dramatically out of sync it is with what TempleOS actually is. I know it is innocent and accidental so this is in no way a shot at the poster. It is just a hilariously wrong take.
I have looked it up and to include it in that list is just downright ludicrous. Let me give you some quotes from the wiki
“The system was characterized as a modern x86-64 Commodore 64, using an interface similar to a mixture of DOS and Turbo C.”
“TempleOS (formerly J Operating System, LoseThos, and SparrowOS) is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system (OS) designed to be the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible. It was created by American programmer Terry A. Davis, who developed it alone over the course of a decade after a series of manic episodes that he later described as a revelation from God.”
“The system was characterized as a modern x86-64 Commodore 64, using an interface similar to a mixture of DOS and Turbo C. Davis proclaimed that the system's features, such as its 640x480 resolution, 16-color display, and single-voice audio, were designed according to explicit instructions from God.”
What the actual fuck?!?
Yep. Dude was definitely nutso, but he was an incredible programmer. Shame really.
God wants you to use it.
Definitely
I've no plans to go back to my abusive ex.
one of these things is not like the others
Yeah, MacOS wasn't originally intended for x86 CPUs.
It is surprisingly hard to run Android apps on Linux, despite Android itself being Linux based. Being able to run Android apps quickly and natively would be a game changer for Linux, resolving long standing issues of app availability. Hell you could even then use Android version of Microsoft Office etc. This should be a higher priority for all distros.
Until then, there are apps that are simply unavailable on Linux, even with Wine support, that necessitate using Windows or macOS.
Is Anbox no longer a thing? It runs Android apps in a container.
Or is it more the issue with the apps not running "natively"?
Waydroid nowadays. Works waaay better
Anbox is dead
That rings a bell.. could one use BlissOS or Android-x86 in a vm? I can't remember. It's another thing I've been meaning to look into.
Waydroid worked fine when I tried it.
Nah, I'm 100% done with Windows. Even if good ol' Bill comes up with something that forces me to use Windows for whatever reason, Linux will always be in my routine thanks to single board computers.
a gun to the head
That's the reason I use TempleOS.
Why the hell would anyone run TempleOS?
Find vulnerabilities that could grant access to heaven
You don't choose to run it, God appears to you in a vision and commands it and then you have no choice.
Because it is quite possibly the last of its kind - a desktop OS that was built from scratch by one person with one (strange) vision. Everything else has a lineage to AT&T Unix or CP/M.
There are a surprising number of one person OS projects, many of them more useable than TempleOS.
What makes TempleOS unique is the fame of its creator, sadly largely as the result of his mental illness. His story also explains how it was able to become so famous while also not attracting contributors.
Other OS projects either stay obscure or, if they become widely known, they attract contributors. SerenityOS is an example of what was a single man effort but is now a reasonably large and thriving community. It has become self-sustaining enough that the founder largely focussed on the web browser these days with the OS connoting to move forward largely via the work of others ( including ports to other architectures ).
I think part of what you are saying though is that most other projects aim for POSIX compliance and that is true. There are some that don’t but, as above, that tends to keep them obscure.
What about Redox?
Because God told them to.
...to hear the words of god? Kind of a silly question
I'm approaching the point where I'm seriously considering buying a spare drive for a Windows install exclusively for VR. I'm currently dealing with 3 separate serious issues with SteamVR on Linux, one of which I sometimes can't even work around depending on how it's feeling that day. Not to mention, every new release lately seems to introduce a new problem.
I haven't had a Windows install on my system since my previous SSD died 2 or 3 years ago, but it's getting to the point where it's more trouble than it's worth.
This is why I have a windows box. I'm hoping when they finally release SteamOS 3 for PC it will have stable SteamVR support.
What headset do you have? The Index is fully supported in Linux.
It's not fully supported: https://old.reddit.com/r/ValveIndex/comments/zs8snv/vr_on_linux_makes_me_sad/
No async reprojection
No bluetooth support for base stations power management
Does not work on Wayland, at all (Nobara, KDE)
Lacks the ability for you to continue using your headset if for some reason it disconnects and reconnects (base stations will not be detected, neither will any bluetooth adapters like the SW7)
A plethora of bugs
It feels like my headset view is on a delay? Maybe due to no async reprojection
I'm quoting this guy because I think that VR straight up doesn't work on NixOS, and I haven't gotten to testing my Index on any other os yet.
https://xeiaso.net/blog/nixos-vr-hell-2021-12-02/ <- It seems this guy wasn't able to get VR working on NixOS either.
It most certainly is not. Besides the missing features mentioned by the other commenter, SteamVR 2.1 literally shipped last week with a bug that caused it to completely stop functioning on Linux. I think the hotfix version still isn't in the release channel. There's another bug still present in 2.1.7 that prevents VR games from starting. SteamVR Home doesn't work at all anymore.
2.0 had an issue where vrdashboard was using the wrong pixel format which caused the red and blue channels to be swapped (pretty sure that made it into the release channel), and there was a regression introduced in the last year (and is still yet to be fixed) that causes vrdashboard to be rendered to the controller instead of the battery indicator. Granted, these are more minor issues, but it shows the level of QA that goes into the Linux version (next to none).
The ease of buying a quality laptop without having to worry about if it will run well with my OS.
I've been using MacOS for about 8 years at work and I never really taken to it. It's fine and I can do my work but I won't use it if I hadn't to (unless the only alternative was Windows). But one thing I really like about Macs is that you can buy one and you won't have any headaches with battery life, software compatibility etc. You get decent hardware (let's ignore the whole 8GB on an M3 = 16GB on other machine debacle) and know that it will work decently well with 3rd party software/hardware and if something breaks you can just bring into an Apple store.
While there are dedicated Linux sellers (System76, Tuxedo Computeres, Starlabs), I'm hesitant to spend 2k on a computer just to find out that the build quality is subpar, the battery life sucks or that customer support will just ignore my requests (read some bad experiences on the Starlabs subreddit).
Libreoffice calc does not have the functionality Excel does.
Time for a bug report 😹
Also, have you tried gnumeric?
Gnumeric is nice and lightweight, but unlikely to satisfy people who are looking for a lot of features.
Low performance of very specific games made by small studios on middle-aged low-budget hardware makes me consider dual-booting, but then I remember that I hate closed-source, software-as-a-service, tracking-financed operating systems.
fuck windows i'm never going back to that shit
Lack of good VR support.
That's been the primary reason why I've kept a Windows dual boot, though when I tried Steam VR on Linux a month ago it mostly worked well. Still some features that are unavailable, and a couple of bugs, but usable.
Nothing.
Used to be the occasional game. Then the great Gabe was like "fuck Windows" and polished up Wine to make Proton. So...
Nothing.
Windows
It never was free.
MacOS
It's not free any more.
TempleOS
I'm not religious.
So, I guess I get to stay on Linux for longer. Well, damn!
I never "switched". I just started using the right tool for the job. I use Linux for productivity stuff. Windows for gaming and audio/music production, mostly. I don't own a Mac anymore but if I did, it'd probably be their laptops, and I'd probably take over some of the development and creative work while on the go. I'm admittedly not very "religious" when it comes to the software I use. Whatever works best for me. I'm not married to anything. Makes it easier to switch things out down the line.
Nothing. GNU/Linux is fantastic. But only that but the principles of Free Software are literally the most important thing to happen in computing. Respecting user freedom is THE most important thing an OS can do.
Only Linux offers that. In using this forever.
Only Linux offers that.
There's FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc. Which are not Linux-based.
Yes but they don't operate on those principles. They lean to just open source, not necessarily Free Software which are 2 different things.
Plus they are best unusable by the average person as they have no desktop environment.
templeos
very daily drivable!!
I did a wireshark on bloatware windows in idle and it's nope.
Nothing, but my biggest gripe is with the fucking file explorers. All of them are super inferior compared to win10 sadly
Super inferior? Windows 10 is far worse, at least windows 11 added tabs, but still is far worse than krusader or dolphin for me.
What do you like about windows version?
What are your favorite features of the Windows 10 file manager? Listing what you miss from other operating systems can help the Linux ecosystem to improve.
Oh, I found Dolphin to be a superior experience to File Explorer in Win 10. I had a particular hatred for how it would, when copying files inside a OneDrive folder and trying to instantly rename them, decide to mark the entire name field after about one second (when sync of new file is complete), causing me to erase everything I wrote in that second and having to start naming it again. In my last job, this occurred on a very frequent basis.
Very old comment, but my 2 cents: sorting by extension instead of MIME type. I don't want my jpegs, gifs and pngs mixed up when I tell PCMan, Thunar or Dolphin to sort by type. It annoys me to no end that something Windows has had since at least 95, most distros' default file explorers don't.
Man I wish my feedback would help but nobody is going to take the time to change something just because a random person complains about it on Lemmy, and neither am I gonna start a fork just for the sake of having my feature there.
Anywho, my biggest problem is with the "detailed view" mode and how it's done in ALL file explorers on Linux.
yesterday i pressed tab to autocomplete in file explorer. didnt work. then i tried to split the view so i had a way to move files without cluttering my desktop. somehow didnt work on windows. dolphin(after getting used to it coming from windows) is loads better
What exactly is better on win10?
For one, the detailed view mode. I have tried it in Dolphin and Mint's FE, don't remember if Nautilus has one, but they all try to appear like this oversimplified look. There is so much padding and dead space I want it to be compact and to the point.
Second, the side bar is just, sad.
Overall I don't like the design I guess? They all feel very... apple like? Trying to be simple but in the process becoming wayyy too simple.
You're right, but also, in my experience by the time i'm wanting those more advanced features i'd prefer to do it in the command line anyway, and so the Right Click |> Open in Terminal
solves all my issues.
I really miss interpreting the vague random words from God. Funnily enough, God via TempleOS was what told me to transition to Linux in the first place!
Amen sibling.
When my Gnome desktop works perfectly, then it gets updated and my tiling extension doesn’t work with the new version of Gnome.
Still, I ain’t going back to windows 😇
Nothing really. You pay with your time by going to Linux but the effort is getting lower both because of me getting better but mostly the experience won't compare with 20 yeara ago.since the non FOSS alternatives are getting more telemtry/call home functions rhe choice is an easy one.
Personally Linux has everything I want. Kind of per definition. If it's not available for Linux I don't care about it. I would use Windows if I had to use it for work.
So then your answer is irrelevant to the question.
I already have a 60+ hour per week job. I don't need a second one, endlessly diagnosing why the simplest of tasks are constantly breaking.
Huh, funny. I say the same about windows. Typical tasks performed at work on windows machines take hours that take me minutes. Constant random failures, etc etc.
My Linux machine at work is rock solid
Have to agree. I've been using linux for ~20 years. Tried using it multiple times as a desktop main system. Sometimes it took a few days, sometimes a few months but I always ended up back at windows (now macos). It's always something random. Something that should work, but is not. Something I could (given time) fix if I wanted to. The problem is that these tend to happen at times I want to actually use my computer and not tinker around. I have linux running on multiple servers perfectly fine, but on desktop it's a hard pass for me.
What makes you not want to use Linux anymore
Your question is malformed because even the odd troubles of Linux these days are absolutely nothing compared to the hoops I used to go through to try to get a Kernel built for my hardware 25 years ago. The occasional non-working speaker or other config issue is tiny. It doesn't even register as a problem.
Compare that to the shit show that is Windows? Fuck that OS. I try not to be very vocal when I meet people about it, but Windows just won't be a choice for me. I've turned down jobs because it would move me to a Windows house for tools. It's not worth living in that kind of hellhole UI design and wrestling with whatever enshittification MSFT has driven down your crop with the latest updates. I have a life to live and wrestling with my OS isn't what I'm going to spend it doing.
I don't know much about the current MacOS environment these days. I stopped in the OSX 10.4 days. I just don't have the hardware to consider it, so no real opinion.
So... your question is malformed because it's not even worth considering and I've got a quarter century of experience to back that one up.
Nothing. Not even Wayland and Systemd will force me off of Linux.
Right? Even the "ick" parts of linux i'd take over osx or windows
That's the neat part: you don't have to take the icky parts. Just use artix instead of arch to not use systemd
I always install Linux, 1-2 times per year but in the end I always go back to Windows. I have apps which are Windows only but whenever I want to change display scaling to 125% on Linux, is when I slowly start losing interest in it.
Wayland fractional scaling coming to a DE near you*
*Soon TM
Hardware. I do all my work on a laptop and those Apple M series processors have been amazing for performance and battery life. I’ll stick with a Mac until those Qualcomm X Elite CPUs start getting shipped in Windows laptops next year. After using this Mac for the past year, I think I prefer Windows and WSL over MacOS or Linux. This whole post only applies to laptops though; Linux on desktop and servers for life.
Raytracing performance. Though once I get my fill of cyberpunk that will fade.
The ease of being able to bork stuff when installing packages. I've borked my ability to run games through proton in some way. Between installing native and runtime Steam, and installing Waydroid and its kernel extensions I've made games not work where they are just fine on my Steam Deck. Now I gotta reinstall which kind of sucks and I don't have time for it.
As a former Arch/Debian enjoyer on all my rigs in between 2012-2017, I can say several things but they might be outdated as of now. I haven't rechecked it so here goes the list of things at that age:
There are plenty more reasons I decided to ditch Linux on my workstations and the ones above are just "honorable mentions". The biggest thing I found myself doing is tinkering with my setup much more than doing actual work.
So currently I just use a Windows laptop and WSL when I need local Linux. And of course I monitor and configure hundreds of Linux machines at work. I also have a Macbook Pro 16 mainly for iOS apps debugging and watching movies in bed.
I can say I'm currently neutral to Linux, Mac and Windows these days. They have their own use cases for me and they all allow me to reach my goals in their own way. Just getting best of each world, I guess?
I am glad that you are at peace with your workstations now, but just for updates on current situation in Linux Desktop world:
Glad that Linux have noticeable progress in its lifespan
Using Widows on my private rig now to play Fortnite with my son after ~15 years on Linux only. Also getting a MacBook Pro at work now, since I have to use Zoom and stuff like that everyday. Having no hardware acceleration on Linux is a no-go. This is not Linux' fault though. Also I'm old enough to just use the right tool for a job.
I'm too far down the rabbit hole. Everything I need works, I have built my workflow around sway.
Macs can go to hell because of their ctrl key placement alone; windows has never left hell, not much can be done about that.
I like owning my machine, even if it allows to shoot myself in the foot. With a shotgun. That is the true freedom, I suppose, and I appreciate it more than had ever expected.
I have never been as bothered by a catastrophic linux GUI crash that caused me to pull up a separate machine to walk me through recovering in the command line than I have been by Blue Screen's of Death.
And it's definitely because I know with the linux failure it was my fault, and won't happen again if i learn what caused it and change my behavior (or the system's behavior).
The same is very much not true with window's BSoD, where each time i simply lose more trust in the system.
nvidia, i swear most of the issues i experience are nvidia related in some way yeah i know using a GTX 1080 with a i7 12700k isn't like the best idea but when given the options of use said gpu and get reasonable framerates with the games im playing (but get massive headaches when something related to the proprietary linux driver eventually breaks, and it does) or use the igpu and get unplayable framerates (or low res) or unnecessarily buy a newer gpu that isn't that big of a jump in performance for me to justify the price I'm sticking with dealing with nvidia
I'm surprised that makes you want to move back to Windows instead of moving to another hardware platform. I guess it's cheaper to go back to Windows but I'd just rather support a company that supports what I do.
Same. I'm sitting here with a RTX 3080, so upgrading makes even less sense. I haven't really encountered many problems, at least on X, but Wayland support is still a mess and I'm really missing VRR, which isn't really a thing when using a multi-monitor setup on X.
Given how things have been increasingly picking up speed lately I'm hopeful that it'll only take a few more months until I can say goodbye to X and hello to Wayland and VRR.
Bluetooth on Linux fucking sucks
CAD Im not moving back, its more like moving back and forth
I wish Linux had Powertoys Fancy Zones
kde plasma has it enabled by default. just drag your windows using shift. also press super + t to enter the editing mode
Holy shit. This is what I needed. Thank you, thank you!
What's that?
The main reason I started using Linux is because I wanted to use tiling window managers. Maybe take a look at some of those. It's the same idea as Fancy zones just cranked up to 100
I have a small, high DPI, laptop screen (<14") and I haven't been able to get all or even most of the software I use to scale properly. It always looks weird and eye strain is a real worry for me, so until this problem is solved I'll be a casual
Having to fiddle with some games, I need my DLSS. I'mnin this for live tho.
The only thing that drives me nuts on a regular basis is the lack of fully functional Microsoft apps. Specifically Teams and Outlook. Unfortunately I work with Microsoft shops constantly and need those two apps. Outlook PWA has issues and freezes constantly. Teams PWA just doesn't do notifications.
That's it.
But Windows blows and Macs are just too damned expensive.
I use teams for Linux, and it has notifications. I used teams Pwa on Firefox before and that also had notifications.
I'll try Teams for Linux. Teams for Firefox does give notifications, but doesn't support background pictures or screen sharing. Well, last I checked.
In the same boat. The web versions have compatibility issues with the desktop versions when it comes to formatting. I've resorted to running Windows unlicensed in a VM.
I own a MacBook Air basically for GarageBand and other DAWs. I know how to get Jack to work. Pipewire made life easier. Still, music production on linux still sucks butts.
Too many butts for me to do anything other than other computer things and programming.
If not for internet security concerns, I would daily Windows 7 until they stopped making x86 chips altogether. Microsoft finally got everything right. Briefly.
@mindbleach @ani I feel old saying I felt the same way about windows 2000
i fucking loved windows 7 so much dude. no telemetry hoops to jump through, no always-online, no “this won’t take a minute ;)” snarky ass tongue-in-cheek loading screens. give us back functional progress bars and the Aero theme
battery life kinda sucks
Very specific - linux mint occasionally... crashes? Goes back to lock screen randomly, and closes all open programs. Very annoying to have happen when playing Beyond All Reason with 15 other people, causing the game to pause while I scramble to get back in (if possible). Haven't looked into why too much, just went back to Windows to game. Mint for casual browsing and most else.
Thats a reason against mint not Linux XD had it too, just use a modified GNOME or KDE desktop and you are fine and actually have wayland support
Fair point, Mint doesn't represent Linux as a whole. I finally settled on Mint cause I didn't like the look of stock GNOME and... I forget why I decided against using Mint's KDE. Choose Cinnamon cause I was tired after distro hopping a bunch and didn't want to tinker anymore.
I'm sure you can customize GNOME to look like KDE/Cinnamon, but if it just breaks in the next update or two I'd rather not go through the trouble.
I think I read somewhere that Mint is getting wayland support soon though? It'll be nice if that fixes the crashing bug.
Self-hatred.
Nothing. I have used Linux since it was on the alphabet floppies.
I remember downloading Slackware and copying it on floppies lol
Nothing. But I already use Windows, macOS, and Linux. Linux is my main OS, but to develop stuff for the other systems, I have to keep them around. I hate using them, but I have to.
Inconsistency of things, can't change things easily, random outdated stuff that would help if it wasn't abandoned several years ago and patched together to barely work. Gaming on Linux isn't good, so so much distros and not a lot of information besides "whatever you like". Hard to find things online because of outdated posts or just "top 10" type sites.
Windows is just plug and play, with a few apps that remove most annoyances. Nearly all games and modding of games are mostly just works.
As someone who dailied Linux for years and years and whose primary use of my PC is to game... I have to disagree with you. The only title in my entire Steam library that doesn't work is Halo: Infinite, and that only because I'm using an Intel ARC card which has a known issue running Infinite on Linux due to an incompatibility between a specific set of DirectX 12 calls and Vulkan. If I had chosen to upgrade to a new AMD card instead, I'd still be running Linux. But I wanted to support Intel, so here we are. When I'm done playing around on Infinite, I'll switch back and never think about Windows again.
Hell, some of my library runs BETTER on Linux than on Windows with the ARC card. The only game that runs better on Windows is Halo: Infinite, and that's only because it literally doesn't run at all on Linux. 😂
Wish it was like that for me. I duel boot Linux and I often times get to frustrated at basic things with gaming in Linux, like installing mods through vortex and Windows only mod managers in Linux I just switch to Linux and not much trouble.
Note I'm not a seasoned Linux user I know the basics but when I have to go through multiple configs and websites just to have one program work properly, it kinda just ruins it
I tried to daily Linux on my laptop but gave up after about 6 months. The two major issues for me were the speakers amp and the fingerprint reader not being supported. The speakers wasn't that big of a problem because audio still worked so I could use headphones or Bluetooth. The fingerprint reader not working grew to be a major annoyance though, it's so much more convenient to use than typing out a password.
What on earth is a TempleOS?
I own an IT company. We are some sort of base metal partners with MS. I remember a huge box of "Select" CDs turning up back in the day. Nowadays we get demands for customers. ie we should be making more cash for MS. Its all one way - take, take. take.
I'm not a massive fan of owning a company and working for another one. So I don't. MS are receding into the rear view window.
Minor compatibilities aside, Nothing that Windows itself has to offer, maybe some wallpapers I can just get online anyways lol