Solid rant. The amazing thing is how quickly people learn to live with whatever they currently have. It explains iPhone users.

EndeavourOS is the way to go, btw.

Most of what you said went a bit over my head. I have the Topping E2x2 audio interface. I did some testing of each setting combination on Windows. And it just works. I’m definitely using settings the hardware supports. Linux just doesn’t seem mature in this area.

No. This is a multi purpose pc. Gaming, audio, work, VM. On windows this is fine but not on Linux. Not sure an RT kernel is good for my use case.

Using pipewire. It depends on which settings I use for the sample and bit rate. On windows I can use almost any combination, and baring a few older games, there is no stuttering or breakup. In Linux I find only specific sample and bit rates work well. The others cause stuttering and audio drops.

Also changing sample and bit rates is not straightforward. I’ve found utils that help but the only reliable way I’ve found is to edit the configs then restart the service.

I agree. Most of my graphics issues were related to my DE choice. KDE plasma has been by far the best in this regard.

Hmm, if not straight Arch then EndeavourOS or CachyOS first.

That’s the intended goal of big tech AI orgs. AI is a weapon and is sold to governments using fear as the key motivator. It is the same as any other weapons manufacturer. The military budget has few constraints and corporations know this. AI won’t fail. Governments will make sure of it because they will be dependent on it, just likes all other weapons.

Audio. As much as windows has issues, it is not hard to get good latency. The same process is it less accessible to most users. A reliable gui is needed.

VST’s and their associated DRM is a blocker but not the fault of Linux. The same is true for hardware that can only be properly configured with a windows or Mac only tool. These problems need a critical mass of users, and a legal requirement to support Linux for mainstream products. (EU, I’m talking to you)

I’ve been running EndeavourOS on my server for about 3 years, and on desktop for about 18 months. My DE is KDE plasma which is perfect for me, being similar to windows but customisable.

You can deploy the CachyOS performance tweaks and kernel to EndeavourOS if you fancy best of both. (See the CachyOS install guide).

Personally I prefer the barebones of EOS to something that has already made software choices for me.

I always thought they should have a 15 second gif for each DE showing off the general form factor. That looks and feel is all most people care about.

Until Adobe patch’s the installer and licencing server to prevent it from working at all. (Too cynical?)

It’s a wildcard, but T seems obvious to me.

Thx. That is more helpful.

I don’t actually think it was nonsense, it just sounded like it.

Wayland development continues to push forward. Currently it works better than X11 in 95% or setups, and it won’t be long before it covers 99.5%. X11 is legacy now, and Wayland works perfectly for the vast majority of users and is only improving. The time to move on is coming.

For legacy use cases there will be an alternative X11 DE you can use for a long time yet.

I have the same multiple monitor issue. I have an ultrawide on display port, and a smaller monitor on hdmi. Boot messages default to the ultrawide but the login prompt also defaults to the secondary display. Minor thing I know, but irritating.

It is rare that I fail to get the gist of what is being said in these technical explanations, but this one has me actually wondering about the gist of the gist. Some of it made me feel like it was made up nonsense.

I’m having trouble parsing the title. Help me, pls.

Happy to test if you do.

Started 20 years ago. It made sense from the first time I had to buy a pc and deal with windows. Previously had been Mac person, and just hated Windows. Linux felt different and had potential for flexibility and options.

Did Linux week every year since then. Shame it took 18 years for linux to get to where I could game on it and not feel like I was having a 3rd rate experience compared to windows, performance wise.

Been running EndeavourOS (aka Arch btw) with KDE plasma for 2 years. Still have windows on a smaller disk but Linux is my primary OS.

Happy to share my build guide (just a text file and some backed up configs).