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If you do NOT currently use a desktop #Linux OS but are curious (or hesitant) about it: what questions or concerns do you have?
@killyourfm I'm not daily driving one at the moment but have been for a few years.
Main concerns:
- You never know if the hardware is going to be well supported
- Battery life is much shorter on Linux
- Hardware acceleration support is uncertain. Scrolling a Firefox window can end up being very choppy on Linux and smooth on macOS and Windows
- If you need specialized apps, chances are that vendors don't support Linux.
- Most OSS maintainers struggle, so apps sustainability is uncertain
@thibaultamartin And those are all valid in my eyes. Real issues that desktop Linux needs to tackle before it hopes to get significantly more market share.
Especially the hardware support -- and finding an updated, reliable source of truth for compatibility.
@system76 may want a word about hardware support
@trelane @thibaultamartin @killyourfm heyo! Let us know if you have any questions!
@thibaultamartin @killyourfm choppy scrolling on Linux is the biggest bullshit I've ever heard.
"Overall, the power use between Windows 10 and the four tested Linux distributions was basically on-par with each other. "
Sorry, its just not true. Its fanboy nonsense.
@thibaultamartin @killyourfm The battery life concern is contrary to my own experience. I find battery life is much better on Linux, but it needs to be configured correctly:
- A battery with dedicated graphics and internal graphics needs to be set to use the iGPU only.
- Power management needs to be controlled through something like TLP (https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html) or KDE Plasma Power Profiles (https://conf.kde.org/event/1/contributions/16/attachments/14/15/davidredondo-ppip.pdf)
But I'll give it to Windows, it does it better out of the box.