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Have you ever been disappointed with Linux? (libretechni.ca)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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Personally I haven't. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it's whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.

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[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's usually quality of life misses. An example: if I mount a network drive (mine auto-mounts upon login) and then that NAS goes down for whatever reason, if I open Dolphin it'll hang trying to connect to the offline network drive and never timeout. I can restart my NAS and then as soon as it's online again, my file manager will open 😅.

I'd have to manually unmount in terminal if that NAS became non-functional. Windows just times out and marks it as offline so File Explorer still works.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I've been using AutoFS and that's no longer an issue for me. How did you mount the NAS?

[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

SMB mount via fstab, hadn't heard of AutoFS. That's usually how it goes, I learn about something better after going through the pain of doing it an inferior way.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Ah yes I did it like that before. At home it's not a problem since my NAS is always connected but taking my laptop outside would be problematic unless I had the VPN enabled.

[–] kewjo@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

i think if you have it in fstab that forces kio to wait. instead of adding to fstab i just right click and add smb to places in dolphin for a direct link. dolphin doesn't hang on load anymore, auto mounts and even sends wol, might comment it out from fstab or set noauto to see if it speeds up dolphin

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

kde got over a mil to fix network drive issues and I have no doubt they'll be best in class next year