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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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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Trying to find the path of a mounted USB stick is painful as well. Is it at /mnt, /media or /run? Who the fuck knows.

At least with windows you just have drive letters

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh god this one, I never understood why mounting drives in Linux needs to be so convoluted. It's the whole reason my NAS is running on LTSC. Adding drives to my NAS under windows is literally plug and play where as with linux theres always some bullshit.

I have neither the time nor the inclination these days to troubleshoot that bullshit.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we're comparing Linux to Windows, then it should be noted there's Plasma and Gnome that will auto-detect any USB stick in existence and show you its path in the GUI.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, totally, but when using the terminal it's a pain

[–] Kimplul@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Does lsblk not work? I checked on my machine and it shows the correct path, assuming you know your stick is sdb or whatever. Something like lsblk -o MODEL,MOUNTPOINT is (generally) a bit more clear but admittedly getting into the 'pain' territory.