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    [–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    Such a shame that Wayland did away with accessibility APIs which makes switching a hard stop for those of us with disabilities that rely on software that works with these APIs.

    They work with X11, which had consistent APIs, but Wayland leaves it up to each distro to implement their own APIs, if they do at all, fragmenting the ecosystem.

    Hell, even mouse acceleration curves are skuffed now, it really sucks.

    [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 points 1 hour ago

    I wasnt aware of this. Do they plan on adding some sort of API implementation like they are with other features or do you know?

    [–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Linux mint is my distro for now and a good while! I cannot complain (except for a few very minor things).

    [–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

    Printers are a pain in the ass. But who still uses printers?

    [–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

    Quite a lot of us

    [–] YeahToast@aussie.zone 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    My HP printer was plug and play for printing over the network, quite delightful really.

    [–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

    Ah yes, liji printer best for cups!

    [–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

    I do... Kids in school occasionally need stuff printed. I have a network attached laser printer, it was super easy, barely an inconvenience to set up in Linux. It was fairly easy to setup in windows too, but every so often it stops working randomly for a few minutes, then as soon as I start trying to figure out why, it randomly starts working again... No such trouble from Linux.

    [–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

    For anyone who's coming from. Windows world desktop environment DE is just look and feel of is you can change it or i install multiple of those. Most famous are GNOME KDE, etc. Distro is something that someone packaged together DE and a tool (pakage? Managet) to gether there are essentially 3****** distros Debian :, rhel., and arch Ubuntu, Linux mint, popOS all Re derived from Debian while fedoro centos were all derived from RHEL bit f*cl Redhat and canonical. And msnjaro arach are all forks of arch and there are freebsd and susu which corpos like becausr of not licensing

    If you arrnew and using old hardware then choose Debian or a year alternatives if you're using bleeding edge hardware (newes than 1 year( then choose Fedora

    [–] arc99@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Unless you're installing some weird corporate build of Windows you'll have a very simple installation process. Linux has caught up a lot to that experience.

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    linux has had easy gui installers since the 90s. what do you mean linux has caught up a lot?

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