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Re:Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites by tracker1 on Monday August 24, 2015 @10:36AM (#10110059)
It's funny, but my gripes with linux aren't the UI.. I use an Ubuntu Server VM via SSH most of the day... my desktop is windows, my laptop is OSX, and the computer I use the most not working is my Ubuntu HTPC (Unity)... I actually like Windows 7's UI the most.. though 10 is tolerable after disabling all the damned search options.

That said, every single time I've tried to use a Linux OS either as my primary laptop or desktop OS I experience significant problems that no end user should have to deal with... the last time, I added a drive after install... the system updates included an update to grub.. next reboot, wouldn't even load... after 3 days of setting up my environment, applications, vmware, etc, etc... I can't even fucking boot.

The time before that I couldn't get both monitors to work... twice before that I picked recommended hardware for linux support (straight intel graphics) and hit weird regressions when the OS updated on one, and the other just some wierd suspend issues..

I agree "works fine" for the desktop is a huge stretch... it does appear to mostly work okay for my HTPC, except when it resumes from suspend there's no sound (fortunately it's got an ssd and reboots fast), or that if I happen to turn it on too early before the TV is on, the display doesn't come on the screen (guessing it picks the DV port instead of the HDMI)...

either way.. still stuff that's worked in windows/osx forever, without issue.

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Re:Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites by wrenky on Monday August 24, 2015 @10:59AM (#10110275)
> hat said, every single time I've tried to use a Linux OS either as my primary laptop or desktop OS I experience significant problems that no end user should have to deal with... the last time, I added a drive after install... the system updates included an update to grub.. next reboot, wouldn't even load... after 3 days of setting up my environment, applications, vmware, etc, etc... I can't even fucking boot.

was this in the 90s, early 2000s? Linux hasn't had those issues in a decade. Suspend/Resume is horrible on Windows of me as well, my linux systems do so flawlessly, but there is a good 10% chance of blue screen when undocking my corporate windows laptop out of suspend.

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Re:Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites by tracker1 on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @08:29AM (#10122428)
The HTPC suspend issue is with current Ubuntu 15.04, Actually, I'm in pre-release channel because of another audio bug that rolled into regular updates for my chipset, I had no audio at all after said update. I had hoped the fixes would also fix the suspend issue with audio disappearing, but it hasn't.

The issue with booting was mid-late 2013, I haven't tried running Linux as the main OS on my desktop since, Windows 10 has me considering it.

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