The End of Windows

Re:The End of Windows by Someone1234 on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:12AM (#16734592)

If I still have to open the terminal and edit text files in /etc for essential things like sound, WiFi, accelerated graphics, and so on then it hasn't really evolved in the right ways.

Linux on the desktop has always been a niche experience for a niche audience. ChromeOS and Android (both based on Linux) are mainstream desktop experiences, as are MacOS, iOS, and Windows.

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Re:The End of Windows by komali2 on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:16AM (#16734621)

That hasn't been the case for a while for me, even for graphics stuff - do you use a desktop setup with gnome or similar? I'm pretty noobish at this stuff but gnome, unity, etc should be coming with gui settings baked in.

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Re:The End of Windows by segmondy on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:13AM (#16734604)

If you still have to, except you don't have to.

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Re:The End of Windows by Someone1234 on Monday April 02, 2018 @11:09AM (#16735121)

Except I have in the last month, I was following this article:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProced...

Someone should tell Ubuntu that this is no longer needed.

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Re:The End of Windows by m45t3r on Monday April 02, 2018 @05:58PM (#16739777)

This is for when you're having issues, quite rare nowadays. Similar things happen on Windows, for example fiddling with drivers to get sound to work or stop popping.

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Re:The End of Windows by krylon on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:59AM (#16734990)

Well, you can do that if you want to, but on the more desktop-friendly distros, I have not had to edit a configuration file in years.

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