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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by chx on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:28AM (#22875155)
Bluetooth broke on me:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=204875 2015 November

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=206032 2015 December

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210685 2016 March.

And these were times when I needed community help, most of the time I could get it working by pairing again or some such nonsense. It never worked reliably, in general.

Note I switched to Windows as my daily driver in 2018 January.

It seems sound is still a gigantic mess of PulseAudio and ALSA https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by ubercow13 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @07:27AM (#22876521)
Most of that wiki page isn't important, Pulse largely just works these days without much or any configuration
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by dman on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:13AM (#22875339)
If you things to just keep on working Arch might not be the distro for you. Have you tried something like ubuntu?
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by pjmlp on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:02AM (#22875813)
Canonical broke wlan and OpenGL for many of us when they decided to replace fully working closed source drivers, with work in progress open source replacements.

So even Ubuntu isn't necessarily a guarantee of stability.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by dman on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:12PM (#22884702)
Sigh - I hear you.
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by chx on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @12:10PM (#22879457)
Yes. Yes, I did. At least with Arch I could keep on working because only one of BT / printer / scanner broke on update, most of the production bits kept working. When I ran Ubuntu the system shattered every six months so badly I couldn't work for 2-3 days.
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by tsar9x on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:45AM (#22875490)
I have fairly linux friendly laptop (Thinkpad T480) with Fedora, and GPU driver was broken for whole 5.3 kernel tree...
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by heeen on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:48AM (#22875744)
I have a T480 as well and both the nvidia (closed source) and intel drivers work for me on Kubuntu.
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