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Re:System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery ... by gcbirzan on Saturday July 09, 2022 @12:04PM (#32036381)
And there is literally no way to do it on Mac. Or, you know, disable scroll acceleration, an abomination that needs to die.
Re:System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery ... by addicted on Saturday July 09, 2022 @12:26PM (#32036627)
This is quite typical of the kinds of things you need to “dip into the CLI” for Linux that people complain about.

Things that other OS’es usually don’t even allow.

Edit: Another issue with Linux configs is that since nearly every setting can be changed through the CLI, and it’s usually a single liner at that, most online resources tend to provide the single liner that one can use to copy/paste into the CLI to achieve what they want, because the alternative is providing like 10 screenshots for 15 steps for someone to try and painstakingly replicate with their mouse or trackpad.

The most common example of this is that pretty much every application will give its installation instructions as:

sudo apt install thunderbird (On gnome).

When you can just as well go to the software center, search thunderbird, and hit install. Or go to thunderbird.com, download the package and double click/install.

However, the CLI method is clearly far superior and easier, yet it leads to complaints about having to “dip into the CLI”.