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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by Aeolun on Monday October 24, 2022 @01:57PM (#33320060)
What kind of common use cases are you thinking about? It’s been _years_ since I had any common-use issues with linux.

Bluetooth, email, music, writing, video chat. Everything is just plug and play these days.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by helmholtz on Monday October 24, 2022 @06:13PM (#33323336)
Video editing, photo editing, connecting a Focusrite to the machine. Connecting a midi keyboard. Connecting a remote printer. Connecting a Bluetooth headset. Getting usable battery life. Installing software that allegedly supports Linux. All this and more are issues I've had with my Linux installations. Yeah I could have used a different distro, and yes many of these u could solve. But it sure was a pain learning it all.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by diego_sandoval on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:49AM (#33327073)
Trying to disable mouse acceleration for touchpads when running Ubuntu 20.04 (and derivatives) made me lose more than 6 hours of my life.

The culprit was libinput, which, for some reason, ignored the "flat" acceleration profile for touchpads. It was eventually fixed, but the fix didn't hit an LTS version of Ubuntu until this year.

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