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Re:Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete by asyx on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:39AM (#41828927)
It’s not like those are better. I switched back from Fedora KDE a month or so ago. If it isn’t mouse scroll wheel it’s fractional scaling in X11 applications. And if it isn’t that then it is broken hibernation. And if it isn’t that it is broken fan control. And if it isn’t that then it’s device driver support. And if it isn’t that then it is that one application that supports Linux but actually doesn’t well enough to be usable.

There is always something messed up. At least with Windows, people have spent time building scripts to remove the garbage.

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Re:Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete by consteval on Monday October 14, 2024 @05:06PM (#41842007)
> fractional scaling in X11 applications

Very real, no solution either. The only solution is Wayland.

> broken hibernation

This is broken on Windows, too. Basically, suspend to RAM just doesn't work properly/reliably on a bunch of laptop manufacturers firmware.

> device driver support

Pretty much not a problem on x86 and commodity hardware. It becomes a problem on ARM because ARM is a hot mess, but then again that's the case on Windows, too. Some laptops have strange hardware, unfortunately. This is becoming less of a problem as time goes on.

> supports Linux but actually doesn’t well enough

Getting better with containerization deployments like Flatpak.

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