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  • For me, it’s hardware support, i.e my laptops fingerprint sensor just isn’t supported, for the speakers to work I had to find a script that remapped the speakers, multiple desktops (especially with different resolutions) are a pain.

    But the killer at the moment is a good solution to manage and post process my raw photos. Went from Lightroom to On1 Photo RAW…unfortunately DarkTable is still not there yet. Also still missing the affinity suite on Linux :-(

    Also, sadly these tools also don’t run well in a VM












  • Yeah and there is a big issue. I would place myself as quite tech savvy, but last time i looked for a distrobI got overwhelmed… Good thing: there are questionnaires that lead you to a good enough suggestion… Back then it proposed mint

    But then the next question: which desktopp environment?

    I installed on my huawei matebook and it worked okay-ish, but it had one dealbreaker: even with a lot of tinkering there was no way I got standby or hibernation to work. Which is a must for me…

    So I removed mint and installed kubuntu… Now standby and even hibernate work (kind of) But it totally craps up when I try to use my external monitor together with the internal screen… Even a lot of terminal tinkering later I don’t have it working… Oh and the speakers still crap now

    There is a lit of information around how to maybe get stuff working, but a lot of it requires a lot of upfront knowledge:

    • a lot of questions are answered with “yeah, enter that in your terminal” without any explanation what exactly it does (which is bad in two ways in my opinion)
    • a lot of official documentation doesn’t explain very well what the configs do and what syntax etc. is expected
    • there is often a lot of elitism around that really pushes away newcomers

    EmI do love tinkering, but sometimes it’s really frustrating even for me. No way I could my GF to try that out…