Linux desktop appreciation post - eviltoast

I recently had to use windows for stuff and after a year of using Linux, it made me realise how janky windows is in comparison. Even on a top spec pc unminimized (or resized) windows flash white before their contents appear. Super-d to minimize/maximize doesn’t bring all windows back up or in the same order. And these are greatly amplified when the computer isn’t that powerful, so much so that you can see individual regions of some programs render one by one. In addition, moving the kde connect window sometimes made the screen stutter and flicker (???) and at some point my mouse stopped working (touchpad was fine), I tried reinstalling drivers and stuff but ultimately I had to reboot for it to work again.

Brings back memories of my laptop loudly booting up in the middle of the night for no apparent cause or reason and mouse cursor going invisible upon random boots that made me save a file in the middle of the desktop about how to fix it.

It’s incredible how Linux is both free and a more stable experience, even as a nvidia+wayland user.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 months ago

    It sounds like you need to jump over to !linuxquestions@lemmy.zip (disclaimer: I’m the mod)

    I’m going to try to respond to each of your bullet points. (I don’t know everthing)

    • This should theoretically be easy to setup. I found a old post for your reference. https://superuser.com/questions/271740/how-to-set-up-vpn-connection-with-p12-and-ovpn-file You should be able to import keys via your desktop settings but if you can’t do it via the command line
    • I don’t know why USB transfers wouldn’t work. I need more information.
    • For your sleep in display issues I need logs. I can’t help you without more information. If your on Nvidia it is probably Nvidia
    • Chrome shouldn’t be updating. You should use your package manager (either flatpak or native)
    • luves2spooge@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 months ago

      Thanks for trying to help. I have already managed to import the ovpn certs using the CLI. It’s just the Gnome import wizard that was not working. I suspect one of my monitors is incorrectly reporting its native resolution and refresh rate as its an issue that occurrs with both nvidia and AMD gpus. I’m on vacation now but I’ll visit linuxquestions when I’m back because it’s a really annoying issue lol.