I found the complete opposite about using Linux on the desktop for work.
- Native MS Outlook and Teams apps are not available on Linux so everything has to be done thru the web browser since MS deprecated the Linux desktop client. Teams crashes in Chrome very often and running it in Edge means every link that is clicked opens in Edge. I do not want to use Edge.
- Font scaling issues at 4K, while I have tweaked a lot of apps to support this it is a constant battle to keep the fonts looking crisp thru updates and some apps just don't support great font scaling.
- Last week I had to reboot my desktop because a single press of CRTL+V was pasting things twice (this was also happening on right click > paste so it wasn't my keyboard)
- Random freezes when I close the laptop lid, which has been solved by some BIOS updates but it still happens.. just not as frequently.
- Bluetooth issues, switching between multiple devices isn't flawless.
- Package manager sprawl, homebrew maybe slow but it usually has the latest version of CLI apps I need to use. Whereas on Linux apt packages are usually way out of date, flatpak won't do CLI apps, asdf doesn't have enough of the tools I need, aqua is very inconvenient, nix takes a long time to configure. AUR is probably the best but you must run Arch. I run Fedora with Linuxbrew and don't need to spend effort on figuring how to install some random CLI binary I need.
Sorry if this sounded a little incoherent. There's more nuances I could go into but overall I do not want to spend days/weeks configuring my desktop OS. There's something to be said about MacOS having very opinionated decisions but for the most part everything just works for my needs and I don't have to struggle reading thru the Arch wiki or blog posts trying to get bluetooth devices to work or whatever is fighting me.
I really like seeing System76 building laptops that work smoothly with PopOS but even that there's struggles with certain hardware or software. It feels like using a Linux desktop is a constant game of cat and mouse on debugging odd issues.
Hmm you are right on that. Sometimes certain things are inconvenient on the Linux desktop world too. And also, some hardware combination just don't work good.
That's a name I haven't heard in a long time! PunBB was the cleanest looking forum software I remember hacking at. I integrated into a bittorrent tracker I ran long ago.
While they are open-source projects, I bet their software is still driven by customer feedback. I wouldn't put it past them to prioritize paying customer requests which takes time away from implementing features, doing bugfixes or code review.
I don't think it's fair to say that paying customer feedback is prioritised at the expense of the open-source community.
The thing with the core Grafana product being open source is that there's not that much dissimilarity between paying/enterprise Grafana users, and open-source users. Feedback from one set will almost always work in favor for the other.
If an open source community is sufficient, it should implement pull requests itself while sufficient paid developers continue to contribute after earning enough to provide for themselves by working on customer feedback.
I have a Dutch physical OPNsense (business license) box with 10 GbE ports. IIRC, it's the userland version. To be honest, I prefer most things to live outside of the kernel than use it as a kitchen sink dumping ground for "but but but it's faster!".
Another annoying bit on the client side, the Android app appears to choose audio tracks at random even though I have English preferred. I have all of a show ripped the same way with dual audio tracks and jellyfin can't be consistent. Plex never had this issue with this show.
To be fair, it already seems easily pirated. DRM is useless, if content is able to be viewed on some personal device it can be ripped and shared. I'd be curious how much effort/money companies dump into adding DRM measures, it seems like a lost cause. Maybe it just makes the execs sleep better at night.
Netflix's DRM is sufficiently good that the Reddit Piracy subreddit has spent the last three months moaning that they have no access to 4K Netflix rips, at least for weeks or months after the content comes out.
Netflix's DRM and key management systems do what they care about pretty well at this point, which is protect the initial airing of popular shows.
I found the S5 (not max) a good robot for the price. I was able to find one on Amazon Warehouse Deals for $250 2 years ago. It's been running Valetudo since the day I recieved it. I don't have many complaints other than I wish I had the Dreame Tech Z10 Pro instead but given the Z10 Pro is 3x the price I paid for the S5 I'd still say I am happy.
- Native MS Outlook and Teams apps are not available on Linux so everything has to be done thru the web browser since MS deprecated the Linux desktop client. Teams crashes in Chrome very often and running it in Edge means every link that is clicked opens in Edge. I do not want to use Edge.
- Font scaling issues at 4K, while I have tweaked a lot of apps to support this it is a constant battle to keep the fonts looking crisp thru updates and some apps just don't support great font scaling.
- Last week I had to reboot my desktop because a single press of CRTL+V was pasting things twice (this was also happening on right click > paste so it wasn't my keyboard)
- Random freezes when I close the laptop lid, which has been solved by some BIOS updates but it still happens.. just not as frequently.
- Bluetooth issues, switching between multiple devices isn't flawless.
- Package manager sprawl, homebrew maybe slow but it usually has the latest version of CLI apps I need to use. Whereas on Linux apt packages are usually way out of date, flatpak won't do CLI apps, asdf doesn't have enough of the tools I need, aqua is very inconvenient, nix takes a long time to configure. AUR is probably the best but you must run Arch. I run Fedora with Linuxbrew and don't need to spend effort on figuring how to install some random CLI binary I need.
Sorry if this sounded a little incoherent. There's more nuances I could go into but overall I do not want to spend days/weeks configuring my desktop OS. There's something to be said about MacOS having very opinionated decisions but for the most part everything just works for my needs and I don't have to struggle reading thru the Arch wiki or blog posts trying to get bluetooth devices to work or whatever is fighting me.
I really like seeing System76 building laptops that work smoothly with PopOS but even that there's struggles with certain hardware or software. It feels like using a Linux desktop is a constant game of cat and mouse on debugging odd issues.