DarkThoughts

Because Arch users would’ve shunned me for asking for support when I don’t use literal Arch.

I’m specifically talking about the EOS forum, which was just dicks throwing insults towards me having a support request and the admins consequently closing the thread and hiding it, telling me to make a new one if I still need support.

Can’t recommend EOS. Awful community when something breaks. Definitely not something for people coming from Windows.

Ubuntu’s packet manager Apt was already kind of awful in many ways, especially with its PPA hell. But them adding Snap packages somehow managed to make them reach even new levels of awful.

A simple “this story is bullshit” is all that’s needed

That’s what this is? I don’t know what else you see or how your “this story is bullshit” wouldn’t amplify it either then.

Fact checking and clarifying fake news is not amplifying it, especially when it is already this widely spread.

I switched some years ago away from 7 when 10 came out and the “free” upgrade nuked itself and its partition into an unrecoverable state. Windows and Linux can both be their own hassle in different ways, but at least with Linux I got control back over my operating system, and that felt so damn good.

Noooooooooooooooooo! D: I guess no more news articles for me now.

And people thought Arch users were stupidly entitled and toxic. My favorite part right now is him trying to repeatedly berate me for not being able to read out the correct profile folder within Firefox (which shows the default .mozilla/firefox/), even though I already mentioned that it does not show the actually correct one (.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/.mozilla/firefox/). I guess he has “skill issues”.

Thanks for further proving my point and good luck with that attitude.

If many things go from 1-2 steps to 20+ steps that I also have to read up on, but aren’t even documented anywhere which means I also have to be some sort of all knowing mystic (meaning they might as well be not possible to do), then yes, that’s very much unintuitive.

Maybe you “forward-thinking generation of software engineers that make elegant, reliable, declarative systems but are totally not entitled shitheads that insult everyone who clearly struggle with such elegancy” should actually listen to the issues that your potential user base is facing instead of dismissing them. Otherwise it will be hard to sell that “future” to them.

If you make your distros even more unintuitive and a hassle than before, then no, it certainly won’t be the future. You people need a reality check.

Same reply that I wrote to the other entitled asshole: https://fedia.io/m/linux@programming.dev/t/1045299/Manjaro-Immutable-Out-Now-for-Community-Testing/comment/6595387#entry-comment-6595387

I could probably summarize your experience as “skill issue”.

Blaming users for a lack of proper UX is always the best excuse.

This is simply false as pointed out by others already.

Yet the only information I could find by other users of the distro. I even checked the official documentation, which contained 0 information on Firefox profiles. The FF profile manager only led to temporary folders and the absolute path led to an inexistent / invalid one (the one you’d expect them to go normally). So yes, I guess my skills are low, but so is the possibility for me to even learn anything when the only barely scrapped info I could find is wrong.

I wouldn’t be surprised if you just searched this through your favorite search engine and settled with whatever random solution you came across instead of relying upon RPM Fusion’s documentation on the matter.

No, that and the rpm fusion install page is quite literally exactly what I used. Then no applications would launch, no UI functions would work and after I hard reset the PC it wouldn’t show me anything but a broken welcome page, which, when closed, left me with a blank black screen and my mouse cursor. I’m not sure what else you would expect me to do when following seemingly official command guidelines. But I guess it’s still my fault after all.

While this could be true, I wonder what prevented you from sticking with any one of them.

Let’s see…

• Manjaro: Lots of criticism from others, ironically ran 2 years without major issues. But I wanted to switch to btrfs and EOS was hyped up to be a better version of a simple Arch installation.
• EndeavourOS: An update nuked the bootloader after a few months. Could not figure out how to fix it since “guides” were using non encrypted devices as an example and were expecting user knowledge already. Tried asking for help in the official forums and got gaslit and insulted by users instead to the point where the mods had to close and hide the thread, suggesting I make a new one if I still need help. I decided it was better to leave that toxic cesspool & distro.
• OpenSUSE: Installation failed to create partitions. When I eventually got past the issue and got it installed I could not switch resolution down to 1080p because it would just turn my screen into a stretched pancake mode. Could neither find a solution or any information as to why it cannot do something as basic as this, so moved on.
• Nobara: Nuked its Plasma setup, leaving you with a blank screen and the broken crash reporter. Could not find any information anywhere on it so I tried using Timeshift via rescue terminal and it would just error out because it failed to mount boot partitions or whatever. Used a live usb environment and ran GUI Timeshift, mounted the snapshot partition and restored the last snapshot that way, seemingly without an error. But on a reboot it then became unbootable with even more errors about the partitions. Again, no matching threads I could find that would be able to help me.
• Bazzite we already covered came after.
• Fedora: Since many people said most of my issues come from using a fork of a private guy I was expecting major polish. But as already covered they don’t have an easy way to enable the most basic multimedia playback and their official how-to broke the system.

It’s definitely a lot harder if you’ve got major skill issues.

Especially since absolutely no one is willing to help and rather throws insults and personal attacks around when facing people who struggle with all the major bugs.

I couldn’t find jack shit, other than posts where people were saying that it sits within the immutable part of the distro and the profile manager just opened some temporary profile folder, with the permanent path being invalid / nonexistent. If that information is wrong then they should work at least on their documentation, which I checked for FF profiles and could find 0 entries.

It kinda feels like it goes against what Manjaro was supposed to be though. A safer version of Arch but with about the same features, including its massive software pool to pull from - and that exactly is what would fall flat in this case, since you’d need very selectively maintained “packages”, which would be extremely limited in comparison to someone with access to regular repos and the AUR.

I don’t understand the hype of immutables, or usability even. I tried Bazzite today after Nobara nuked itself, and I couldn’t even paste my old Firefox profile since the actual folder apparently sits within the immutable folder structure. Maybe that’s fine for grandmas who just want to casually browse the internet but this seems extremely counter intuitive and an incredible hassle. I didn’t even have time to reach the software limitations with how fast I tried the next distro. Still hopping though, because apparently Fedora just nukes itself when you try to install codecs and I think I have about every major distro tested by now. Linux is cursed.

Yeah, but no other distro caused my screen to go into stretched pancake mode when I selected 1080p.

PopOS uses Gnome, which I cannot stand and have had only issues with as well. I was contemplating of going back to Mint, which I used a long long time ago, but Cinnamon is very limited compared to KDE and I hate apt and the whole ppa hell, which I would not look forward to getting back to.

Too bad OpenSUSE could not even change my resolution down to 1080p without bugging out.