linuxmemes

I will make sure to post truly funny and intellectual content next time like "windows bad haha"

it's a funny reference to more broken times

i sometimes struggled with alsa and pulseaudio, especially in more niche or diy distros, and at the time it was frustrating as hell, but looking back it's a nostalgic memory.

Because it's unfortunately still true. I have a video-card that I can't upgrade because it nvidia drivers keep breaking my display. I've had to swap distros because some don't work well with my audio-card, or my wifi-card. I was able to get them working eventually, but pretending that it wasn't a pain in the ass would be a lie.

This attitude of "everything works fine, and if it doesn't that means you are doing it wrong" is why people don't like trying Linux. We have to be realistic about the experience. It's massively better than it used to be, but pretending its flawless is just dishonest.

I ran into an issue last night with HDMI failing to be assigned as the audio output. a reboot fixed it but idk what the problem really is it how to prevent it.

been full time on Debian 15 years, and full time on Linux 21 years.

geez you sound insufferable, i wonder why so many people have negative opinions of the linux community…

also damn I don’t envy anyone who has to use a screen reader to read your first paragraph

That's not true.

I've also had a lot of success on most hardware, but the worst device I ever touched was a 2016 Macbook (one of the last with normal ports) and that thing was a total mess.

Arch: Video, no sound. Debian: Sound, no video. Ubuntu: Everything works, reboot, nothing works.

Probably heavily related to hardware, but still, very inconsistent. I was never able to find the actual issue after weeks.

The final somewhat working configuration was Debian+Liquorix for the video firmware.

So no, it's not guaranteed.

If you're using supported hardware, sure.

My wifi keeps freaking out, my 2.5G nic simply doesn't work, my Bluetooth acts up constantly, the razor kernel module made my whole setup unstable and I just wanted to change the stupid RGB lights, HDMI support is unpredictable, Nvidia drivers are a shitshow.

I still don't miss Windows, but Windows 11 is stable on the same hardware.

Memes are not necessarily meant to be funny. They're meant to represent a common experience within a group. The horrid failure rate of PulseAudio just a couple years ago fits that definition perfectly, and in fact it's why I gave up on Ubuntu 14.04 in 2015.

ˡᴵⁿᵁˣ ᴵˢ ᵒᴺˡʸ ᶠᴼᴿ ᴴᵃᶜᴷᵉᴿˢ ᵒᴿ ⁿᵉᴿᴰˢ. ʸᵒᵘ ᴺᴱᵉᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵀᵉʳᵐᴵᴺᴬˡ ᶠᴼᴿ ᴱⱽᴱᴿʸᵗᴴⁱⁿᵍ. ᴸⁱᴺᵘˣ ᴴᵃˢ ᴺᵒ ᴬᵘᴰᴵᵒ ˢᵘᴾᵖᴼᴿᵀ / ᵃᵘᵈᴵᴼ ⁱˢ ᵇʳᵒᴷᵉᴺ. ʸᴼᵁ ᶜᴬᴺ'ᵗ ᴾᴸᵃʸ ᵍᴬᴹᴱˢ ᴼᴺ ˡᴵⁿᵁˣ. ᴸᴵᴺᵁˣ ᴰᴼᵉˢᴺ’ᵀ ˢᵘᴾᵖᴼʳᵀ ᴴᵃᴿᴰʷᵃʳᵉ. ʸᴼᵁ ᴴᵃⱽᴱ ᵗᴼ ᶜᴼᴹᵖᴵᴸᴱ ᴱᵛᵉᴿʸᵗᴴᴵᴺᴳ ᶠᴿᵒᴹ ˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ.

Edit: if you complain about your software or hardware not working shutdown your devices and go take a walk in nature and reflect about the fact that you are too stupid to write your own working code for software or build your own chips from a pile of sand

You lasted exactly one paragraph before contradicting yourself.

Please, shut down your device and just take a walk dude

It will stay true as most computers are optimized to windoze-only. Just some of us are lucky because our computer wasn't optimized to it.

Beginner distros are even worse, once you're past the absolute beginner phase and start to notice what I call "the fuck you features" you start to hate linux as much as windows, for example, sound always starts with a fade in so notification sounds get muted, that's because there's an energy savings option active by default, you'll find dozens of forum posts telling you how to fix it except, fuck you, none of them work anymore because that configuration file is not there anymore and you must create it and figure out what to write in it.

Another example, celluloid opens subtitles by default, you don't want that? Fuck you, create a configuration file somewhere and good luck finding out what to write in it. You end up installing vlc.

Things like these has been my experience with linux for the last 15 years.

Unfortunately it is still true to some extent. i do have audio issue (crackling music, no sound, wrong audio preset on my headphones and i cant change it to the right one) all of them are fixed by restarting my PC

I updated my laptop from Mint 21.3? to 22 and lost all sound. It's when Mint switched from I think Pulse to Pipewire. The update left behind a random config file that stopped my sound device from being set up, and the only place I could find a fix was on an obscure forum post.

Hibernation and hybrid sleep are both supported by my laptop, and can be set up to work on Mint with a lot of configuration through the terminal. When I reboot though, they stop working again. The related options disappear from the power settings, but work from the terminal.

Pretending that Linux doesn't have issues is an outright lie at this point

It was true at the time the song was recorded though.