It for sure applies to voters, but not to the politicians present at climate conventions as this cartoon portrays. And in the end it's them that have to broker a solution, not individual voters.
They'll of course use such language to their voters since whatever gains votes is fair game, but i very much doubt they themselves are this stupid. Behind the scenes it's just finding ways to screw with the others.
It was already fixed in their nightly builds, and it's an extremely mature video & audio player, i get most open source projects can't pounce on any tiny issue. But like the most mature open source player should be able to resolve a serious playback issue in their stable build in less than a month. Either by applying the fix that fixed it in their nightly builds, or by reverting to a previous version of whatever is causing it that had it working well in earlier versions. I get the open source mantra of "you're not the client", but VLC is good & big enough to manage this kind of stuff a lot better.
your docker issue with a downloaded deb package from the net … wtf - first of all why not use something from the repositories … getting out of just downloading something from someone and installing it should be prio 1 when changing to linux … but how hard could it be to do a sudo apt install ./filename.deb
Oh man, i love all the comments saying this, and now seeing this pop up: [https://startrek.website/post/5789855](https://startrek.website/post/5789855)
Steam saying "if you want to install steam on ubuntu, just download our .deb package".
Yeah, obviously people moving to Linux will figure out they don't need to download .deb packages if THE MAIN THING THAT USED TO KEEP THEM ON WINDOWS, NOW FINALLY AVAILABLE ON LINUX, AND MADE BY A HUGE TECH COMPANY USES A .DEB PACKAGE.
And yeah, i can find command line ways of installing a package. But that pretty much defeats the entire point of a linux desktop you know, the entire thing i'm complaining here about. If your answer to me complaining that the linux desktop being a dud is "yeah, most things don't work, just use the command line", you're completely confirming me in the message of my post.
I figured out all the issues myself, as repeated here, i'm a professional developer with some headless raspberry pi's & synologies i know how to manage.
This is a rant on the abysmal state of the linux desktop (stable OS just losing random crucial features, relying on a vulnurable protocol for basic functionality, supporting nice to have features such as HDR & variable refreshrate (which are both decades old) being an absolute nightmare).
Hence the title being a complaint about the linux desktop being an absolute nightmare and total crap, and not "help me, i'm stuck". I was not stuck, i can figure out the workarounds, but i was appalled at what i saw, i expected issues & struggling, but this was way beyond & below what i could even imagine.
Also evidenced by the dozen of distros i've had recommended so far, and conflicting advice (i absolutely do, and do not need wayland for variable refreshrates, depending on who you ask).
This is just a nightmare ecosystem to participate in, and that's what i wanted to get across, and i think i succeeded pretty well :).
Yeah, someone else totally didn't link the ticket (open since 2019) here about whatever ubuntu uses for its SMB share discovery defaulting to SMB1 and giving the exact error message i got when trying to see the SMB shares list of the server it discovered.
So yeah, not all of ubuntu defaults to it, but discovery sure does, and it's embarrasing. I made this issue knowing full well that the things i complained about are 100% accurate.
You can continue to live in your imaginary world where Ubuntu is better, but it simply isn't.
Worked perfectly for me 20 years ago. What was the error message you got, again?
failed to retrieve share list from server invalid argument
You said later that when you did it via the command line, it didn’t work anyway. Which was more or less what I told you might well happen because downloading .debs from the internet is a bad idea.
Are you serious? I just googled "is installing deb packages on ubuntu good", from ubuntu.com ( https://ubuntu.com/about/packages#:~:text=%27Deb%27%20packages%20are%20the%20heart,with%20rich%20and%20dynamic%20dependencies. ) :
'Deb' packages are the heart of Ubuntu The 'deb' package format comes from the Debian Linux distribution and is widely considered the best package format for system-level libraries and applications with rich and dynamic dependencies.
If i have to describe gaslighting, i would give this as an example. The websites of linux application offer deb packages mentioning explictly they are for ubuntu. The ubuntu site itself says "Deb packages are the heart of ubuntu". I try to install one, the linux community: "are you stupid? What gave you the idea that downloading a deb package that said it was for ubuntu and trying to install it was a good idea?"
DK, man, I’m a little reluctant to continue this because I keep trying to tell you about how you should use Linux and you keep seeming to think that I’m trying to trick you or something
I'm trying to install a package the way the developer says i should, and the distro says is the very heart of the distro. And you find it strange that your replies come across as blaming the user and a bit ridiculous?
All this then says to me is that i should find myself a linux teacher to teach me the arcane linux knowledge, since the most direct documentation of app developers & distro developers is the exact opposite of what i should do?
I'm sorry, but to me it just sounds like you're making excuses for linux since you like it. This comes more across as the infamous "you're holding it wrong" iphone issue. I'm sure there are many ways to do things in linux, but you can't blame me for being skeptical when you say this so very well documented & recommended way of doing things by both the app developer & distro creators is not the way to do things...
If "cool stuff on windows" is going to your file manager and browsing to a network share, and that working, and not having the stable version of the OS suddenly lose its installer for a specific kind of files.... Then yeah, i should probably stick to windows. I can kind of get the refreshrate thingy, although it's still pretty pathetic after all these years. And reading up on HDR (which is 20 years old by now), feels equally pathetic. Yes, i'd like to be able to use my linux desktop to be able to play video files as intended: with the monitor/projector switching to the correct refresh rate (so you don't see a slight stutter whenever the camera pans), and with HDR if applicable.
I made this thread about 5 hours after i installed ubuntu, you guys seem to be avoiding actually knowledging that these are some huge glaring issues that completely ruin the user experience, and be like "but look at the cool stuff linux can do". I know the cool stuff linux can do, i've got a dozen docker containers running on my synology doing home automation/downloading/servers of all kinds/... I just hoped the linux desktop experience would be... at least tolerable and not 5 hours of frustrated googling trying 'advanced things' like... browsing to a network share, installing a package i get when i click on ubuntu/debian on the site of a linux application (and i didn't post the whole ordeal, then installed a tool to install the package, that failed due to some dependency, then installed it via the command line, that then also gave all kinds of errors, which the instructions found perfectly normal), or playing a video file the way it's supposed to be played.
If you really think those 3 above usecases are "cool windows stuff" and "it's unrealistic to expect these from linux", can you please say that explicitly? Browsing to a network share, installing a .deb package supported on a debian based OS, and playing a HDR video file in HDR and at the correct framerate with your display are "unrealistic expectations". The last one you might be able to make a tiny bit of a case for, but the other 2... for real??
What steps did you do that led you to conclude that SMB v1 was the issue?
I typed in the exact error message i got in google, and found the issue is that it tries to use SMBv1 to get the list of shares, and if it's disabled on the server, you're out of luck.
Was the video quality noticeably off in any way
It was running 24fps video on 30hz refreshrate. It's subtle for sure, but easily noticable. It means every 5th frame last twice as long as the others. If the camera pans, you just see it isn't perfectly smooth. It isn't a complete disaster, but is it really that hard of a feature? I can kind of get the "you don't need it" in some cases, but i've spend all this time & money on a nice projector & sound system to watch movies. I don't want to see some slight stutter whenever a camera pans since my OS can't match my refresh rate to the video it's playing. Even though i can manuallly switch to that exact refresh rate if i wanted to.
seem to be under the impression that Ubuntu is supposed to install .debs you downloaded when you click on them
Dude, it is. Google it yourself. Pretty much every single link you find when googling why clicking on deb files gives an error that the application for such files is not founds shows you how to assign the default installer in ubuntu to those files so it works. You're really gaslighting me here. this is expected behavior, everything you can google indicates it is expected behavior, i gave you the link about someone helping with alternatives now they suddenly broke it, but that link also says they expect it to soon be fixed again in ubuntu. But now i complain about it being broken and you're all like "that's totally not expected behavior".
Look, i get it, you like linux and are happy with it. But you can't just wipe any negative experience under the carpet with gaslighting like this. That's just ridiculous. It is expected behavior for a distro like ubuntu, and pretending it is not is just ridiculous.
It's not that i don't believe you, but i just typed out the nice surprises i encountered while just trying some (imo basic) things on a fresh install.
the SMB thing, seriously... this is a vulnurability from 2017, and ubuntu not only defaults to this protocol, but doesn't even have a way to disable it??
the refresh rate thingy, maybe a bit specific, but in windows it's just a setting you enable in any app, and it works.
and the installer being "oops, we forgot to replace it"... if the ubuntu version was marked as "this is bleeding edge unstable", i would have just taken the LTS version. but from all i can tell 23.10 is just the latest stable, that seems to be anything but stable?
This is not about "being open to it", this is just 5 hours of googling, trying things, realizing that things that i expected to be pretty basic are just working sooo badly. and i know switching from windows would take some effort, but hours of struggling to have to end up working around a vulnurable protocol that i can't disable, having to struggle with just getting some package installed (defeating the entire point of why these packages would be easier), and for now giving up on a nice playback feature.
And of course in this thread i've already had at least 3 different distros recommended with noone really knowing if the kodi usecase is supported by them because even people who use linux for everything have no way of figuring out which distro, if any, supports refreshrate switching...
you can be all "you have to be open to it", as i've got multiple headless linux machines and even got some complicated stuff running on it requiring me to do some more advanced stuff via ssh and actually understanding some parts of linux. It's not that i don't want to learn, i wouldn't even know how. Read the replies yourself, people are already "do you really need refresh rate switching?" (aka, we also don't know how to figure out how to get this feature that just works in other OS'es to work in any linux distro).
I'm not expecting everything to just work, and don't mind googling. but these were literally the 3 first things i tried on this linux, and each of them was hell... and googling for solutions was also hell with a lot of outdated advice, and regarding the refreshrates... not really much advice at all, even though htpc on linux is relatively popular & this is something that can be a known benefit to the playback quality.
And of course i'm getting downvoted for this post because posting the reality of trying desktop linux (as an experienced IT guy) is something that's rather not seen?...
It is? I watched the first season, and the ending was so bad it just completely lost me. I'm not expecting much from most star trek story lines, but if your entire season is 1 big story and it's that bad...
No it isn't. It's to force you to use credit under the guise of checking how good you would be at paying back.
I'm from europe, you know how much credit i had before i got a loan for my condo? absolutely zero. All they needed to know was that i had no debts, lived well within my means, knew what i was doing, not "how many credit cards and car loans have you got running". The best possible person to loan money to is someone with 0 credit history who can prove they've got a solid source of income, and are living well within their means. Because you know, once i bought my condo, paying my loan is the exact same thing as paying my rent.
And if you wonder if i got a decent loan with such a "terrible credit history". It was a loan with variable interest rate, after the first change, my interest dropped to 0 due to the financial crisis, and it remained at 0 until i paid it of.
Anyone actually believing the american credit score system is anything else than just a way to force you to use credit while you really shouldn't, is just indoctrinated. I'm sorry, but someone perfectly paying rent, and saving up for purchasing a house without ever using any credit is the perfect person to give a good mortgage too, and the exact kind of person this system sets out to punish because they're not taking part in the American banking system the way the banks want you to.