I’ve got the complete opposite to you. I’m in a household of 3 gaming desktops and 3 laptops, plus family who need help. I’ve been daily driving Linux for about a decade now and keep duel boot around just for Adobe products.

On all these machines, Linux hs been rock solid and never had issues that wasn’t user caused. Windows on the other hand drives me crazy with how much it fucks out. I have next to no control over it. It updates when it wants. I have no control over what’s updated. I hate the gods damn ads (and that’s on Windows 10) despite running de-crappifying software. I hate how many errors it has and how long it takes t troubleshoot them. I hate that if the system borks itself enough, it’s faster and less insanity inducing to just reinstall the whole os than try and fix it. I hate that Windows just gets progressively slower and laggier over time whereas my 6 year running Arch install was as fast as the day I installed it.

”Finding a co-maintainer or passing the projects completely to someone else has been in my mind a long time but it’s not a trivial thing to do. For example, someone would need to have the skills, time, and enough long-term interest specifically for this.” - https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00571.html

As someone who runs a charity almost completely solo because of a lack of volunteers, I feel this so much in my bones. It’s one thing to say, “Hey folks, I can’t run this on my own, I need help” but it’s another to find people who actually have the level of skill, committent, passion and integrity to contribute in a meaningful way. I can get people putting their hands up but I’ve lost count of the number of people who have then turned around and said, “Oh, actually I realise now I don’t have time for this” or start in great and then just ghost me. It also takes more of my own time and energy, on top of what I’m already doing’ to onboard and train people and it sucks so hard when I do that and then people disappear shortly after - I constantly have to question whether the time it takes to do that will be worth it vs just continuing the struggle by myself.

When you get consumers being arrogant and demanding, getting angry at you for taking too long to respond to their messages or not work fast enough… it’s soul crushing. Way too many people take volunteer work for granted or assume you’re getting paid for your time and can therefore treat you like a working-class pleb or are plain just fucking rude and entitled. :( APPRECIATE YOUR VOLUNTEERS FOLKS! We need more volunteers, and appreciation. Many hands makes light work.

You realise that this comment is exactly part of the problem of why this happened, right? 🤦🏻‍♀️

Microsoft probably has a whole team in Turkey to make sure no one accidentally blocks their crap.

I’m so sad about Fisher & Paykel. It was a local (New Zealand) manufacturer that prided itself on quality. It had such a great reputation for quality it eventually took that great quality internationally. And then capitalism and eshitification got its grubby hands on it and turned it into another trash brand. Yet another quality local company disappearing off overseas, screwing over local workers and trashing the quality in favour of profit.

some guy that used to watch Star Trek as a kid wants to feel like they live in the future while piggybacking on someone else’s work.

I don’t think they care about their own nostalgia. I think they ant to use other people’s dreams to make a lot of money. I’m also sure some of them genuinely just ant to push the technological envelope just cause they can, ethics be damned. But ultimately, it’s just money.

I would love nothing more than the utopian future Trek promised but greed is killing it.

Looking at the Arch Wiki, it looks like this is a known issue. Give this solution a go:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MSI_GS65#Wifi_is_hardblocked_(airplane_mode)_after_waking_up_from_suspend

EDIT: on closer look, it’s not much of a solution. I assume you’ve tried restarting the network service and that doesn’t work either? Possibly you could automate the airplane mode key twice by triggering that after waking from suspend…

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Back about two decades when I was using Windows and it was till easily customisable, I changed the bsod colour to red for funsies. Windows being Windows crashed and went to my red screen of death - my ex’s cousin saw it and thought it was something really really bad, “Wow, a red screen, never seen that before. Must be even worse than blue”. No mate, I just customise the shit out of anything I touch 😅

As an ex webdesigner/dev, Squarespace, Weebly and the like killed my income well before ChatGPT did.

I would just move on. Some people have a bee in their bonnet and can’t look past their own problems and see why other folks might find certain discussions useful.

Personally, when I was first looking at switching to Linux (and then through distro hopping) I found discussion like these great as I could see other people’s reasons for choosing the distro they did.

Where is that a new thing? I’ve been using Linux since early 2010s and people were using that term back then (and it wasn’t a new term then either)

I don’t really have any one stand out reason. I first introduced myself to Linux in the late 1990s, buying a Red Hat CD and phone book sized manual that at the time cost a lot, especially as I was poor student. I think one of my tutors (I as doing computer studies) said that he ran Linux and I got nerdy and curious. It sadly didn’t last long as too much of my other study was based around Windows.

Over time, Iecame to despise corporate monopolies, spying, manipulation, billion dollar advertising budgets, and turning people into products (not just Microsoft, but Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) more and more, so I decided it was time (early 2010s) to give Linux a go again. I’d read people saying it was more usable for gaming than it used to be. Still required giving up some games since Steam Proton wasn’t a thing yet but for me, I was making an concious choice to only support gaming that was Linux native (or games that I already owned that worked on WINE).

I distro hopped bit before settling on Mint. Used that for about 2 years and then got a new PC. Wanted to challenge myself more and went with Arch. I have enjoyed the customisation, freedom, privacy and ethically conscious choice ever since.

I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed but I certainly try and free other people from the shackles of non-floss software as much as I can.

BTW I also use Arch (and also so does my husband) 😁

Third same. Before my current PC, my old PC was a 6yo install. Never had problems that weren’t caused by me (although I could count on one hand the number of times I had issues in that 6 years).

My current install is more than 2yo trouble free.

I’ve DE hopped and fiddled with heaps of stuff in that time too.

Thanks for the explainer! Also, Google’s response is such a crock of shit.

My first flavour was Red Hat back in the late 90s. It’s a shame I didn’t give it more of a go back then. Then Mint for a couple of years in the earlyish 2010s before finally settling on Arch where I’ve been for almost a decade now.

And Micro$oft

Wtf is that screenshot?! When you’re talking about user protection, it generally helps to have a relevant screenshot and not something thats going to confuse or put off users.

It’s been years and I have Memory Impairment so I’m not sure but I think part of the issue with syncing was that we had a ‘family’ database which made for multiple devices and several people needing to sync that while frustrating at times was OK, until we had an episode of data loss that just killed it for us. Enpass had built in sync, a nicer UI, more features and jut more cohesive across devices.

But again, my memory is very fuzzy and it’s worth looking into again because as good as Enpass is, it’s not open source.