I play daily with friends and I have maybe one disruption per year with voice not working, zero lags, constant 5ms latency, and since 2018 I had completely ZERO bots pm me. Recently someone messaged me out of nowhere about playing Phasmophobia together, with a girly avatar, and I thought it must be some bot, but it turned out to be an actual person 😅

It’s interesting for me how different experiences we have

Discord is completely fine. It doesn’t break. Practically no bugs. The only annoying thing is that sometimes the shop gets a red badge but that’s it

apart from that, learning programming went from something one does out of calling, to something one does to get a job. The percentage of programmers that actually like coding is going down, so on average they’re going to be worse

I am from Europe and it is the norm where I live

linux developers only care about shit they themselves care about, powertripping and some stupid principles they made up, not about making a usable environment for everyone

Meh, I guess there’s just no reason for it to be synced. Hardware is out of the question

it’s horribly out of sync with the screenshare and low quality

Yeah it’s great, same thing on the Google Pixel. The mic/camera thing brings peace of mind

That’s insightful, thank you. It wasn’t hard to follow, I did have these exact same “adventures” but I guess I forgot about them after I figured out the ways to do things.

Personally these kinds of things are exciting for me, trying to understand the constraints etc, so maybe that’s also why I don’t remember struggling with learning Rust, since it wasn’t painful for me 😅 If someone has to learn by being forced to and not out of their own will, it’s probably a lot harder

Could you specify some kind of example where things were hard?

I see that my previous comment is not the common reality apparently.

I’m mainly a C# + js dev of a few years, and I would love to see what precisely other people here are having problems with, because I’ve had a completely different experience to most of the people replying.

I just don’t understand this. You get used to the syntax and borrow checker in a day or two. It’s a non-issue.

if you don’t implement it, it will get implemented by someone else anyway and you’re putting your job at risk

As a ““power user”” of software, 98% of software sucks. There’s always shit that makes you go “have they even tried using this?” or “did they test this at all?”

There were UX bugs though it’s been some time so I don’t remember all of them.

One of them was that when I pressed the windows key and searched for an app sometimes it just wouldn’t react at all, and I had to press it multiple times or use another way to launch an application.

Also the default file manager would often hang up for no apparent reason.

The desktop widgets would change their position every single time I logged in and would even disappear.

Edit: just remembered a hilarious one that took me a lot of time to figure out what was happening. If I had my second display turned on while logging in, the visual scale would always set itself to a ridiculous value like 1% or something and everything would be too small to do anything. I had to turn off the display every time I would log in. Before this I didn’t even know the PC could detect whether a display is turned on or off.

No matter what I set the scale to in display configurations, it would get fucked if I logged in with a second display turned on.

wish I could say for sure but it was like 2 years since I last used xfce.

I think there were some long-standing bugs that the devs said were not their problem

honestly I’d just want a DE that isn’t bugged and has all the basic functionalities. So far I couldn’t even find one.

I agree with the top level comment but this one reeks of toxicity, so unnecessary

Haven’t encountered a single game that doesn’t work since being on Linux for over a year, though they surely exist, and I’ve played at least 30. The only things annoying me is that I have to reconnect my steering wheel after I start Dirt Rally 2.0 to have Force Feedback, and that I can’t tab out of League of Legends and instead have to minimize it with win+down.

Even though this is bad and many developers won’t want to use Unity, I think there still may be enough devs that will comply and generate more profit.