"A bodge of bodges"
Jan. 3rd, 2022 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starseerdrgnSo, I tried installing Fedora (the one distro that worked worked with my Dell Latitude E6430's Optimus chipset), and it didn't go well. First attempt saw only basic VGA drivers loaded from the live environment, and that was from a "bad burn" to the USB drive. Second attempt got things installed, but the discreet GPU overheated from something (I don't know what) ramping the nVidia GPU up to max without me noticing.
I've said so many times that Linux is a "bodge of bodges", strung together from pieces held together by tape and bailing wire, and only working from sheer force of willpower. It's frustrating to use, and it's become frustrating to deal with out of the box as of late. I mean, so has Windows, so has modern MacOS, but I wonder if that's just because OS design has become so complex that user experience is a "last world problem" at this point. That, or devs hope people will just use something in the cloud and ignore the problems they keep causing.
I'm really only happy running older OSes, because I don't want to spend more time maintaining my systems than using them. I keep saying it, but it's become so true as of late.
I've said so many times that Linux is a "bodge of bodges", strung together from pieces held together by tape and bailing wire, and only working from sheer force of willpower. It's frustrating to use, and it's become frustrating to deal with out of the box as of late. I mean, so has Windows, so has modern MacOS, but I wonder if that's just because OS design has become so complex that user experience is a "last world problem" at this point. That, or devs hope people will just use something in the cloud and ignore the problems they keep causing.
I'm really only happy running older OSes, because I don't want to spend more time maintaining my systems than using them. I keep saying it, but it's become so true as of late.
