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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Ok, I'll bite. I tried Ubuntu a few months ago. Logging into Eduroam was a bit of a process, but eventually I figured it out and it worked. Then one day the internet didn't work and I had no idea why. Something to do with the network drivers. Then I was trying to use OpenOffice (or LibreOffice? The one that came with the OS), and I use Zotero for references. The Zotero plugin had a bunch of glitches that made me not trust it. The Internet (back on Windows) assured me that it worked fine, but it was way glitchier than the Windows version.

The bottom line is that I just need this stuff to work because I don't have time to debug. I love the idea though; maybe I was using the wrong distro.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah depending on your hardware things like that can still happen sometimes. I don't think it's a lot more common than on other OSes. It's especially not really usual for something as basic as network drivers to misbehave though, especially suddenly. For what it's worth, my experience trying to use Zotero on Windows on both MS word and LibreOffice writer was also a glitchy mess. Anyway, hope you try it again another time when you are under a bit less pressure and it works out better for you then.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    For what it's worth I have had the same experience with Bluetooth on windows. I was suddenly out of periferals while at work and I had to frantically search for a mouse while in a meeting...

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    I had this issue, using pop. It just would not connect without specifying some parameters (I can’t remember which, domain or something and a few others). I had the same problem on Android, with the same solution.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    On windows, I only had to enter username and password.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    This is the information I had to specify when I connected from Linux and Android:

    Security: WPA2 Enterprise/802.1xEAP Encryption/EAP: PEAP EAP Phase 2 authentication: MSCHAPv2 CA certificate:

    That is in addition to a username and password I had to create via the university's website. On Windows, username and password sufficient.

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  • Same. Loaded Ubuntu on an under-specced (for Windows) Dell laptop a couple years ago. No niche OS, no obscure hardware. Out of the box, wifi won't stay connected for more than a few minutes. Literally no other device on the network (Android, Windows, Roku, etc) has wifi issues. Load Windows back on, it works fine.

    Linux is never going to take off until basic functionality works reliably. I'm not asking for the moon, here.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Bazzite is your answer in most cases imo. It's the most functional distro Ive ever used

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I daily drive it right now on my gaming rig. It's fairly stable, it has a few issues though like display color tweaking out upon waking up out of sleep or Bluetooth just straight up deciding it's done for the session and forcing me to reboot.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I love how you're getting downvoted. Kind of says it all

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    My assumption for the downvotes is that it's a pretty new (~1 year) and niche (gaming-oriented) distro, and largely irrelevant to your issue.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't understand how it's irrelevant? The drivers work great and it's a solid distro that doesn't have the issues of package updates breaking your pc without a way back easily.

    To me it fixed every issue that I had with Ubuntu /shrug

    They can downvote if they want, it's just internet points. I still recommend bazzite

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I guess that info not having been explained earlier maybe? I'd never even heard of Bazzite, and I've recently been looking up what new distro options are out there.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fwiw bazzite itself is new but it's just built on top of Fedora and is really stable. I have only had one issue with kernel panic on boot but rolling back was as easy as picking my version before the last update. Was fixed in less than a day

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