Linux as a daily desktop.

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Anyone else use a nix variation as their main machine? I gave up my powerful pc to the FIL after his died and switched to ubuntu for everything. The problem is, the slightly lost and pained transition period has never gone away. I spent 3 years in my last job using unix terminals daily so the command line doesn't scare me, but I find I need to use it too often.

Yes it's great I have so many configuration options available to me, but half of them are not documented anywhere, and practically everything requires scampering off to the internet. Today's job, persuading it not to play everything in 5.1. I looked in the sound options, nothing there. Internet says I have to alter some conf file I'd never have guessed of looking in. I do that, and kill the audio service. No change. I log out and in again (really, on a nix box?!), and it still doesn't work. For something that used to be a tick box in a windows gui.

Now there are things that are done better, but imo the real reason Linux has never taken off is because everything is a royal pain in the arse. Most people are lazy, and we don't find obscure command line strings masochistic. I like open source, but at least closed source has focus and actually gets things done.

Anyone else feel the same? I feel windows 10 beckoning.