Linux is great on laptops. A bug can happen anywhere. And macOS is way too locked down for many people. Of course Linux is great for servers too but why stop there? I really love KDE as a desktop. It's just more free and configurable than either Windows or Mac. I don't like being stuck with the choices made by the developer. For this reason I don't use gnome either but it's good that it exists for those who do subscribe to the opinionated software concept. That's the biggest strength of Linux. It can be whatever you want it to be.
PS using FreeBSD as my daily driver desktop myself :) But not on a laptop but on a NUC.
Linux on laptops is great, especially ThinkPad's and machines older than a a few generations. I just started using gnome after being a loyal xfce user for years and it's refreshing with all it's integration (with lots of extensions for customization).
For example, does it use the same keyring as the rest of the applications yet? Does the WiFi menu still select an entry different than the one you click?
If you use Qt apps, it will use KDE's keyring. This is simply caused by the lack of standardisation in such elements of Linux desktop environments.
I tend to use mostly Qt apps, because they look the most 'native' on KDE and have the best integration. They also have the same philosophy (the more user choice and settings the better) which I subscribe to, so I naturally gravitate towards them.
And no the wifi applet always worked correctly for me (I don't use wifi on my main desktop but on laptops it works fine for me)
There's also things I don't like with KDE but there's almost always an option to change it. Whereas with Gnome there is almost never any such option, it could be there is an extension that does it but having too many extensions tends to drag you into a quagmire of version dependencies making it really hard to upgrade.
The one thing I really don't like about KWin is that the virtual desktops of each display can't be switched independently like with i3 for example. They're all stuck together. But this is a minor inconvenience compared to all the things I dislike about Gnome.
Of course YMMV and that is why we have Linux <3
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kwallet/-/merge_requests/1...
Consider me excited.
I think both Gnome and KDE are pretty good but Gnome's design decisions and philosophy don't match my preferences.
UNIX philosophy - do one thing and do it right?:)
Bug free software doesn't exist. Hardware destroying bugs are thankfully very rare, but they do exist.
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/22/adobe-premiere-pro-fix-...
Note that unlike said macOS bug this one isn't in a stable operating system release. It's the equivalent of finding a bug in the macOS Ventura alpha. How else was this bug supposed to get fixed if not by people running the latest kernel and finding said bug?
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Lot of these highly dangerous things are controlled over I2C or SPI buses, which don't use any checksum mechanisms, so SoC can send "set CPU core voltage to 1.1V" and PMIC can plausibly read "set CPU core voltage to 1.8V" due to noise on the data line, or what not, and just do it.
It's kind of interesting that failures don't happen more often.