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by Arnavion 1135 days ago
It has nothing to do with being a "Linux user" and everything to do with being an LTS OS user. Not being bowled over by rewrite-the-world changes is why rolling release distros exist.

And before anyone says it, no "rolling release" doesn't mean "unstable".

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I'm on Fedora which is pretty up to date and I just have random issues all the time. Currently I can't get xbox controllers to pair. It works on windows, it worked on fedora when I tried a few months ago, absolutely can't get it working now. When I switch audio outputs, they don't work until I kill pipewire a random number of times and then they work.

And these are just the random breakages, not the missing features like fractional scaling and HDR. Obviously these problems don't affect everyone, but they affect me and despite a decade of linux experience, I can't find solutions.

Counterpoint: I run Arch Linux on all my machines and I can't remember the last time something broke that wasn't ZFS, and I opted into that one, it's explicitly unsupported. I switch between a Bluetooth headset and my speakers/webcam multiple times a day and it just works (I'm also using pipewire, not pulse).