>With Linux, you just have to be prepared to hit a bug and find no help coming anytime.

I'd argue it's the opposite. Windows stuff randomly breaking on forced unattended updates is a common trope by now. If you try to search for solutions, you will find "Trusted Microsoft Computing Expert Gold Level Diamond Star" people on MS forums giving you advice ranging from "reinstall drivers, uninstall drivers, update bios, run virus scan, and defrag your ssd".

If you search for problems on linux, you will get much higher quality answers.

>>With Linux, you just have to be prepared to hit a bug and find no help coming anytime.

Mate there are bugs in windows and macos that have been unfixed for years. This is not a good argument in my opinion.

> find no help coming anytime

Well, see sibling thread: Looks like you just need to post your bounty in HN and somebody will do within a few hours. Somebody to that for Windows or macos.

Sometimes I feel the bounty topic isn't well served yet. On the GNOME bug tracker it doesn't seem to be very discoverable. Are there current good platforms to advertise bounties where people actually look?

Are you proposing that the linux community offers worse support than any kind of software support that you pay for? I've found strangers on the internet to be worlds better than anything I've ever gotten from a vendor.

I had one client who's explorer didn't load, we tried different file browsers, all that used explorer as backend failed to load, only double commander (forgot the exact name, it's a dual pan file browser like midnight commander) that worked. And we couldn't find any solution online, at the end he was stuck with it for over an year, as it was not possible to reinstall.

On Linux everything is mostly decoupled, so this is not working not going to break the other thing, and I can replace it with something else.

People forgets that you're not working with a black box, unlike Windows

The default remote desktop client on Windows 11 can have his picture freeze. Mouse and keyboard input still goes through though. (Which is especially dangerous because enraged users will smash their keyboard.) Years without a fix from Microsoft. Just a registry hack as a workaround.

Mint is my preferred OS for my homelab. Nice to have a decent GUI to plug into when using a KVM switch.

Excellent, I will try it straight away. I'll pay out 75% if it works (as it fixes my immediate problem), and the remaining 25% if it gets merged. I'll email you after my test.

I think one possible complaint you might get in the review is that when refreshing is fully disabled in the menu, people won't see new networks come up (e.g. when they had just enabled Wifi, or unsuspended).

Maybe a good solution would be to to have one unclickable menu entry pop up labelled e.g. "Networks changed, re-open this menu" to solve that. Probably in nm-applet's main context menu of which the list is a child, instead of in the list itself, so that its appearance doesn't move around the networks on which the user is currently intending to click.

Ashamed to admit that the power of monetary motivation got the best of me here. But it was also nice to apply myself.

Or maybe the operating system should just work reliably for (at least) the basics? Or if it can’t, at least give an indication why?

Blaming a new user like this is one of the cultural reasons why the ‘year of the Linux desktop’ has always been n+1.

I tried everything lol.

Yeowch, for my old MBPs (Core 2 duo I want to say) I run Mint and have had no problems. Maybe just luck of the draw but I've been really impressed

Asahi linux to not waste hardware and then move away from apple products slowly. But in the meantime, their products are good and are Unix based so they're not a pain for development.

Probably stop using technology. Might go back to bartending tbh.