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When did Right Click -> Set as Wallpaper -> Desktop involve writing code?
Yes, older versions of Linux may have had that setting buried in a config file somewhere, which required editing in a text editor. And that sort of UI was shit, is shit and will always be shit. But, if we're going to bring up old versions of an OS, let's talk about Windows Me.
That's the funny thing. To laugh about something easy being made stupidly complex on linux, you have to go back in time some few years.
To laugh about something easy being made stupidly complex on windows... you just need to update to the last version.
No you don't. OP just chose a bad example.
It's not been that long since I last used Linux, but when I did, I had to type a command in the terminal to change screen brightness (kubuntu)
... You can just change it from the bottom right tray? I run KDE Neon now, but used to run kubuntu. That's just a standard feature of KDE, and I think gnome too. I didn't even know there was a way to do it via terminal.
Was the command [Fn]+[F6]?
If only it were that simple.
To be honest, I'd have no idea how to change screen brightness in Windows at all.
I either do it with function keys on the keyboard (on a laptop), or the monitor itself (on a desktop).
It's in screen settings. But you can also use the keyboard keys and it works.
Well, it's also worked in Plasma on every PC I used so far.
So this isn't a case of "You need the console for everything in Linux" but rather "Something doesn't work on your system".
Which can happen on any OS.
Well, according to what I read on the internet, everything works out of the box for Linux and this year is the year of the Linux desktop. But according to personal experience and most of the people I know IRL, there is always someone that spent last weekend fixing some weird thing that doesn't work on their system in Linux that used to work correctly when they used windows instead.
For them, unless you have the exact same hardware and use case as whoever you heard that from, you've misunderstood.
Everything works out of the box for linux for me because I bought hardware that specifically is known to run well with linux and is supported (and previously was running hardware so old it was supported by the time I got there lol). So if you're running the same hardware and same distro and are using it the same as me, then yes expect the same results, if not, expect possible different results from whichever variable you changed.
It may work out of the box for you if you also have well supported hardware and are using a good distro for it (newer hardware bleeding edge distro, older hardware either LTS or you can try a bleeding edge maybe). If you have nvidea or broadcom it probably won't work without some fiddling because your hardware isn't well supported due to the companies not wanting to.
Believing memes now are we? This is the funny joke linux version of the mindset like when qanon was all "totally gonna lock up hillary next month bro totally it'll happen just one more month bro," the most serious it get is people going "well shit linux actually has been gaining more users lately, nice, 'year of the linux desktop lolol.'" Don't believe that you should remove the French language pack either that's a meme/trick to get you to delete your system.
ok
Me using niri
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To change my lock screen background I still have to go into like /usr/sddm (or some such dir, I don't remember which specifically and it's not booted rn).
For some reason the setting in FedoraKDE for "lock screen background" will change the "lock screen background," but only after I've logged in and then re-locked, on boot it still showed the Fedora default. But I wanted it on boot, too, as it's a single user laptop anyway. To do that you have to place the file in iirc sddm's config dir.
At least with linux though I can design my own Plymouth theme and change my splash screen, try that on windows (idk if you can or not but I'm gonna assume no since I've never seen anyone do it.)
You can still do it that way anyway, if you want to. Many (many =/= the majority of) Linux users want their system to work exactly like that, and set it up such that there's no other way. And that's the beauty: Choice!