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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 20:06:33 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   Linux GUI stuff is still just barely hanging in there in terms of offering an experience that won't confuse the hell out of a Windows or macOS user. Yes, the basic stuff in Mint works out of the box without much hassle, but the moment you need something specific, it gets complicated real fast. Basically, it's fine for non-techies and command line ninjas, but kind of falls apart for the power users.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 20:09:50 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      We tried adding a Google account to my roommate's new Mint install using Gnome, and when he tried to browse his Drive files, it just sat there forever trying to sync and we had to close the window. Also, we were unable to use copy and paste in the dialog box that logs you into Google Drive, so we had to fiddle around with the auto-type in KeepassXC to make it work, since he uses extremely long autogenerated passwords for everything.

      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 20:13:49 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         Synergy worked fine, but we had to manually put it in the Gnome startup items, since Synergy made no effort to do that for us. I know you can't blame Linux Mint for this neglected detail in Synergy, but that doesn't really matter to the user. If the user notices that the Linux versions of all his programs are kind of shoddy, that puts Linux itself in a bad light, since what he cares about is the Linux experience as a whole.

         1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 20:17:08 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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            Being a Linux tech, I of course know that the Synergy devs are probably reluctant to attempt stuff like that because of the fragmentation in the Linux desktop space. Gnome probably doesn't read its startup items from the same location as KDE or Xfce, so in order to even make that feature work, it has to be implemented 3 times (or more, because there are more desktop environments than just those three).

            1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 20:18:16 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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               But from the user's perspective, all of this is just excuses, since it doesn't help him in any way.