photo dump, apparently digital cameras are in vogue these days

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If ur curious why I still make windows 7 work and not just jump ship to linux.. Well I did jump ship to linux for around 1 year and hated it, tried out about 10 different distros [debian based, arch based, even suse based] and none of them had what I was looking for! Linux can look like Windows 7, run as fast as Windows 7 and be as reliable as Windows 7 but you can only have 2 of these qualities at the same time..

KDE Plasma 5 with or without skins [and you NEED to skin it because Plasma5 looks like the windows 10 we have at home without skins] ran like swamp ass on my computer and took around 4 minutes to boot [i suspect something was broken on that install which caused the PC to poll for some HW for like 2 minutes on boot] and because it was a modern kernel my HD 7570 just wouldnt work right so the desktop was choppy as all hell moving around windows and scrolling in the browser, on top of all that proton didnt work because my GPU doesn't support vulkan.. Because Plasma was wayland I couldnt use Gallium3d to try and circumvent that and OpenGL is dogshit so I couldn't play any source games, which are the only games I play on the computer! Plasma 5 with a Windows 7 skin can run great if your computer is young enough and has the grunt to push through Linux's inefficiencies and lack of optimization, mine doesn't.

I then I tried a fork of KDE Plasma 4 on an older kernel and it ran great and looked great but was not at all reliable, some peripherals wouldnt show up, you couldnt unzip from the right click context menu, the sound AND wifi applet didnt work and I had to spend a WEEK figuring out how to fix it, etc. Gallium3d took me a few days to set up and in the end it ran fine'ish on games like TF2 but nowhere near native DirectX and it would randomly artifact. This is the install I'm the most bummed about because it was SO CLOSE to being good enough for me but its just not dependable, its a 50/50 shot with any new usb thing working and the software support on debian for random things is weak, wine is useless when interacting with USB devices so I cant put music on my iPod shuffle on ANY linux distro

And finally I tried some distro with LXQT on it, it was smooth and all my peripherals worked fine! However, my GPU was still unsupported by steam and I must say that LXQT and ALL the DE's like it are HIDEOUS!! Every DE in Linux these days is a Windows 10 home brand knockoff when it comes to aesthetics and workflow and I don't know why that is because you go to Linux to escape Windows?? Do we suddenly like Windows 10 now?? Windowmaker is actually superior to slop like LXQT and XFCE because at least wmaker has a consistent theme and FEELS like something made for unix with a unique and well thought out workflow, everything else just feels ham fisted and clunky.

No I didn't try out a tiling WM during my time with linux, was too busy with shit just not working to try them out sadly


So yea, I came running back to good old Windows 7 when I found out about a community dedicated to keeping W7 up to par with modern standards. They made custom debloated ISO's which get 7 running nearly as quick as XP and all the updates necessary without the bloat Microsoft backported in during W7's later years and they maintain a browser called r3dfox that gets the latest versions of firefox. Modern browser support was really the only thing linux had going for it with me and since W7 actually still had that; I dropped Linux like a hot potato. It was fun but I need something that just works with my aging hardware lol

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