Every time I’ve tried a regular Linux distro lately networking has been absolute trash. It technically works but the delay between request and resolution is at least a minute long. But somehow, it magically works if I use ping from a command prompt? Pinging a site such as google.com comes right back and ping looks great, meanwhile I type in google.com and it won’t pull up in a browser for a minute or longer. No proxy set, no weirdness, both wired and wireless. This is on any distro (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Pop!, Fedora, etc) and even separate PCs. My network? Well, it seems like Windows (on the same PCs), ChromeOS (Linux!), and Android (Linux!) just works somehow.
Linux has begun to become an absolute mess. I had used it since around 2000 and have dropped it lately because it’s become so convoluted that I can’t even use it effectively. Don’t even get me started on the laughable disaster that is Wayland. Oh, look, it works on our expensive computers, must work on everyone’s. “But not mine, it’s not even nvidia–” INVALID BUG, WAYLAND IS PERFECT.
It is, actually. It’s just your underage idea of “slow and old” is a four year old Core i3 laptop without a hyper-powered graphics card in it, not actual old laptops that run like shit, and many aren’t even 64-bit.
Every time I’ve tried a regular Linux distro lately networking has been absolute trash. It technically works but the delay between request and resolution is at least a minute long. But somehow, it magically works if I use ping from a command prompt? Pinging a site such as google.com comes right back and ping looks great, meanwhile I type in google.com and it won’t pull up in a browser for a minute or longer. No proxy set, no weirdness, both wired and wireless. This is on any distro (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Pop!, Fedora, etc) and even separate PCs. My network? Well, it seems like Windows (on the same PCs), ChromeOS (Linux!), and Android (Linux!) just works somehow.
Linux has begun to become an absolute mess. I had used it since around 2000 and have dropped it lately because it’s become so convoluted that I can’t even use it effectively. Don’t even get me started on the laughable disaster that is Wayland. Oh, look, it works on our expensive computers, must work on everyone’s. “But not mine, it’s not even nvidia–” INVALID BUG, WAYLAND IS PERFECT.
Pfft.
yeah, linux, famous for being bloated and slow on old laptops, especially old thinkpads
It is, actually. It’s just your underage idea of “slow and old” is a four year old Core i3 laptop without a hyper-powered graphics card in it, not actual old laptops that run like shit, and many aren’t even 64-bit.
Grow up.
get a minimal install of arch or gentoo and try