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I'm using Linux on the desktop for 15 years and I still sometimes cannot connect to Wifi.

This is because the list of network refreshes (and disappears) before I can find and click the correct Wifi:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/-/issu...

This completely breaks the Linux experience for anybody living in a reasonably populous area. The issue has 3 upvotes.

I also put a 400 $ bounty on it, if anybody wants to give it a shot. (Given that AI is supposed to replace 90% of programmers last year, making the Wifi list stay visible should be easy, right?)

This worked fine 10 years ago.

Most of my gripes are around some UI garbage behaviour like that. I have a file manager on one PC (I think it's the Ubuntu one where some "GUI in Snap" stuff breaks the GUI) breaks the file picker dialogue, so that when pasting a directory path in to navigate there, at the exact instant you press Enter, it autocompletes the first file so that that gets selected, leading you to upload a file you didn't want to upload.

That said, all of that feels like really high quality compared to when once per year I click the Wifi menu on some Windows and it take 20 seconds to appear at all.

parent nh2 9 months ago

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