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So you're saying it fits right in on Lemmy
Linux users who haven't had a driver issue have simply gotten lucky but they confuse this result with technical skill. Sometimes your hardware works fine, sometimes it isn't supported. Unless you're writing the drivers yourself you didn't fix the problem you merely avoided it by happenstance.
not skill issue tbh
Since everyone’s posting their anecdotes:
I tried out Bazzite, a distro intended for gaming. Much of it was great, but often after coming back from sleep mode, the whole desktop would be suffering from graphical corruption; something I’d largely chalk up to bad drivers.
And, somewhat ironically, I’m also a cyclist, who needs to plan out winter trips when it’s often going to be dark and people are drunk.
Ehm... I'm a debian unstable user since 2012 and i have never had a driver issue... am I doing somwthing wrong?
Are you using nvidia or broadcom? Cause Mint 22 hates my Intel Wi-Fi card.
I may have been lucky.
My first video cards where pretty old for the time in which i used them: Ge 2 Mx400, intel family HD 2500, Rx 570. Now im running with Rx 6750 xt and vega 8 on my laptop (I think).
Wifi cards, i really dont remember cause i have never experienced visible or obvious problems. I'll check and update later.
With my bluetooth i had an odd experience cause i never got it to run even on windows (first laptop) but eventually started working on linux after a debian clean installation +5 years later. Had some problems with a bluetooth dongle that pretty much solved themselves once i got the proper kernel update.
Edit: Ge 2 was running on bumblebee.. I once tried to run it on the official drivers. It worked, but fucked everything in a funny way.
Man...if I resume from suspend on most distros of Ubuntu, mint, Debian, the WiFi just never comes back on. I resulted in just shutdown on laptop lid close to deal with it. No sense in closing the lid unless I'm done anyways
Literally was a school bus driver for a few months. Quit because it was too stressful dealing with all them kids at the same time as driving a big ass vehicle. Still got a Class A and can legally drive pretty much anything on wheels that isn't carrying chemical or biological hazards, if any trucking companies paid well enough.
Linux does have plenty issues.
But in the Netherlands, you can cycle without worrying much about cars
If the Netherlands was a linux distro, what would it be
Ubuntu with all the additional servers and quality of life features enabled. But no firewall, and it somehow runs from a ramdisk.
Here are some of the tools, with input from the GPT (90% was not funny, these might be but I don't speak Dutch).
Package management:
bami -opdienen <pakket> # Install a package
bami -opeten <pakket> # Uninstall a package
bami -doorroeren # Update all installed packages
bami -keuken <pakket> # List available packages
bami -smaaktest # Check the details of a package
bami -restanten # Clean up orphaned or unused packages
Process management:
vla -aanzet # Start a new process
vla -proeven # Check the status of a process
Perfect
I haven’t had a single driver issue in 10 years If anything I have had less. Linux currently has exactly two problems:
- Compatibility.
- distribution fragmentation.
As a Linux user myself I did have a lot of trouble with drivers when I had to use windows or macos with old devices
Apparently, you're not a cyclist.
Small correction, I was technically ran over once in that time span.
What does it mean to be technically run over as opposed to actually run over?
Could add a third arm for motorcycle riders!
What? It's hard to hear anything with all that noise.
To be fair I've never seen Linux cut between cars in standstill traffic while going twice the speed limit
And a fourth for shit-quality screw heads
This is totally wrong for most users I think. On Windows I had to worry about drivers. On Linux I never think about it. They just come with kernel updates and I never have to put any thought into it.
HP does not even have a driver for my printer on their website anymore and it's not just working ootb either. On windows that is. Of course it just works on linux.
The only time I ever have to even think about drivers is when I'm cursed with something from work that has to be written for, or done in Windows. Drivers on Linux are great if you don't need something like an obscure piece of hardware, and even then, your odds are probably better than on Windows. .
Cycling these days has gotten much easier. You can even sleep in and skip breakfast; once out on your ride you can get food from the universal cereal bus.
Hi dad!
Hi Susie! 🥰 Your mom also says hi and reminds you not to RAM any drivers on your pizza run or your stack might overflow.
Did you get the linter we sent for your birthday? Auntie Linu says you can use it when you compile your route to spot red flags.
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