Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by dkonofalski on Monday October 14, 2019 @06:51PM
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>Anyone that's managing to install Linux on their computer has the knowledge necessary to make it " just work."
I disagree wholeheartedly. Linux is easy to install. It's not easy to write a driver for a piece of hardware. It's not even easy sometimes to install a driver that someone else wrote.
Case in point: the state of VR on Linux right now. It works for a lot of people that can dork around with setting things up. It's not, in any way, shape, or form, ready for use by people.
Edit: The Wacom example still supports my point anyways. The drivers that you say are included are from the project page. They are not official Wacom drivers and, as such, are missing functionality for some tablets.
>Our drivers are pre-installed in many major distribution... Oftentimes, you can simply plug in your tablet and start working.
I understand it's just an example though. Yes you can sometimes buy some strange hardware that won't automatically work. This happens in Windows too, and installing a package does not require more technical capability than installing something on Windows.
>them but that's a very liberal definition of "just works", imo.
Anyone that's managing to install Linux on their computer has the knowledge necessary to make it " just work." Anybody that buys a computer with Linux on it should expect it to just work.