Re:Porting a macOS Clojure Dev Setup to Windows WSL2
by simion314 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:19PM
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My experience:
WiFi device comes with CD but I have no CD-ROM. Then I try to google this no name brand and find the official website but fail.
I plug the device in Linux and figure out exactly the real chip used (many devices reuse same chips and put their own antenna and branding on top).
Now I know the real chip name but the guys that make it do not offer driver downloads to regular users, so I need to Google and find some driver.
Then the next problem, what website that offers driver downloads should I trust? I never heard of any of them, in the end I remember that many years ago I was downloading stuff from softpedia, decided that I already spent too much time on this and since it was my son PC I can risk it and grabbed a few potential drivers from there.
After that I needed to refresh my memory how to install drivers when you don't have a wizard and read a quick tutorial and follow it.
Conclusion, there are tons of hardware , as a Linux users in more then 15 years I can list only this issues(I am not using 4K or multiple screens setups):
- a few years back AMD catalyst driver dropped support for my 1 year old laptop (maybe the chip was older) forcing me to decide if I use older software or the crappy at that time open source software ( this costed AMD sicne I bought NVIDIA next time)
- for latest NVIDIA driver I just need to google , find and enable and official repository and now I can install from a list of drivers versions, I do not need to make an NVIDIA account to get updates.
- my Cannon printer was detect fine, I had to select a similar model from a dropdown and change a setting from RGM to CMYK (I had to google this)
- I had issues with microphones on cheap headphones, my solution was to buy USB headphones - they just work (including Microsoft ones) no driver installs
I never had to install an audio or network driver on Linux, on Windows I had issues with same hardware where installing drivers from Windows and not from the original CD would make the audio and network conflict (both were Realteck chips and Windows would get confused).
Btw I am not saying your experience is not happening, I am sure that some new hardware will be missing support and some other hardware might experience bugs, I added my experience to put things in balance.
WiFi device comes with CD but I have no CD-ROM. Then I try to google this no name brand and find the official website but fail.
I plug the device in Linux and figure out exactly the real chip used (many devices reuse same chips and put their own antenna and branding on top).
Now I know the real chip name but the guys that make it do not offer driver downloads to regular users, so I need to Google and find some driver.
Then the next problem, what website that offers driver downloads should I trust? I never heard of any of them, in the end I remember that many years ago I was downloading stuff from softpedia, decided that I already spent too much time on this and since it was my son PC I can risk it and grabbed a few potential drivers from there.
After that I needed to refresh my memory how to install drivers when you don't have a wizard and read a quick tutorial and follow it.
Conclusion, there are tons of hardware , as a Linux users in more then 15 years I can list only this issues(I am not using 4K or multiple screens setups):
- a few years back AMD catalyst driver dropped support for my 1 year old laptop (maybe the chip was older) forcing me to decide if I use older software or the crappy at that time open source software ( this costed AMD sicne I bought NVIDIA next time)
- for latest NVIDIA driver I just need to google , find and enable and official repository and now I can install from a list of drivers versions, I do not need to make an NVIDIA account to get updates.
- my Cannon printer was detect fine, I had to select a similar model from a dropdown and change a setting from RGM to CMYK (I had to google this)
- I had issues with microphones on cheap headphones, my solution was to buy USB headphones - they just work (including Microsoft ones) no driver installs
I never had to install an audio or network driver on Linux, on Windows I had issues with same hardware where installing drivers from Windows and not from the original CD would make the audio and network conflict (both were Realteck chips and Windows would get confused).
Btw I am not saying your experience is not happening, I am sure that some new hardware will be missing support and some other hardware might experience bugs, I added my experience to put things in balance.