Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022)
by NayamAmarshe on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:39PM
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> There are still too many random hardware issues,
Still too many implies more than 50% of existing hardware has issues which could not be true because I've installed Linux on more than 20 computers with different hardware configuration. The only ones that have given me hardware issues were newer laptops with Nvidia drivers but even those Nvidia issues were fixed by Nvidia (like RTX 3050 not supporting join displays function with external monitor).
Unsupported devices, that's not entirely because of the Linux Desktop. Buy a laptop from Tuxedo and tell me if you get those issues because you 100% of the time are buying a Windows computer. That's like expecting Windows to work properly without issues on MacBook natively and then complaining that Windows does not support Apple when in reality it's the opposite.
Linux is not magic, it's fast, it's efficient, it's amazing but it cannot be one sided. If it doesn't work for your hardware, you can't really blame Linux for not supporting something that does not want to support Linux. Linux will be fine on 99% of the general hardware, but when it's not, just simply accept that it's not compatible. Instead of blaming all of the Linux desktop.
> Of course Windows and Mac are not immune to those but they cause issues much less commonly.
No other reason other than paid and owned occupancy. Linux laptops work great, Linux on desktop works great with most hardware. Newer hardware takes time but can we really blame the kernel maintainers for not getting the edge Microsoft does?
Still too many implies more than 50% of existing hardware has issues which could not be true because I've installed Linux on more than 20 computers with different hardware configuration. The only ones that have given me hardware issues were newer laptops with Nvidia drivers but even those Nvidia issues were fixed by Nvidia (like RTX 3050 not supporting join displays function with external monitor).
Unsupported devices, that's not entirely because of the Linux Desktop. Buy a laptop from Tuxedo and tell me if you get those issues because you 100% of the time are buying a Windows computer. That's like expecting Windows to work properly without issues on MacBook natively and then complaining that Windows does not support Apple when in reality it's the opposite.
Linux is not magic, it's fast, it's efficient, it's amazing but it cannot be one sided. If it doesn't work for your hardware, you can't really blame Linux for not supporting something that does not want to support Linux. Linux will be fine on 99% of the general hardware, but when it's not, just simply accept that it's not compatible. Instead of blaming all of the Linux desktop.
> Of course Windows and Mac are not immune to those but they cause issues much less commonly.
No other reason other than paid and owned occupancy. Linux laptops work great, Linux on desktop works great with most hardware. Newer hardware takes time but can we really blame the kernel maintainers for not getting the edge Microsoft does?