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Re:The Day Windows Died by StrangeATractor on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:07AM (#35419617)
It's 2023, do people still have driver issues on Linux? Last I had to worry about that was when Ubuntu was <10.xx. It works well on random machines IME for the last two decades almost.

(Admittedly, I've done well by staying away from nvidia)

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Re:The Day Windows Died by beebeepka on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:41AM (#35419894)
Some WiFi drivers are still not mainlined, so yeah, depending on the exact model, a brand new laptop may not have WiFi, regardless of distribution. I just bought one like that. It sucks.

All I have to do now is rebuild the driver after an update. "No Biggie"

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Re:The Day Windows Died by dagw on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:13AM (#35419660)
2022 I spent several days trying to get Ubuntu to run stably without tearing on an AMD Ryzen APU.
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Re:The Day Windows Died by StrangeATractor on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:17AM (#35419691)
It Works For Me!™

Seriously though, compatibility issues seem the exception to the rule nowadays. Getting wifi or display drivers working used to be...challenging, if not traumatizing. You could put that shit on your resume nowadays. "I set up X11 with native resolution and got WiFi working most of the time in 2003 without damaging hardware."

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Re:The Day Windows Died by Gordonjcp on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:01AM (#35420072)
> It's 2023, do people still have driver issues on Linux?

Almost nobody. Most manufacturers have come to the conclusion that if they're going to dick about with special proprietary drivers, they can expect to sell a handful of their product compared to one that is just normal.

No-one wants a webcam that uses a special super-sekrit magic driver that has to be downloaded from some sketchy website. They want to plug it in and wave to granny, or join their Teams call. Thus, the special super-sekrit proprietary crap got evolved out of existence.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by AnonCoward42 on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:45AM (#35420417)
It depends. With new hardware you're bound to have some trouble especially on "old" Linux versions (i.e. using Ubuntu 22.04), however these issues are very often fixed by installing a newer kernel. YMMV
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Re:The Day Windows Died by piyush_soni on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:50AM (#35420885)
I do. We don't use Ubuntu / Fedora. We use the stone-age RHEL/CentOS distros. AND we have NVidia drivers to worry about almost everyday. And all our work-arounds go away as soon as IT updates the Linux Kernel. That never happens on Windows machines. It's such a PIA, among other problems that of-course our IT doesn't have any knowledge of, so we have to find the solutions ourselves.
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Re:The Day Windows Died by samuell on Saturday April 08, 2023 @05:43AM (#35491892)
I do, on Debian 11 XFCE.

- I can't connect my Sony Xperia 10 II mobile via USB cord to transfer files. Debian won't recognize it as a mass storage device.

- Can't connect to my wife's ancient Samsung ML-1640 laser printer.

Both of the above work in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but not Debian 11 XFCE.

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