Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before
by hereonbusiness on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @06:47AM
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That is true in my experience, sooner or later you are going to run into a silly driver related problem with linux. Right now I'm having problems with the integrated Intel soundcard in my laptop. Using Xubuntu 10.10/Fedora 16 there never was any problem with it, ever since then it sometimes won't output to the speakers but I always get sound on the headphone jack. But it's mostly those peripheral things at least for me, the system as whole usually works pretty well.
Thing is, Linux is much more enjoyable to use for software development and deployment, development on Windows makes me feel like a second class citizen, the OS to me feels much more oriented towards the exclusive consumer, especially now with the new (metro) tablet like user interface.
In Linux, I always have problems with devices, in one way or another (specifically Ubuntu, but I think it's fairly representing the concept), both for new things, old things, not-so-new things, obscure things, etc. etc.
To complicate the problem, drivers fit in stacks that may interact in unexpectedly broken ways. This means that say, a wireless audio adapter, may work only 50% of the times it's connected. I was using Windows long ago, and I don't remember this category of things happening (I guess because there are only a few Windows).
So, certainly they work "OK", but one needs to be quite flexible on what OK means. I've got two machines which are not so arcane, and I have at least 4, hardware-related (not stack-related), open bugs.