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Lack of drivers for Linux? Did I wake up in 1996?

by nly 10y ago

pjmlp 10y ago
No if using desktops, now laptops....
- nly 10y ago
  Ok, so 2006 then. I've had 3 laptops over 4 years and never had a single issue. You ancedotal is just as good as mine.
  - arcticfox 10y ago
    It's not anecdotal that support for Linux on some hardware is god awful compared to Windows. If you want a source, I followed this 20-page guide to installing Ubuntu on my SP3 and I still have issues. I had to buy a wired mouse because the Bluetooth drivers are terrible. The networking driver only initiates correctly 50% of the time. I understand that is also anecdotal, but the fact that this guide exists is not -> http://blog.davidelner.com/dual-booting-ubuntu-14-10-on-the-surface-pro-3/ http://blog.davidelner.com/dual-booting-ubuntu-14-10-on-the-...
  - WayneBro 10y ago
    Your anecodote is not good because it doesn't jive with a very high volume of other anecdotes that can be seen on the Internet. So maybe take a look around? Anyway, for my own anecdote - I have a five year old Dell XPS L502X that has an Optimus style video card in it - Windows 7, 8 and 10 run beautifully on it with no drivers problems. Meanwhile, any Linux distro I've tried to install directly on the hardware just barfs itself.
  - pjmlp 10y ago
    So you want another anecodote? An Asus Eeebook bought with Ubuntu pre-installed in 2012, everything should work out of the box, right? Actually no, from the time I bought it until the wlan driver worked properly took around 6 months. I just kept it and constrained myself to LAN during those months instead of returning the laptop, because I wanted to somehow support GNU/Linux on laptops.
  - electricEmu 10y ago
    My Dell XPS 13.The high resolution screen and touchscreen have issues. Keyboard still takes fiddling. It's a Linux supported laptop that ships with Ubuntu on the lower definition screen. So yeah, driver support. It still sucks, just not as bad as 96. Honestly, I remember it better in 96 since the hardware was simpler you could usually get everything to kind of work.

Lack of drivers for Linux? Did I wake up in 1996?

by nly 10y ago

Lack of drivers for Linux? Did I wake up in 1996?

pjmlp 10y ago

No if using desktops, now laptops....

nly 10y ago
Ok, so 2006 then. I've had 3 laptops over 4 years and never had a single issue. You ancedotal is just as good as mine.
- arcticfox 10y ago
  It's not anecdotal that support for Linux on some hardware is god awful compared to Windows. If you want a source, I followed this 20-page guide to installing Ubuntu on my SP3 and I still have issues. I had to buy a wired mouse because the Bluetooth drivers are terrible. The networking driver only initiates correctly 50% of the time. I understand that is also anecdotal, but the fact that this guide exists is not -> http://blog.davidelner.com/dual-booting-ubuntu-14-10-on-the-surface-pro-3/ http://blog.davidelner.com/dual-booting-ubuntu-14-10-on-the-...
- WayneBro 10y ago
  Your anecodote is not good because it doesn't jive with a very high volume of other anecdotes that can be seen on the Internet. So maybe take a look around? Anyway, for my own anecdote - I have a five year old Dell XPS L502X that has an Optimus style video card in it - Windows 7, 8 and 10 run beautifully on it with no drivers problems. Meanwhile, any Linux distro I've tried to install directly on the hardware just barfs itself.
- pjmlp 10y ago
  So you want another anecodote? An Asus Eeebook bought with Ubuntu pre-installed in 2012, everything should work out of the box, right? Actually no, from the time I bought it until the wlan driver worked properly took around 6 months. I just kept it and constrained myself to LAN during those months instead of returning the laptop, because I wanted to somehow support GNU/Linux on laptops.
- electricEmu 10y ago
  My Dell XPS 13.The high resolution screen and touchscreen have issues. Keyboard still takes fiddling. It's a Linux supported laptop that ships with Ubuntu on the lower definition screen. So yeah, driver support. It still sucks, just not as bad as 96. Honestly, I remember it better in 96 since the hardware was simpler you could usually get everything to kind of work.