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Not sure about the stability. I am using Ubuntu for over a year and it's way less stable than Windows was. Sometimes I encounter crashes when suspending or waki

by Scea91 10y ago

Not sure about the stability. I am using Ubuntu for over a year and it's way less stable than Windows was. Sometimes I encounter crashes when suspending or waking up. I also encounter lots of minor problems. For me the Windows experience was definitely more polished. Is Elementary OS significantly different?

izacus 10y ago
eOS uses Ubuntus core, so if your hardware isn't compatible with Linux, it's not going to be better in that regard.
digi_owl 10y ago
Likely the big reason there is that hardware manufacturers test for Windows and write drivers for Windows. Damn it, there is at least one documented case of a motherboard giving a junk ACPI return if the OS identified itself as anything other than Windows.
- aidenn0 10y ago
  While hardware manufacturers testing on windows does explain a lot, don't discount the massive amount of work MS put into making windows work on flaky hardware. They really do (or at least did) seem to have the mentality of "we will be blamed if it doesn't work, so bend over backwards to make things work"
eikenberry 10y ago
If you ever feel like giving it a try again do it with a computer that is known to work well. While Linux will run on lots of random PC hardware, its support is not consistent across all hardware. The easiest way to do this is to buy from a company who sells Linux based systems. One of the biggest problems in the Linux ecosystem is the lack of any good source on hardware compatibility tracking.
Skunkleton 10y ago
Generally the less like a server your computer is, the less nice the driver support. I have a Xeon workstation with a nvidia quatro graphics card at work and it has been rock solid for years. The same cannot be said of my laptop.
reachtarunhere 10y ago
Stability largely depends on your hardware. I would not expect one linux distribution to run better than other in most cases. Especially not here given Elementary is based on Ubuntu.

by Scea91 10y ago

izacus 10y ago

eOS uses Ubuntus core, so if your hardware isn't compatible with Linux, it's not going to be better in that regard.

digi_owl 10y ago

Likely the big reason there is that hardware manufacturers test for Windows and write drivers for Windows. Damn it, there is at least one documented case of a motherboard giving a junk ACPI return if the OS identified itself as anything other than Windows.

aidenn0 10y ago
While hardware manufacturers testing on windows does explain a lot, don't discount the massive amount of work MS put into making windows work on flaky hardware. They really do (or at least did) seem to have the mentality of "we will be blamed if it doesn't work, so bend over backwards to make things work"

eikenberry 10y ago

If you ever feel like giving it a try again do it with a computer that is known to work well. While Linux will run on lots of random PC hardware, its support is not consistent across all hardware. The easiest way to do this is to buy from a company who sells Linux based systems. One of the biggest problems in the Linux ecosystem is the lack of any good source on hardware compatibility tracking.

Skunkleton 10y ago

Generally the less like a server your computer is, the less nice the driver support. I have a Xeon workstation with a nvidia quatro graphics card at work and it has been rock solid for years. The same cannot be said of my laptop.

reachtarunhere 10y ago

Stability largely depends on your hardware. I would not expect one linux distribution to run better than other in most cases. Especially not here given Elementary is based on Ubuntu.