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I don't think most windows users would be amazed - or, at least, not in a positive way. I think they'd find most of their applications would not work, or they'd

I don't think most windows users would be amazed - or, at least, not in a positive way. I think they'd find most of their applications would not work, or they'd have to jump through hoops to get them to work at 90%. I think they'd find support for their machines scattered, incomplete, or out of date. This is assuming they're able to get their hardware to work at all under linux - you seem to be placing the blame on the hardware to support the software, instead of on linux to have decent hardware drivers. I'd think they'd be surprised by the entire appearance of the UI changing drastically between updates. I think any users using assistive technologies would be woefully underserved.

yorwba 9y ago
For Linux to have decent hardware drivers, the hardware manufacturers have to make enough information available to create the drivers. Unfortunately, they often don't do that, and only publish a Windows driver as a binary blob. Even if the manufacturer does make Linux drivers available, they frequently don't actually work with the hardware. For example, the wireless card in my laptop only has one of two antennas and the default Linux driver tries to use the wrong one. The Windows driver somehow works around that, but on Linux I'm dependent on the work of one amazing guy who makes the driver actually work: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new
- vetinari 9y ago
  I know this is the question you don't want to hear, but: why didn't you switch the antenna? The card has rp-sma pigtail connectors and usually you have two/three antennas connected to them. If you have only one, and the driver uses the other, just connect the antenna to the other connector.