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Upgrading Windows from 7 to 10 caused s lot of older devices to stop working for a lot of people, despite the stable ABI; in most cases, it was just driver unav
by beagle3 8y ago
Upgrading Windows from 7 to 10 caused s lot of older devices to stop working for a lot of people, despite the stable ABI; in most cases, it was just driver unavailability and not incompatibility, but that’s a distinction without a difference for most users.
Linux just keeps on working with old devices across distributions and updates.
Linux takes 6m-24m till vendor unsupported drivers stabilize - but at that point, it works way better than windows (and basically forever) in my experience.
- pjmlp 8y agoThat is simply not true. Old drivers get shaved out of the kernel tree and good luck getting them to work again in more modern kernel versions.
- beagle3 8y agoI am sure they are, as was the i386. And yet, from experience of ~20 people, none had hardware obsoleted by Ubuntu, even very old hardware - though some had hardware obsoleted by win10 (which was in some cases the trigger to try Ubuntu)
- pjmlp 8y agoTell that to my AMD card, which no longer has the same OpenGL support level as before they decided to reboot the Radeon drivers. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/ubuntu-drops-amd-catalyst-fglrx-driver-16-04 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/ubuntu-drops-amd-catalys... Sure, maybe I can take some weekends off to port the missing features to new kernels....