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I first started using linux in 1998 with RedHat 5.2, installed from a CD off a magazine. At almost any point in my time using linux there was something "tempor
by ido 8y ago
I first started using linux in 1998 with RedHat 5.2, installed from a CD off a magazine.
At almost any point in my time using linux there was something "temporarily broken" that would eventually get fixed/improve some time down the road (modems, sound cards, wifi, power-management modes, GPUs, etc), at which point it didn't take long for something new to break.
There are of course those calm eras of peace in between but anecdotally it never seemed to last long until the next nuisance.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoHa, I started with Slackware around the same time (downloaded over 2 days to about 10 floppies). When I got bored of fixing stuff I moved to Ubuntu. It pretty much just works now except when I break it (which is often). Point being I could just install and run with zero issues.
- ido 8y agoyes it's not as bad as it used to be, but installing ubuntu on any random laptop (i.e. not one bought specifically because it's known to be well supported by linux) is still a crapshoot of at least something minor not working 100% (like a touch screen or some other "weird" feature). It is rarely something truly fundamental but it happened just often enough for me not to want to bother and just pay 2x for a MacBook Pro every 5 years (a trivial expense for a well-compensated software developer).