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Windows users don't have to reverse engineer anything before their hardware works.
by coryrc 4y ago
Windows users don't have to reverse engineer anything before their hardware works.
- pessimizer 4y agoNo shit. The hardware vendors do all the work for them.
- __turbobrew__ 4y agoUsers don’t care who did the work, they only care if the device functions or not.
- encryptluks2 4y ago
- pxmpxm 4y ago2022 YOLD right there
- autoexec 4y agothat's because new hardware is made to work for windows. Few companies care about linux drivers
- encryptluks2 4y agoAlmost any hardware you get today will have standard components with Linux support. Can you give some more examples of which companies and what components you're referring to?
- autoexec 4y agoThere's a long list of devices that have problems with linux. The hardware I think I've seen the most complaints about are wifi/ethernet chipsets, printers/scanners, and spotty support for specific features like sensors, LED lights, and fan/cooling controls. Problems with video cards are far less common now than they used to be but I still see people having weird issues from time to time and sadly most of the firmware still contains closed source binary blobs.
- Gigachad 4y agoRGB control is quite spotty. Finger print readers are almost entirely non functioning. Often webcams on brand new laptops do not work. Brightness control for OLED often doesn't work. Suspend and sleep still seems to be an issue, especially with something relating to "modern sleep" where the OS remains functional for things like internet access while sleeping. I think largely these days people just plug less stuff in, printers, scanners, other odd gadgets are less common so its really just USB mass storage devices and video outputs getting physically plugged in. Otherwise everything else is controlled over wifi with a phone app.
- forgotpwd16 4y ago>before their hardware works Linux users don't have to either. (Linux devs do.) Another thing they don't have to do is searching vendor site for drivers which may not even be installed correctly.
- int_19h 4y agoIt's very rare to have to search for drivers these days on Windows. Last time I had to do so a few years ago, it was for an old IrDA receiver - and I doubt many people these days even know what that is.