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Absolutely spot on. If only there was a way to pay money and then get printers / scanners / Bluetooth / wifi working properly on Linux, I'd definitely be doing

Absolutely spot on. If only there was a way to pay money and then get printers / scanners / Bluetooth / wifi working properly on Linux, I'd definitely be doing that.

Gordonjcp 4y ago
> get printers / scanners / Bluetooth / wifi working properly on Linux Use a distro released some time in the last 20 years?
- ugjka 4y ago
  There are still a lot of wireless chipsets out there that suck ASS. If you want to get good support, just get whatever hardware most kernel developers use
  - Gordonjcp 4y ago
    I learnt my lesson 20 years ago when WiFi was a thing at first, that if you buy cheap crappy no-name WiFi cards, nothing is going to support them right, not even the manufacturer's drivers.
matkoniecz 4y ago
At this point printers and wifi work more reliably on Linux, at least in my experience. And wifi troubleshooting at Windows is basically impossible.
- doodlesdev 4y ago
  Bluetooth is still the one missing though, specially for audio. I'm not going back to Windows though, no matter what.
  - rolenthedeep 4y ago
    Bluetooth on Linux works better than windows. Windows' Bluetooth implementation is the worst on the market, by a lot. Bluetooth really does work flawlessly on Linux. I've even got a few cheap and nasty Chinese Bluetooth adapters that don't work on windows, but work fine under Linux.
  - matkoniecz 4y ago
    I am not using bluetooth so I have not commented on it.
drekipus 4y ago
I also use Ubuntu and have no problems with printers and scanners and bluetooth. As annoying as Ubuntu is it does work out of the box for everything I've thrown at it
rolenthedeep 4y ago
Bluetooth support on windows 10 is by far the worst of any operating system in the last decade. It's an absolute joke. Bluetooth and wifi honestly do "just work" these days. There are some old or weird radios that don't have good drivers, but that's a problem money will solve. Just buy a radio known to work. I can't say I've done much printing or scanning in the last few years, but it's basically fine these days. It's annoying as hell, but printers are always annoying, in any situation. All of these were common problems several years ago, but they're pretty much solved these days. The real sticking point now is GPU drivers, and less commonly audio drivers. Linux is generally quite usable for a large number of people these days.

Absolutely spot on. If only there was a way to pay money and then get printers / scanners / Bluetooth / wifi working properly on Linux, I'd definitely be doing that.

Gordonjcp 4y ago

> get printers / scanners / Bluetooth / wifi working properly on Linux Use a distro released some time in the last 20 years?

ugjka 4y ago
There are still a lot of wireless chipsets out there that suck ASS. If you want to get good support, just get whatever hardware most kernel developers use
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  I learnt my lesson 20 years ago when WiFi was a thing at first, that if you buy cheap crappy no-name WiFi cards, nothing is going to support them right, not even the manufacturer's drivers.

matkoniecz 4y ago

At this point printers and wifi work more reliably on Linux, at least in my experience. And wifi troubleshooting at Windows is basically impossible.

doodlesdev 4y ago
Bluetooth is still the one missing though, specially for audio. I'm not going back to Windows though, no matter what.
- rolenthedeep 4y ago
  Bluetooth on Linux works better than windows. Windows' Bluetooth implementation is the worst on the market, by a lot. Bluetooth really does work flawlessly on Linux. I've even got a few cheap and nasty Chinese Bluetooth adapters that don't work on windows, but work fine under Linux.
- matkoniecz 4y ago
  I am not using bluetooth so I have not commented on it.

drekipus 4y ago

I also use Ubuntu and have no problems with printers and scanners and bluetooth. As annoying as Ubuntu is it does work out of the box for everything I've thrown at it

rolenthedeep 4y ago

Bluetooth support on windows 10 is by far the worst of any operating system in the last decade. It's an absolute joke. Bluetooth and wifi honestly do "just work" these days. There are some old or weird radios that don't have good drivers, but that's a problem money will solve. Just buy a radio known to work. I can't say I've done much printing or scanning in the last few years, but it's basically fine these days. It's annoying as hell, but printers are always annoying, in any situation. All of these were common problems several years ago, but they're pretty much solved these days. The real sticking point now is GPU drivers, and less commonly audio drivers. Linux is generally quite usable for a large number of people these days.