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The appeal of the Linux desktop for the majority of people is that it runs chrome or Firefox just fine and is pretty much secure if you do your updates. That's
by herbst 3y ago
The appeal of the Linux desktop for the majority of people is that it runs chrome or Firefox just fine and is pretty much secure if you do your updates. That's how the majority of people use their computers. The underlaying OS is irrelevant as long as its not actively nagging it's users.
- pjmlp 3y agoThey better not try to enjoy YouTube though.
- herbst 3y agoHuh? Any issues with YouTube on Linux?
- pjmlp 3y agoDepends on how lucky one feels getting VAAPI to work with their open source driver.
- herbst 3y agoYou don't have to use open source drivers. I only use them with intel CPU graphics where they work great IMO. AMD and Nvidia ship drivers, most distros somehow pack them. No issue there.
- pjmlp 3y agoI know, that it the usual answer since I started with Slackware Linux in 1995, it always work for someone else.
- herbst 3y agoWe don't have to go into details but I really wonder what kind of bad experience you had. I use Linux for ~20 years now and literally wasted weeks getting graphics to work the way I want. I know all about these pains. However this was a long time ago. OS drivers were shit, official drivers horrible to install and maintain. Today all end customer facing Linux flavours feature a button do directly enable proprietary drivers on installs and just have them updated and maintained in your update routine. There is literally zero friction other than a checkbox in the installer for a majority of setups.
- pjmlp 3y agoNow try that on a random laptop with dedicated GPU. It isn't as if I never used any other distribution since 1995, in fact I probably have used more in numeric value than the average age of HNers, just to use a random metric. Hence why my Linux based media devices nowadays are Android and WebOS powered instead, I leave GNU/Linux for servers.