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Not sure what hardware you are doing this on, but installing Fedora 40 on my mid-range gaming PC from 2022 last month got me flickering windows (it only ships w

by meibo 2y ago

Not sure what hardware you are doing this on, but installing Fedora 40 on my mid-range gaming PC from 2022 last month got me flickering windows (it only ships with a Wayland session) and broken sound out of the box. My screens still don't both turn on when I wake it up from sleep, if it does. If that is outside of "absurd" to you then the Linux desktop world clearly needs to keep cooking a little longer. My non-IT friends would not have been able to figure this out and I don't think they should have to.

vladvasiliu 2y ago
Up until a year or so ago, windows wouldn’t recognize the webcam of my hp-recommends-windows laptop. On a different laptop, it refused to output 4k@60 through the HP dock. After it started working, waking from sleep would be a coin toss whether I would get any image at all, or something garbled. I’m “IT” and had no idea how to fix these. Even installing all the provided oem drivers made no difference. A new development is Windows using the us English layout, although it’s not enabled. I have to add and remove it to fix it. Everything worked perfectly on Linux since day 1.
- sfn42 2y ago
  Sounds more like a HP issue than a Windows issue to me.
  - amlib 2y ago
    Windows machines have the benefit of official Windows support where the integrator worked out the kinks and built-in a bunch of hacks to fix whatever half-broken things the manufacturer cobbled together. Linux machines don't usually have such affordances, you just install it on a random _Windows_ machine and hope it works. It's actually amazing it works well 90% of the time.
  - vladvasiliu 2y ago
    How's it different from meibo's post? If the hardware is well supported by the OS, everything works fine. If it's not, you're gonna have a bad time. My point is that you can't say Xos is great because it works well on this particular hardware.

by meibo 2y ago

vladvasiliu 2y ago

Up until a year or so ago, windows wouldn’t recognize the webcam of my hp-recommends-windows laptop. On a different laptop, it refused to output 4k@60 through the HP dock. After it started working, waking from sleep would be a coin toss whether I would get any image at all, or something garbled. I’m “IT” and had no idea how to fix these. Even installing all the provided oem drivers made no difference. A new development is Windows using the us English layout, although it’s not enabled. I have to add and remove it to fix it. Everything worked perfectly on Linux since day 1.

sfn42 2y ago
Sounds more like a HP issue than a Windows issue to me.
- amlib 2y ago
  Windows machines have the benefit of official Windows support where the integrator worked out the kinks and built-in a bunch of hacks to fix whatever half-broken things the manufacturer cobbled together. Linux machines don't usually have such affordances, you just install it on a random _Windows_ machine and hope it works. It's actually amazing it works well 90% of the time.
- vladvasiliu 2y ago
  How's it different from meibo's post? If the hardware is well supported by the OS, everything works fine. If it's not, you're gonna have a bad time. My point is that you can't say Xos is great because it works well on this particular hardware.