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Very trollish. The second such article I have seen recently on the HN front page. What does "not ready for the desktop" even mean? Its been ready for MY deskto
by graemep 2y ago
Very trollish. The second such article I have seen recently on the HN front page.
What does "not ready for the desktop" even mean? Its been ready for MY desktop for over 20 years. Points 1,2,3 and 4 are pretty much wrong. Point 5 is a problem for other OSes too (there are bugs in applications!), point 6 is only relevant if you have particular hardware you want to work with Linux, and point 7 is not my experience.
- wazoox 2y agoHardware support is so much better in Linux it's not even funny. I mean you can't even install windows server on most PCs because there aren't any drivers ! This trolling is beyond ridiculous.
- sombragris 2y agoSeconded. Back in 2015 I got a Toshiba Satellite Radius convertible laptop. X11 ran there even with touchscreen support. Plus, USB3 ran smoothly. Now I'm using a Dell, and again, full hardware support with zero issues using Wayland and Pipewire. And I use Slackware, not exactly a sophisticated distro, but one that just offers upstream software with no modification.
- wazoox 2y agoAnd don't forget all of the devices that become obsolete under windows and still "just work" with Linux, like old scanners, printers, cards and adapters of all kinds.