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linux has far better hardware support than windows

• thewebguyd 1y ago
  Especially for weird and obscure peripherals. Good chance you can plug something into a linux machine and it'll detect it and just work because someone way smarter than me also owns that device and got a driver for it mainlined into the kernel. On the Windows side of things, you can run into situations where you have really old specialized devices where the manufacturer is long gone, so the driver downloads don't exist anymore.
  • redeeman 1y ago
    or the driver comes with background apps implemented in electron requiring gigabytes of ram to just operate simple things.
  • pjmlp 1y ago
    Which doesn't guarantee there is some source code lying around that will work in the always breaking Linux kernel driver APIs, and if the user is not a coder, or unable to find someone that will bother to do the needfull for them, the outcome is hardly different.
    • redeeman 1y ago
      there are few garantuees in life. The drivers in the linux kernel work, as they are maintained with API changes. If some dont, you can report bugs that will be looked at. Also no garantuees that there isnt bugs in windows drivers. Good luck reporting bugs to same level
      • pjmlp 1y ago
        I have had as much luck with enough Linux drivers, using Linux since 1995. Including distributions killing drivers, because "no one uses them".