Do people still have driver issues on Linux? What hardware are people using? I’ve been using Arch literally since it came out. I can’t remember the last time I had any concern that the laptop I bought would run Linux, …actually I do remember, I had a laptop with a modem that didn’t work right off the bat (or ever since it was 2008 and never tried to make it work).
Besides, some of the biggest windows laptop manufacturers make their laptops with ubuntu in mind already.
If there’s any genuine problem windows users could have with linux, it’s the lack of executable installers. Or rather, the fact you need to beg your computer to move files into the program directory instead of being able to do so yourself. That’s why i still have windows on my gaming pc (but ubuntu on my smaller laptop)
The fun part is… My printers are always recognized by Linux. Never by windows. I need to always download all kinds of stuff for windows.
Same thing for all of the other stuff in my computer. It’s already in my Linux kernel. For windows I have to search for simple things like sound drivers!!!
It’s more like new harware have drivers for the last winwdows directly but not always the case for linux and have to wait someone make one. But on old hardware it’s the reverse it’s already on linux but the windows one is no more compatible
Watch out that you don’t invoke the wrath of that one weirdo and his alt accounts that can’t handle more than 1 image, especially a comic in his memes. Man that freak gave me a good laugh yesterday.
Never once had a driver issue on Mint. Literally did an entire rebuild (mobo, cpu, gpu, the works). Switched it on, everything worked perfectly, no OS reinstall or driver hunting.
Any issues I’ve heard about, the main culprit is nvidia cause of proprietary crap. Move to AMD graphics and it’s literally plug and play.
Never had any problems, just avoid the biggest GPU manufacturer? It’s Nvidia’s fault to supply shit drivers for Linux, but statements like this highlight how far away we are from “the year of the Linux desktop”.
It changed around RDNA I think? They pushed a new driver stack that works on all FOSS software and then offer their proprietary driver as an optional firmware blob.
Since they open source kernel space driver uses the same interface for both you don’t get a degraded experience on either.
This new driver amdgpu (and amdpro) replaces radeon.
Ah, that’s good to know. I’ve dabbled around with different distributions on VMs but now I feel like it’s to convenient to just set up a new vm when I want to do something
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