• Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    everyone knows, it’s just disregarded most of the time because it’s not a supported use case

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      9 months ago

      It’ll be a sad day when the other foot drops. I like Linux but I understand it’s not for everyone.

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        9 months ago

        I find it annoying that the community pretends otherwise.

        Someone goes on a forum with their laptop with an nvidia card and a wifi card no one’s ever heard of, and more likely than not he’ll be told it’ll be easy to get linux running on it.

        Hell, I was wrong. It’s not just that a lot of linux users don’t know much about windows, they also don’t seem to know about the issues people can face with linux on some less or non-compatible hardware.

        You can be a linux fan and admit that companies like Nvidia, Realtek or HP don’t give much of a shit about linux, but some pretend otherwise.

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          9 months ago

          Idk, I had issues on Wayland with Nvidia and switching back to xorg works fine. About the only thing wrong was a lot of screen tearing in games after a driver update.

          The live environment is for testing your hardware and trying things out. You’d be surprised how many things do work and you don’t need to nuke your system to find out. If it doesn’t work you just reboot and everything is back to normal.

          Also I don’t even bother with figuring out printers on Linux. I’m almost certain they all universally work, some sort of Unix black magic if you ask me.

          If your a Windows fan that fine but don’t pretend we don’t try to make it easy.