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I also have been using Linux for over 20 years and I agree that hardware support is the most noticable. This year I have installed Linux Mint on computers from
by bdhdhduuyd 27d ago
I also have been using Linux for over 20 years and I agree that hardware support is the most noticable.
This year I have installed Linux Mint on computers from people who wanted to jump from Windows to Linux. Every time I booted via USB, installed Linux and 10 minutes later everything was working.
This would not have happened 10 years ago. Back then there would always be an issue with a video driver, WiFi driver or audio driver.
Of course there are still hardware issues for some special deviced, but today Linux just runs fine for most people. And that's a great accomplishment.
- hdgvhicv 27d agoI’ve seen people say that for 20 years
- 0points 27d ago> This would not have happened 10 years ago. Funny you say that, as I was installing Ubuntu on peoples laptops and it just worked, like 15 years ago... :-)
- mschuster91 27d agoOnly on a select combination of blessed components and BIOS/EFI not half-ass broken to the tune it only worked somewhat stable on Windows. Anything with split iGPU/dGPU was a mess no matter what and where, WiFi that was not Intel was a mess, suspend to ram and suspend to disk were a coin flip if the system would wake up again or if it would decide to wake up on its own and overheat itself to panic.
- kjs3 27d ago"I installed Ubuntu on peoples laptops and was extremely lucky they happened to have compatible hardware or didn't notice the stuff that didn't work and had a non-borked firmware". FTFY. This was absolutely not everyones experience, including mine.
- sscaryterry 26d agoThe most fun I ever had with a computer was as a 17-year old, installing gentoo on a P4 machine, over dialup, stage 2 tarball, custom kernel.