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this is another data point in my "year of the linux desktop"; linux is slowly becoming a decent option, not so much because of linux improving leaps and bounds,
by fifticon 19d ago
this is another data point in my "year of the linux desktop";
linux is slowly becoming a decent option, not so much
because of linux improving leaps and bounds,
so much as what happens on the windows side collapsing on its own.
10 years ago, I was used to that windows "of course"
would have drivers available for stuff.
- pizza234 19d agoDifficult to asses whether it's overall a good or bad thing, but operatively speaking, WSL basically makes any machine a working Linux machine. The year of the linux machine arrived :)
- pizza234 19d agoCan the downvoters elaborate? 1. WSL is effectively Linux. 2. Most importantly, Linux support is mediocre at best (I owned 10+ laptops) - for developers who don't want to pull their hair on hardware incompatibilities, or want to be bound to a small part of the laptops/desktop parts, it's either that, or a Windows-only machine. Fun (in a sad way) stuff: even the Ubuntu certification is a joke - Canonical is allowed to use customized versions of Ubuntu that they aren't required to release to the public; as a consequence, even hardware certified by Canonical as Ubuntu-compatible, can effectively be incompatible. I've been bitten by this twice.