• ealoe@ani.socialEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Linux users who haven’t had a driver issue have simply gotten lucky but they confuse this result with technical skill. Sometimes your hardware works fine, sometimes it isn’t supported. Unless you’re writing the drivers yourself you didn’t fix the problem you merely avoided it by happenstance.

    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      381·
      2 days ago

      I think Linux and Windows are kind of level on this nowadays. Most of the time it just automatically works but then it’s a headache when something doesn’t.

      • Ziglin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        And one oft them has helpful manuals, forums and possibly a wiki that can help.

      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        Can’t hear you over the sound of my gpu fans spinning at mach 3 to cool my nvidia gpu running the Silent Hill 2 remake on linux with wayland. I use arch btw.

      • deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        This is the single issue that has kept me away from Linux for the past 15 or so years. I always get to the “install GPU drivers” step, completely fuck it up somehow, read things online for a few hours, get frustrated, and return to Windows/macOS until I try the experiment again in another 3-5 years. I’m about due to give it another shot.

        • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          Its only if you want the absolute latest drivers at this point. Most distros come with somewhat recent but very stable graphics drivers pre packaged now. Generally its still much nicer with amd gpus tho.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I’ve had Ubuntu and the graphics, Wi-Fi, and resume from sleep drivers have all been sticking points

    • Kuinox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      73·
      2 days ago

      Yes, on my laptop, wifi wasn’t working.
      Trackpad didn’t worked out of the box.
      On 2 different desktop, IPv6 DHCP wasn’t working on both debian and centos.

    • jerkfaceEnglish
      73·
      2 days ago

      I’m currently dealing with a regression on my laptop introduced a few months ago in a recent kernel update, where closing the lid kills the keyboard until you reboot.

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 days ago

    I haven’t had a single driver issue in 10 years If anything I have had less. Linux currently has exactly two problems:

    1. Compatibility.
    2. distribution fragmentation.
  • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    1 day ago

    Ehm… I’m a debian unstable user since 2012 and i have never had a driver issue… am I doing somwthing wrong?

      • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I may have been lucky.

        My first video cards where pretty old for the time in which i used them: Ge 2 Mx400, intel family HD 2500, Rx 570. Now im running with Rx 6750 xt and vega 8 on my laptop (I think).

        Wifi cards, i really dont remember cause i have never experienced visible or obvious problems. I’ll check and update later.

        With my bluetooth i had an odd experience cause i never got it to run even on windows (first laptop) but eventually started working on linux after a debian clean installation +5 years later. Had some problems with a bluetooth dongle that pretty much solved themselves once i got the proper kernel update.

        Edit: Ge 2 was running on bumblebee… I once tried to run it on the official drivers. It worked, but fucked everything in a funny way.

        • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Man…if I resume from suspend on most distros of Ubuntu, mint, Debian, the WiFi just never comes back on. I resulted in just shutdown on laptop lid close to deal with it. No sense in closing the lid unless I’m done anyways

  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
    26·
    2 days ago

    This is totally wrong for most users I think. On Windows I had to worry about drivers. On Linux I never think about it. They just come with kernel updates and I never have to put any thought into it.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      HP does not even have a driver for my printer on their website anymore and it’s not just working ootb either. On windows that is. Of course it just works on linux.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Literally was a school bus driver for a few months. Quit because it was too stressful dealing with all them kids at the same time as driving a big ass vehicle. Still got a Class A and can legally drive pretty much anything on wheels that isn’t carrying chemical or biological hazards, if any trucking companies paid well enough.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    Cycling these days has gotten much easier. You can even sleep in and skip breakfast; once out on your ride you can get food from the universal cereal bus.

      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Hi Susie! 🥰 Your mom also says hi and reminds you not to RAM any drivers on your pizza run or your stack might overflow.

        Did you get the linter we sent for your birthday? Auntie Linu says you can use it when you compile your route to spot red flags.

  • trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    27·
    2 days ago

    The only time I ever have to even think about drivers is when I’m cursed with something from work that has to be written for, or done in Windows. Drivers on Linux are great if you don’t need something like an obscure piece of hardware, and even then, your odds are probably better than on Windows. .

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.comEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Linux does have plenty issues.
    But in the Netherlands, you can cycle without worrying much about cars

      • Boomkop3@reddthat.comEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        Ubuntu with all the additional servers and quality of life features enabled. But no firewall, and it somehow runs from a ramdisk.

        • udon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Here are some of the tools, with input from the GPT (90% was not funny, these might be but I don’t speak Dutch).

          Package management:

          bami -opdienen <pakket> # Install a package

          bami -opeten <pakket> # Uninstall a package

          bami -doorroeren # Update all installed packages

          bami -keuken <pakket> # List available packages

          bami -smaaktest # Check the details of a package

          bami -restanten # Clean up orphaned or unused packages

          Process management:

          vla -aanzet # Start a new process

          vla -proeven # Check the status of a process

  • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    24·
    2 days ago

    buses are, unfortunately, horribly inefficient commuting vehicles, they take up almost as much space as three cars and yet only can fit one driver.

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    Since everyone’s posting their anecdotes:

    I tried out Bazzite, a distro intended for gaming. Much of it was great, but often after coming back from sleep mode, the whole desktop would be suffering from graphical corruption; something I’d largely chalk up to bad drivers.

    And, somewhat ironically, I’m also a cyclist, who needs to plan out winter trips when it’s often going to be dark and people are drunk.