• @Katana314@lemmy.world
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    18 months 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.

  • 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.

  • @fl42v@lemmy.ml
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    78 months ago

    Me a few yeas back: cycling in the evening on the highway in black clothes while its raining. In hindsight, I’m shocked the only time I’ve got a concussion was while riding in the forest of all places.

    • @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      28 months ago

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

    • @Kuinox@lemmy.world
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      78 months 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.

    • @AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
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      408 months 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 (it/they)
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        78 months ago

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

      • @SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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        8 months 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.works
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        38 months 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.

    • Jerkface (any/all)
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      8 months 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.

  • trevor (he/they)
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    278 months 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. .

  • desktop_user [they/them]
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    8 months 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.

  • Boomkop3
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    88 months ago

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

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        8 months ago

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

        • udon
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          18 months 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

  • Cethin
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    268 months 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.org
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      38 months 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.

  • @ealoe@ani.social
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    67 months 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.

  • @stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    268 months 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.