I just didn’t like the complexity to get in house game streaming to work. Moonlight/sunshine should work. But I also wanna be able to just remote my entire desktop. Do much easier on windows still.
There are much more devices and peripherals available for windows.
Linux fanboi cringe is the worst of all cringe
This seems very niche for L/memes !
What on earth are you guys doing having to search the internet for drivers for Linux??? You not buy things that have Linux support advertised? Not looking for good reviews by other Linux users?
I once needed the driver to use “Floppy Streamers” under Linux. That is plain impossible with Windows. For Linux it just meant to recompile the kernel-module each time you updated the kernel which basically was “make && make install”. Then at accessing /dev/qic-nst0 I had a Floppy Streamer.
Yes, sometimes you need drivers under Linux. But it is VERY rare.
DKMS is what you want rather than do it manually.
This meme honestly seems like it takes place in the '90s. Cause back then you really did have to hunt to find drivers for Linux. Or cobble together your own using spare code.
The original meme had a Bible, so you can guess the rest of the comic
Correction: I doubt anyone can guess the rest of the comic, that’s how out there it is
I’m quite familiar with the original comic as well as the author of the original comic and his various… proclivities.
I was referring to the necromanced comic spawned from it that was posted here.
Yeah, with the exception of some network printers and surely some other corner case I’m not thinking of now (is broadcom/realtek wifi still a problem?) - drivers are generally already there or don’t exist.
Having said that, I remember in my early days fully not comprehending that manual driver installs were generally not a thing with Linux.
Printers these days tend to be driverless, so that’s pretty much a solved problem.
Manjaro on my 2 year old build detected my network printer and installed it driverless - and I’ve never had a problem. On my more recent build (different system) it sees it, but always gives “unable to locate printer” when I try to actually print. I haven’t cared enough to troubleshoot it further, but I did install the applicable drivers from the AUR to see if that helped, and it did not.
So my current experience is pretty mixed, but at one point it was flawless, and I have no doubt it’s flawless for plenty others.
Regardless I literally can’t remember having to even think about drivers for any other bit of hardware in at least the last ten years, so (as someone who supports Windows at work) I still think Linux wins on the driver front hands down.
Printers should probably be connected by USB for security reasons anyway.
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I can’t get over how thin her molars are.
The only driver I ever needed was the Brother laser printer ones which are well documented. Fedora btw, m’linux.
Funny timing, considering I’m for the first time having trouble getting a TP-Link AC600 working on a Mint install.
How do you recognize a Linux user?
You don’t. They’ll tell you at the first opportunity.
I’ve blocked every Linux community I can find and I still can’t get away from it
Thankfully Garuda takes care of all of this because I’m a moron. Would recommend for noobs.
Thx, will look into it.
Only problem is it runs pretty heavy as it focuses on being a modern distro for gaming.
Nah, it’s literally just Arch Linux with the tweaked Linux zen-kernel, a crap ton of eye candy and a few GUI tools.
You could use the zen-kernel on a plain Arch base add their GUI tools (likely just by adding their repo topacman.conf) and likely achieve better results/performance because you’re not using resources on the flashy desktop effects and background processes instead having more available for the game.
Better yet, you could start with Garuda and strip it down and disable much of the resource heavy effects and achieve the same thing more or less.I like that it takes automatic backups of my important stuff with btrfs because I’m too lazy to do it myself. I think that’s the main reason it runs heavier. Probably better to do it your way if you know what you’re doing.
No, it has nothing to do with BTRFS.
BTRFS is barely slower than EXT4; you wouldn’t even notice the difference.
I use BTRFS on Arch with a plain KDE plasma desktop and it has no such slowdown experienced with the Garuda equivalent.
I believe it’s because they enable a bunch of resource heavy effects, such as wobbly windows and have a few extra background processes; things not enabled or included in a plain Arch install by default.Thanks for the info.
When windows irritates me enough to switch main system will check this out. Thanks.
Put mint on an old laptop for a secondary work computer. Was impressed with how dummy proof it was. Will keep Garuda in mind.
that’s a big lol, Ubuntu has given me tons of driver problems, and it’s only gotten worse since 2010. there really needs to be an option to download an extra-bloated ISO with every possible WiFi driver included. if the WiFi doesn’t work, how the hell am I supposed to download the driver?? (rhetorical question) not to mention, the loss of easily installable VMware Tools included with VMware Player / Workstation / vCenter makes it way harder to configure VMs. that last bit isn’t Linux’s fault, it’s VMware being stupid, but is absolutely a barrier to testing out new distros
The last panel is wrong. It should read “then stop buying shit hardware!”
Having said that, the last windows upgrade I did for someone - honestly, it was a hardware swap and data copy - also included new printers, webcam (webcam!) and wireless mouse because win10 was like “yeah, fuck you, we hate hardware more than 2 years old and we dropped support, so go get new stuff, Skippy.”
So it happens with linux or windows, but for different reasons.
So the old mouse didn’t work in Win 10? I find that hard to believe.
What kind of special ass(-)mouse was that?
I mean, I still have to make sure my driver’s are up to date because Windows doesn’t always have the latest version available in WSUS. I honestly would be on Ubuntu right now if I didn’t play so many games.
Computers aren’t for games!
Then what are for games?
Consoles.
Ha good one.
For a lot of games its pretty plug and play. I’ve only had like 2 games I went to play not work by installing on steam and clicking play personally.
Let the manufacturer know they need to update their driver’s when you find new ones. They should be doing that automatically or they may have a reason they aren’t pushing them to windows update
