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. .
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.
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.
This meme is 15 years late.
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.
Ehm… I’m a debian unstable user since 2012 and i have never had a driver issue… am I doing somwthing wrong?
Are you using nvidia or broadcom? Cause Mint 22 hates my Intel Wi-Fi card.
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.
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.
Linux does have plenty issues.
But in the Netherlands, you can cycle without worrying much about carsIf the Netherlands was a linux distro, what would it be
Ubuntu with all the additional servers and quality of life features enabled. But no firewall, and it somehow runs from a ramdisk.
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 packagebami -opeten <pakket> # Uninstall a packagebami -doorroeren # Update all installed packagesbami -keuken <pakket> # List available packagesbami -smaaktest # Check the details of a packagebami -restanten # Clean up orphaned or unused packagesProcess management:
vla -aanzet # Start a new processvla -proeven # Check the status of a process
I see you’ve cracked all that Lemmy loves
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.
Only the proprietary nvidia ones.
Nvidia hardware?? In my linux box???
Works pretty well these days.
Wayland works?
LOL
tries to click steam sub-menu
cries
I replaced my 2060 with Intel ARC just because of the bad Nvidia drivers lol. Only thing I miss is cuda for using Meshroom but I can use other programs.
Have you used Linux in the past ten years?
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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.
And one oft them has helpful manuals, forums and possibly a wiki that can help.
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.Other than some specialized hardware, Nvidia GPUs are the one big issue.
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.
installing gpu drivers takes 1 command in the terminal on Ubuntu
Can be done through the GUI since 20.04 at least, don’t even have to open the terminal l.
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.
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.
I’ve had Ubuntu and the graphics, Wi-Fi, and resume from sleep drivers have all been sticking points
I’m an arch user.
NixOS is cooler.
*btw.
*Bikes trikes and wheelies
what gpu do you use? have you never struggled with any drivers or their updates?
Ah, sorry, I am not actually an arch Linux user - there’s a meme on lemmy about how arch users can’t shut up about being arch users.
Could add a third arm for motorcycle riders!
And a fourth for shit-quality screw heads
What? It’s hard to hear anything with all that noise.
To be fair I’ve never seen Linux cut between cars in standstill traffic while going twice the speed limit
buses are, unfortunately, horribly inefficient commuting vehicles, they take up almost as much space as three cars and yet only can fit one driver.
Yes, but the driver is paid to drive the.bus. Do YOU get paid to drive your own car?
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