Hmm, I dunno maybe because of the elitist community, or the massively fractured distro ecosystem where everyone suggests a different entry point with zero meaningful consensus, or the sporadic driver availability that makes using a laptop GPU an exercise in suffering?
Or all of the above? Probably that last one.
I’m an IT professional with 3 decades of experience, including admin work on linux and unix boxes, and I’ve been repeatedly trying to go Linux as my daily driver for 15 years and so far every time I have tried it has stalled out in screaming bloody frustration.
And EVERY time I make a post like this, some yahoo comes along and says something like ‘Well acktshually GPU support is so much better now why don’t you just code your own driver oh you haven’t spent 5 years memorizing these 2000 tech references well I can’t help you if you don’t want to learn’
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Hm, also an IT professional with over 2 decades of experience. Most of your points were true except GPU shit is easy now. I’ve been daily driving arch for the past 9 years, and gaming on it. It’s not perfect but it works well. Even some games work better in it. There are certain software categories that will be problematic, such as CAD, but you can do most anything else easily enough. For 80% of the population that needs it’s for some games and just a web browser it works fucking great. It’s been an awesome web browser OS since forever too. Most people just use what comes with their computer and don’t want to figure out how to install something. Most people are used to a thing and they don’t like change.
mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ok, well, I was planning on trying again in a few months, as is my yearly ritual.
If you are fucking with me and I end up stuck because whatever the fuck distro I picked out of a hat doesn’t like my northbridge firmware, I will come back and in painful detail explain just how wrong you are.
I’m pretty sure a fucktonne of people are eager to jump ship from windows, but the fact that linux (os and community) is still user hostile is a stronger motivation for them stay with their abusive proprietary binaries.
I know for a fact that is the case with me.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 9 months ago
I’m pretty sure the Linux community is user hostile? Because in this thread, your comments come up as overly combative and dismissive, like inviting people to pick a fight with you.
mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well maybe that’s what happens when you try and get support from a community for two decades and get nothing but arrogance and elitism.