Yes, Linux is not perfect, but it has a much stronger community than windows which helps, and it’s improving and growing every day. You won’t face any corporate bullshit(unless you use Ubuntu), but you might have issues with hardware support, etc. There is no perfect operating system unfortunately.
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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoI also run Linux and let me tell you, you’re still dealing with a ton of bullshit. I never had to spend tens of hours to try and find the version of Windows on which I am able to get my hardware running properly only to have to trust some stranger telling me to install some home made driver to finally get everything working properly.
potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 3 weeks ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I love how people keep claiming this whilst in reality most of the time, most of the hardware is so supported out of the box that you literally forget that something like a driver is even needed. Linux supports a metric frack tonne of hardware right out of the box, contrary to windows.
That goes without saying that installing most distros of Linux takes a good 20 minutes where as my last windows 11 install tool 7 hours split over various days (ok the exact same computer) to figure out all the issues and get it to work properly
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
“people keep claiming this but it’s not true!”
Fucking hell buddy, I’m running Mint 22, that was released in late July, that means I’m talking about my own experience from less than a month ago. Bazzite was shitting the bed for my GPU with no one having experienced the same thing (display signal cutting off whenever there was a load on the GPU) and on Mint my wifi usb adapter that is supposed to work out of the box as of kernel 6.2 (from February… Last year!) would drop connection after 5 minutes if it worked at all after waking from suspend.
In the end I had to install a homebrewed driver and block the one used by default. You know when I don’t have to do any of that? When I install Windows.
If it took you 7h to install Windows then honestly you were doing something wrong.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, that’s totally another type of bs… but having to pick between MS bs and my own bs for not properly picking my hardware i prefer to stay on linux.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
“not properly picking my hardware”
So… Perfectly average AMD hardware that works correctly with Mint but not with Bazzite is a me problem?