• frankenswine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    you probably are doing it wrong ;)

    the problem is cutting edge devices where vendors only publish windows drivers - often friendly hackers have to develop their own drivers to make your stuff work. for users with such hardware the free software experience is often sub-par and they probably won’t try it anytime soon. but for everyone else, casual i-only-browse-text-and-watch-videos-on-my-rather-standard-build-users will usually find ad-free, smoothly running no-bullshit (or depending on the distro maybe little-bullshit) computing experience. it’s a shame hardware vendors are allowed to only publish drivers for windows.

    it’s one of the few cases where people with more expertise (i.e. you who builds your own machibe) get a less satisfying result. i’d suggest you try again with spare parts from your last build ;)

      • frankenswine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        top-level commenter says new machines, not all hardware you could possibly attach to whichever bus your mobo offers, but yeah

        downvote me again for pointing out that it’s hardware vendors duty to offer drivers for the OS of your choice not your duty to shit on some kernel for not supporting hardware you bought from (excuse my french) shitty vendors

        • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Dude, chill. It was a joke dunking on the idea that Linux is perfect that the top level was complaining about and which you weren’t defending, it was not a slam on you.

          And I was almost exactly quoting their quote, including “new hardware”, so I have no clue where you’re pulling that from.

          I didn’t downvote your first comment, but I would your reply if I could for being so off the rails