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bySlashbotAgent ( 6477336 ) writes:
What does it mean when four articles(blogs) post glowing reviews of an OS that you've never ever heard of, despite having been neck deep in Linux for decades?
It means that CachyOS is spamming the fuck out of the blogs in an attempt at guerrilla marketing.
ll I can say is, stop trying to make CashyOS happen. It's not going to happen.
P.S. That shit looks like Windows XP, the Fisher Price OS FFS.
byAmiMoJo ( 196126 ) writes:
Even the blog posts admit it was a shit show. WiFi didn't work, had to jump through some hoops to get there. Their obscure distro will eventually be abandoned and they will have to do yet another wipe and reinstall.
Linux is fine if you are a tinkerer, or if you have some specific non-destop use for it. Otherwise, people who do real work use Windows. It sucks, but it's the truth, because Windows actually works and they don't waste half their time trying to fix whatever distro they chose.
byRightwingNutjob ( 1302813 ) writes:
I've got a pair Ubuntu laptops at home, a mix of Debian and paid-for redhat at work, and I have never experienced this alleged driver shitshow in 20 years. Even back in the 2000s when I was using gentoo my stuff still worked and it was average consumer machines, not crazy custom builds.
I've seen more windows boxes fubared up with missing drivers than I have Linux boxes.
byAmiMoJo ( 196126 ) writes:
Do you seriously expect us to believe that you have never had driver issues on Linux?
byjenningsthecat ( 1525947 ) writes:
Do you seriously expect us to believe that you have never had driver issues on Linux?
I've used Linux exclusively for more than 15 years now, and I can't remember the last time I had a driver issue.
Admittedly, my activities and software are pretty vanilla in nature. And I use Thinkpads almost exclusively, so driver issues are inherently rare. But I suspect that a fair number of Windows users are similar to me in those regards, in which case they would also be unlikely to have driver problems when switching to a major mainstream Linux distro.
byAmiMoJo ( 196126 ) writes:
Document scanners is a big one for me and many businesses. Label printers too.
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bydrinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
It is not even slightly hard to find such things which are Linux compatible. If you're trying to support old hardware that you have already then sure, it's hit and miss, and that's a real objection for switchers who might have to buy new hardware. IME most scanners are supported now, usually by libSANE, occasionally by the vendor. Printers might be less so, but there are plenty of supported options.
byAmiMoJo ( 196126 ) writes:
What decent document scanners can I buy today that are Linux compatible?
bydrinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
Go look at libSANE docs or something, I'm not your search engine.
byAmiMoJo ( 196126 ) writes:
There aren't any. They don't with work SANE because they are document scanners and need special handling for duplex, straightening, that sort of thing. It's very difficult to go paperless with Linux, unless you are willing to manually scan everything page by page with a flatbed.
bydrinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
learn to internet [sane-project.org]
byAmiMoJo ( 196126 ) writes:
Does not work for document scanners.
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