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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?
bydskoll ( 99328 ) writes:
I have not had driver issues on Linux in the last 20 years or so. Maybe in the ancient days when Linux was new and you had to mess with X11 mode lines. But nowadays, things just work.
byfuzzyfuzzyfungus ( 1223518 ) writes:
There are still some things that just don't work; it's only server gear where you essentially aren't even pretending if there isn't linux support; but what has closed markedly is the 'theoretically works; substantial amount of esoteric fuckery involved in making it work' category, and it's easier than it used to be for an entire system chosen without special care to fall into the 'just works' box.
If something that just doesn't work is critical you may not be any better off than you were 20 years ago(exce
bydskoll ( 99328 ) writes:
You're spouting FUD. I've run Linux on desktops and laptops since 1996. I have not had driver issues for at least 20 years.
If something that just doesn't work is critical
Yeah? But that hasn't happened, so it's hypothetical.
byfuzzyfuzzyfungus ( 1223518 ) writes:
That's not my intent. In using Linux since 2001ish I've had no issues of note with hardware; but I enjoy testing the oddest stuff I can get permission to test just to see; and unsurprisingly really niche lab gear that barely has support on what the vendor claims it does and is going to be stuck on that airgapped XP box until it dies doesn't necessarily have much support. At least in cases with low speed requirements, it's not uncommon for it to not really be a driver issue in the strict sense: the vendor wi
bydskoll ( 99328 ) writes:
You've shifted the goalposts. We were talking about desktops and laptops, not niche lab equipment.
That said: In the late 90s, I was working for a company that reverse-engineered ICs. We bought a digital microscope camera from Polaroid that only had Windows drivers. I pestered Polaroid for documentation until I finally received an email from an engineer there saying "You will receive a floppy disk in the mail. I will deny having sent it."
On the floppy was the documentation for the SCSI commands needed to drive the camera. I wrote a SANE driver for it which is still shipped with SANE [sane-project.org] to this day.
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