The only few reason I know so far is software availability, like adobe software, and Microsoft suite. Is there more of major reasons that I missed?

  • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world
    23·
    2 years ago

    20ish years ago I installed Ubuntu on a laptop with the intention to get off Windows. I then spent 4 to 6 hours a day for the next two weeks just trying to get the WiFi to function. None of the fixes I could Google up worked, and that was frustrating. It was the people in the Linux forums that finally made me quit trying, though. The amount of gatekeeping was kind of shocking. Like, how dare I bother such mighty computer men with my plebian questions. I should feel honored that anyone condescended to respond at all, and I should gratefully accept their link to a fix I’ve already tried and fuck off.

    I bought a new PC last year and I hate Windows 11 so much that it’s got me eyeing Linux again. But the thought of having to repeat that whole ordeal again makes me feel sick to my butthole.

        • HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          2 years ago

          I know people meme around about it but have you actually experienced it yourself? As an Arch user myself, can’t confirm.

          • Danitos@reddthat.com
            2·
            2 years ago

            Yes.

            My last experience was around 2 months ago with a driver issue. In the forums, someone linked a solution, and a lot of comments were in the lines of “Seriously? This was already in the newsletter, why are people not reading/subscribed to it. It’s their problem then”. Funnily enough, an actually helpful comment noted that the newsletter solution had a typo that made the solution not work as expected.

    • anti-idpol action@programming.dev
      1·
      2 years ago

      what distro was it back then? some distros religiously dedicated to software freedom don’t ship the proprietary linux-firmware blobs which might, among other things, contain your WiFi drivers.

      • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        I honestly don’t remember. It was a long time ago. I also tried Mint thinking it might be more intuitive, but I couldn’t get WiFi to work with either of them.

        • anti-idpol action@programming.dev
          1·
          2 years ago

          virtually any built in card works these days. with 3rd party cards… well you’re better of looking up it’s chipset and how well it is supported by linux before you buy one, for example some cheap realtek dongles had no WPA3 support and worse throughput. Iirc Broadcom has for a long time been hostile towards linux.