My use case for Linux is very minimal, so I can’t say I know your particular use case, but what drivers do you have issues with? Purely out of curiosity.
Mouse drivers, CPU something, USB issues, and Bluetooth.
It varies between my different servers and systems. It’s just one of those things where like, yeah, maybe I can solve it, but it’s going to take hours and I need to be able to constantly move forward.
If I didn’t have to work 12+ hours a day it might be different. So I don’t necessarily fault the landscape, it’s just that I can throw Windows on any system and it works and I can RDP into it and it works and it adjusts DPI and such automatically.
What hardware do you use? I have used aspires and dells and never an issue. I use zorin but its just an ubuntu lts respin. Heck I use zorin because im to lazy to download all the apps I need and it comes with a lot out of the box. so I don’t even want to spend time on that. I have a long term plan to move to something like bazzite but its already been a year out on that. Although I think I have the app thing worked out.
Ok yeah. It sounded like you had thrown some stock distros and had issues but it sounds like you use things, I assume, that heavily modifies windows and you have to do other heavy mods in linux that break things but windows handles the mods. You hear 8 distros and driver issues and start to think there has to be hardware issue. I have a pretty simple setup overall and even I have a old laptop running windows although its mostly due to laziness and cost. I know what I have to do but have been lazy about doing it plus I need to buy a new drive.
I’m 8 distro attempts in so far and have yet to not sink substantial time into driver and general usability issues.
In another life I’d be happy to sacrifice productivity to grind on fixing the issues, but presently it has real costs.
For now, I run Proxmox and a slew of linux containers and VMs - but still unfortunately use windows as my primary :/
My use case for Linux is very minimal, so I can’t say I know your particular use case, but what drivers do you have issues with? Purely out of curiosity.
Mouse drivers, CPU something, USB issues, and Bluetooth.
It varies between my different servers and systems. It’s just one of those things where like, yeah, maybe I can solve it, but it’s going to take hours and I need to be able to constantly move forward.
If I didn’t have to work 12+ hours a day it might be different. So I don’t necessarily fault the landscape, it’s just that I can throw Windows on any system and it works and I can RDP into it and it works and it adjusts DPI and such automatically.
What hardware do you use? I have used aspires and dells and never an issue. I use zorin but its just an ubuntu lts respin. Heck I use zorin because im to lazy to download all the apps I need and it comes with a lot out of the box. so I don’t even want to spend time on that. I have a long term plan to move to something like bazzite but its already been a year out on that. Although I think I have the app thing worked out.
Custom built desktop so we can get into that if we want
Minisforum MS-01 running Proxmox
Minisforum S02 Ultra
Samsung Galaxy Book…5?
Surface Laptop something with the Snapdragon elite X or something
I need them to all be able to easily and quickly integrate and interact.
Ok yeah. It sounded like you had thrown some stock distros and had issues but it sounds like you use things, I assume, that heavily modifies windows and you have to do other heavy mods in linux that break things but windows handles the mods. You hear 8 distros and driver issues and start to think there has to be hardware issue. I have a pretty simple setup overall and even I have a old laptop running windows although its mostly due to laziness and cost. I know what I have to do but have been lazy about doing it plus I need to buy a new drive.