I must just be really lucky then? I’ve been running Linux exclusively for about a decade, including on my laptops and while my most recent laptop is from System76 every laptop I had before this one and all the HW in my desktop was purchased without considering Linux compatibility because I literally haven’t had hardware compatibility issues in years. I thought those issues were from Linux of the past and my own experience agrees with that. Weird.
I’ve had zero compatibility issues (other than garbage docking stations using display link) but I was always just buying Dell. I just tried an Asus and have a ton of problems. Hardware is still an issue on Linux unless you’re using the most common shit.
Interesting, before my system76 laptop I had an HP, and before that a Dell. My desktop has had both gigabyte and Asus mobos in it over the years. I personally run Debian but I self compile my kernel, mostly for debloat and minor preference changes.
Yeah based on my experience of lots of people using Linux in companies, you’re pretty lucky.
But obviously it can both be true that most people have no issues and it’s really unreliable. Like, I would guess 20% of people in my company have serious issues with Linux - random crashes and not going to sleep in bags. That’s really bad! But still 80% of people have no issues, which is why you always see confused comments like yours on forums saying they don’t have any problems.
I must just be really lucky then? I’ve been running Linux exclusively for about a decade, including on my laptops and while my most recent laptop is from System76 every laptop I had before this one and all the HW in my desktop was purchased without considering Linux compatibility because I literally haven’t had hardware compatibility issues in years. I thought those issues were from Linux of the past and my own experience agrees with that. Weird.
I’ve had zero compatibility issues (other than garbage docking stations using display link) but I was always just buying Dell. I just tried an Asus and have a ton of problems. Hardware is still an issue on Linux unless you’re using the most common shit.
Daily driving OpenSuse for ~20 years.
Interesting, before my system76 laptop I had an HP, and before that a Dell. My desktop has had both gigabyte and Asus mobos in it over the years. I personally run Debian but I self compile my kernel, mostly for debloat and minor preference changes.
Yeah based on my experience of lots of people using Linux in companies, you’re pretty lucky.
But obviously it can both be true that most people have no issues and it’s really unreliable. Like, I would guess 20% of people in my company have serious issues with Linux - random crashes and not going to sleep in bags. That’s really bad! But still 80% of people have no issues, which is why you always see confused comments like yours on forums saying they don’t have any problems.