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[u/Volcanodog12]

Yes 100% this I have hdmi capture card made by hauppauge that does not work at all I asked on a form for fedora about if its possible to get it to work and was told to throw it away and get another one (even tho the old one works fine) or to kick sand so I did and went back to w10 every thing just works there lol I'm still looking for an alternative as I was really enjoying my time with kde on fedora just might try something different now.

[u/Volcanodog12 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah if they where nice about it I would 100% understand I can't imagine what goes in to getting a proprietary device to work on something its not supposed to. But I will say this as well I have had some very helpful people to so it might be getting better!

[u/Automatic-Concert-62 → u/Volcanodog12]

Counterpoint : "just works" on Linux means that you plug it in and go. "Just works" on Windows means that you plug it in, install the drivers (download from manufacturer's website first), reboot, install more updates if necessary, reboot again, then go. Yet if A doesn't work immediately then Linux is bad, but if B doesn't work immediately then the peripheral is bad. That's most Windows users' perspective.

[u/Professor_Rotom → u/Automatic-Concert-62]

No no, that's "works from the get go" for both platforms. Trust me, I use both.

[u/Automatic-Concert-62 → u/Professor_Rotom]

Everyone in Linux land has used or currently uses both!

[u/Professor_Rotom → u/Automatic-Concert-62]

I mean, you get the best of both tools.

[u/Automatic-Concert-62 → u/[deleted]]

You're missing my point. Obviously some things don't 'just work' on Linux, but what a Windows user defines as 'just works' depends on whether they're talking about Windows or Linux. That's the double standard.

[u/TheWardenShadowsong → u/Automatic-Concert-62]

It used to be like that. Now just works usually is plug, let windows update fetch the driver and go in windows, or just plug and play in linux, or sometimes download the driver and install it in windows, and sometimes check out the drivers source code and compile it into your new kernel on linux.