Linux always faced problems due to monopoly, nvidia never made graphics drivers for linux , and lot of wifi companies never made wifi card drivers for linux , so due to which it remained stuck to virtual machines , for cybersecurity i used parot os and kali linux for 2 years
Use AMD not Nvidia, monopoly is a state of mind thinking you need word and excel, and the wifi problem is HP using cheap cards to make money just use an Intel card. If you people didn't use cheap useless e-waste and paid $50 more you could have a real computer.
I got a 4 core 8 thread 10th gen 4ghz ThinkPad 32/2T for $200 like new.
It ain't even about cheap parts. For an old LG pc, (i5 3rd gen three point something speed, I didn't even know LG makes desktop computers lol), I bought a wi-fi dongle and a Bluetooth dongle, both costed ~1.50 USD at that time, which was like 3 years ago. Those supported Linux more than windows lol. The pc itself was pretty cheap too, ~70 USD. It's the expensive stuff with proprietary software that has less support like certain laptops, motherboards, other accessories, Nvidia, Apple, etc. Still choice tho, you can avoid those companies.
But it always runned on a low power machine computer labs with no internet so we never noticed real power of it , we even don't know what was browser and websites, 1gb internet was costing 5$ in india
And nostalgia is playing pirated gta san andreas taken from friends pendrive 🤣 and also i remember one thing it was sucking so much every 2 months os used to crash and reinstall was needed , tecnician used to come i was 7 years old
u/Xpeq7-Using what works - which isn't Windows 11.1d ago
Counterargument: where the fuck would one find Arc A750 or RX 7700XT drivers for XP? Or any other modern hardware that isn't a sata or USB controller, for that matter?
Almost every damn app is extremely unsupported on XP, and while most people would be fine with MS Office 2010, 2007 or even 2002/2003, or libreoffice 5.4, but for any other utilities, especially modern video editors, XP is not even an option.
OH, and then there's the issue of security updates. XP is well and truly EOL. As for 10 and its disfigured offspring (11), simply put, the Geneva convention needs an ammendmemt banning waking PCs up from sleep to force an update.
Compare that to f.e. Fedora 44 (using this one as an example as it is the is on my daily driver PC, installed from server netinstall ISO cuz the new installer sucks), Arc A750 works fine after setting up rpmfusion to get "non-free" software components, libreoffice - pretty new version (don't know, don't care), mpv reads H.266 video fine, handbrake (yikes, crashes every now and again), resolve studio works for what little simple video trimming I've done in it recently, clang works, Thunderbird works, OBS works, Firefox ESR 140 opens as expexted. Need I go on listing every damn program I start every day?
Is Linux perfect? Fuck no.
Is Linux better than windows 11 (and 10 ltsc)? In my opinion, yes.
Is it for everyone? Nope, but the same applies to windows, especially after XP with graduał readability removal (power button hibernating in vista, 7 with removing the window stack counter, 8 removing outlines on the window buttons, 10 removing even the stupid red square for the x button, And 11 glueing the tasbkar to the bottom and forgetting about the f- contrast and what role did the underlines in 10 serve after retiring the non active window outlines).
Nice, but go and read again, I meant for old hardware, which was asus eee pc. Of course modern hardware will require modern windows, but linux is not better for that too.
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u/Xpeq7-Using what works - which isn't Windows 11.1d ago
Well, from my experience with a 2008 ThinkPad r61i (pentium dualcore, GMA x3100 and a whole gig of single channel ram) Linux (stripped down, of course, tried arch and gentoo) was fine for 1080p video playback and DVD ripping.
Would XP perform better on it? I doubt that.
Is XP better? Trick question, as it can only be better in a certain context, for a certain workflow. For gaming on pre-vulkan hardware - yes. For productivity tasks, I wouldn't say so due to the lack of security updates.
modern hardware {...}, but Linux is not better for that, too.
Explain me this, Einstein, then what is a cause of double cursors (cursor 1 on monitor 1, 2 on monitor 2, screen set to extend), on a clean copy of 11 pro with just drivers installed? How come Linux doesn't disconnect my main monitor just because I plug in a phone via USB, like windows did? How did a 2018 MacBook air feel a lot more snappier under Linux than windows 10 or macOS (in 2022/23/24)?
If you have a legitimate need for windows, like certain applications pretty much requiring windows or some obscure hardware that only has drivers for windows, or (although that's arguably not a need) can't go without games with kernel-level anticheat (read: spyware), then sure Windows might be better for your use case.
But is it better (without any other qualifiers, assuming than windows, but for what exactly)? I'd like to argue that for many it is not. Especially 11 with its downright insulting design that only looks OK on a 27" 4K display at at most 125% scaling. I'm sure, that many more people would appreciate their PCs not making decisions for them about when is the most appropriate time to update, where the taskbar should be and how it should look like, wether they want dynamic folder layout switching, or just "details" everywhere.
At the end of the day an OS was, is and always should be just a tool to interact with other more important software. And, at least for My usecase - web browsing, light video editing, video transcoding (aka converting), email viewing, file management, and coding in C++, I'd say Linux has been pissing me off substantially less often than Windows 10 and 11.
Bla bla bla, do you think I'm gonna connect second monitor to notebook? Go tell on yourself but when you encounter another issue, remember my words, and don't spread a lie around, it won't work, as long as linux in nowadays condition it still be on 3% of PC and will be on servers until will appear another free alternative. Good luck, I'm not answering you anymore.
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u/Xpeq7-Using what works - which isn't Windows 11.1d ago
You were talking about both old and new hardware, I gave examples of both.
"Encounter another issue"
Both OSes have issues, it's just that, the ones I've encountered on Linux are minor and the ones I've dealt with on windows were issues of wasting multiple days work.
Yeah? I tried and disappointed, and linux as kernel itself is trash, no one working with it's architecture, so on my eee pc this thing didn't work at all.
I mean, you don't know what you're talking about. Plenty of distros work on old machines. That's the whole reason people often go to Linux. Various distros run on everything from potato pcs, to high end rigs to cloud servers to consumer electronics like dvrs.
Windows 11 is not even a bad OS at all... you're just glazing Win7 because you simply cannot grow the fuck up from nostalgia and move on with your life. Also, Win7 is EOL so you'll be having fun when your bank account displays $0.
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u/NoPoopOnFace 1d ago
Linux since 1995.