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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Is Linux As Good As We Think It Is? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Obviously, a bit of clickbait. Sorry.

I just got to work and plugged my surface pro into my external monitor. It didn't switch inputs immediately, and I thought "Linux would have done that". But would it?

I find myself far more patient using Linux and De-googled Android than I do with windows or anything else. After all, Linux is mine. I care for it. Grow it like a garden.

And that's a good thing; I get less frustrated with my tech, and I have something that is important to me outside its technical utility. Unlike windows, which I'm perpetually pissed at. (Very often with good reason)

But that aside, do we give Linux too much benefit of the doubt relative to the "things that just work". Often they do "just work", and well, with a broad feature set by default.

Most of us are willing to forgo that for the privacy and shear customizability of Linux, but do we assume too much of the tech we use and the tech we don't?

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Windows works nearly every time any more - I don't have to do anything during setup. Drivers are automatic during setup.

Not sure where you get this idea from.

My Logitech mouse doesn't work at all on Linux unless I search for why and go find third-party software for it. Windows sees it as a generic HID and treats it as such. I can go get the Logitech software if I want, but have no need of it. Linux? Nope. Probably the most prolific mouse on the planet and Linux can't even use it, at all, natively.

On windows it just works.

Now let's go deploy 300, or 3000 machines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I have the opposite. Old Logitech bluetooth mouse on W10, Windows will pair with it but next boot it totally will not reconnect, no matter what, unless I delete paired device and re-add it. It was fine on W7. Linux has no issue reconnecting to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Then you must not be very bright. All my Logitech and Razer hardware just works on every Linux distro I jump on while distro hopping.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You get your panties in a twist because you have to install Solaar?

It's a very simple, very functional piece of software Built For Logitech Devices.

All my keyboards & mice are (mostly second hand) Logitech. No problems here.

Not even sure I've had to install Solaar with Mint or Ubuntu in the last 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

First of all you're missing the point.

Drivers are automatic during setup.

That still means third-party drivers, so it's still not a Windows win but rather a "windows is so ubiquitous that Logitech (or whoever) was forced to release a driver for it", which is what the comment you're replying was talking about.

Secondly, bullshit. In my 20 years using Linux I have never, ever, plugged in a mouse that didn't get immediately recognized and worked as expected. What mouse do you have? You said Logitech, which model? The only thing that I ever needed specialized software on a Logitech mouse was to configure extra buttons or to pair it to a different dongle (both stuffs that also need specialized software only provided by Logitech on Windows)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Linux is far, far better at handling generic USB devices than Windows. Your inability to plug in a peripheral seems like PEBCAK.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You forgot to mention you use Arch, btw.