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this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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Shit, just linux.
Use this community for anything related to linux for now, if it gets too huge maybe there will be some sort of meme/gaming/shitpost spinoff. Currently though… go nuts
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Okie Pew, show me an open source spreadsheet app that can do tables, I'll wait.
Or, let's see you install Debian in one try on any of my machines. Or worse, Mint. Machines that Windows has zero problem installing.
How about cad? Or running any form of CNC? or a million other systems that have zero support in Linux land?
Tell you what, Pew, maybe you should come to the real world where most of us don't have time to play with our asses to get standard hardware, like Logitech mice to work.
And I use Linux every day, as servers. But I'll be damned if I ever use, or recommend it, as a desktop. There are tools I need (like excel) that simply must work, as-is. Unless you want to pay to redevelop all the systems that have automation to output/input excel formats that have been operating for a decade or more.
If Pew was "tortured by windows", then I seriously doubt his technical creds, , frankly.
LibreOffice Calc?
Also, I installed Linux many, many times and it has been much smoother than windows. Even excluding privacy stuff. Even assuming one has a Microsoft Account at hand and internet. There have been multiple instances of drivers simply missing from the installer. Like Mouse/Touchpad drivers. Or disk drivers. Literally making it impossible to install Windows, without either great knowledge of the cmd, or traversing each and everything, including the traps and bullshit M$ placed into the installer on purpose, via keyboard. Debian, Pop, Arch and other liveboots worked perfectly fine.
This, 100% irks me to this day, but not as much as their broken reinventions of the wheel for an attempt to make it more 'user friendly' to install drivers automatically, that is if the user knows what Device Manager is, where to find it, etc. And then they broke that, and decided to include everything into windows update.
Did you know MS scans for drivers and uploads them automatically to their database, just to be paired based on the Hardware ID? I only see so much potential for malicious drivers with fake signatures its unbelievable, I am legit surprised no one has come with a PoC so far (and if you're interested on working on it, send me a message, I'm kinda interested too)
I really miss the old XP days were you knew you had a driver disc somewhere, and could pop it in after a fresh install and let it do its thing. And the disc came with your motherboard / new hardware directly from the retailer.
We don't really need driver discs anymore - at least, between my Steelseries Headset, Sharkoon Keyboard and Logitech Mouse, the only thing needing extra drivers were my NVidia GPU (switched to an AMD one), and my Laptops fingerprint sensor. Which I uninstalled again, because it's more of a hassle to move my finger to it than to type my pw in. The problem nowadays is rather specific software for controlling eg. RGB, but OpenRGB and piper have me mostly covered.
I know back then we needed drivers for speakers, I remember the AC'97 hardware being more reliable and accessible than the HDAU, but a KB & Mouse?
The reason why you feel we don't need driver discs anymore is because the internet allows you to download the windows binaries directly from nvidia.com but what would be the case if I wanted to set up a gaming station in a remote area? And also make sure that a flash drive won't die, get lost or lose its contents over time for electron decay?
The other day I got an enterprise 10G NIC and it came with a driver disc lol. Is Intel X520 based.
True, if you jump into the cold water and do everything yourself, eg. compiling client software yourself, you may also need to compile drivers. But for everyday use cases, installing the client software from the repos just has a dependency on the drivers, and you don't have to (but maybe could) even think about it.
The other day I compiled libreboot. It was a fun experience.
Wow I just gave up and started running that shit on Wine, I have never liked his content but I admire his dedication.
I use Krita from time to time for basic screenshot manipulation tho, I just wished it could print directly.
Posting this in an explicitly pro-linux community on an open source federated social media designed for the purpose of seperating online social spaces from corporate control is silly behavior imo
Funny of you to say that. I've got a Orange pi 5 MAX (which I'm pretty sure it can fall into the "not a easy machine to install Linux" category) and the experience, for the most part, was straightforward. (You've mentioned an issue regarding mices --I've got a "Ragnok 2 gun mice" and it "just werked" on it. No tweaks or "mental gymnastics" required.). Hell, even enabling hardware acceleration was very straightforward as is -- you just have to know where and what to look for.
I'm not trying to defend Pewdiepie -- just saying that Linux can be "user friendly" just like Windows if you know what you are dong.