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Dualboot is evil, use only linux (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 19 points 3 months ago (31 children)

Out of curiosity what hardware are you using that's not supported?

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (16 children)

    Printers 🤣

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    In my experience, the only OS where printers won't have drivers is Windows.

    But I don't deal often with dark demoniac systems, so there are probably lots of niche hellish devices that I don't know the details.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    BS, I have gotten HP printers to work on Linux with no problems.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    My Epson inkjet is a paperweight without w*ndows

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    I was able to get mine working by setting it up as a network printer via windows and then just accessing it like that through Linux. But yeah, if I ever change wifi ssids I would need to factory reset it go back into windows and configure it again. (ET2400)

    Edit to be clear the windows instance is only needed for setup, it can be shut down or removed entirely after setup

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    How old is it? Almost all relatively recent printers should support driverless network printing by now.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Maybe 5 years old, haven't tested in a while but it's USB only with no network connectivity

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I supported Hp Web Jet Admin on a slew of print servers for a large healthcare org after it got dropped in my lap from a round of layoffs. I'll never own a printer again. Granted I never print anymore but I would rather drive to office depot a thousand times than to bring that evil back into this house

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Certain fingerprint readers and touchscreens

    ex. Goodix

    It's not the fault of Linux, it's the hardware manufacturers. Still, you need to consider it before buying the device

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    HP Reverb G2 for me. Still waiting on Monado to get it fully working but no such luck yet. Hugely appreciative to the dev team for all of their amazing work, of course.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Peripheral devices, mostly. I have some half-supported, like Logitech mouse (G-shift doesn't work), and for some I rely on open-source devs (like Corsair keyboard for certain keys/modes/connectivity fix). Sure, you can say just buy compatible devices, but it's not always viable to replace everything you owned before moving to Linux.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Broadcom hardware (WiFi cards an webcams in particular). Plus there are quirks with some proprietary driver version not building against some kernel version...

    With unsupported hardware and closed drivers you are always on the lookout for some breakage.

    And it's not a Linux problem nor a complaint on distro maintainers. It's manufacturers that are shit.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Asus Zenbook DUO

    I'll be honest, A lot more of it works than I expected. Linux runs and is quite stable.

    Keyboard Backlighting? Had to write some Python. Windows driver manages this, proprietary. I still can't get backlight to work in bluetooth mode.

    Trackpad Palm Rejection? Had to write a service. Windows driver manages this, proprietary.

    Function keys on the keyboard in wired mode? Not supported, no work-around that I can find. I have to remove the keyboard and put it into bluetooth mode. Windows driver.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I've got some LianLi case fans that aren't supported by anything Linux that I've been able to find. I run a barebones VM just to control their features.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    What case are you using? I've got a LianLi Lancool 216. It's a little loud but it runs just fine for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Off the top of my head, my case is a LianLi O11, but I was talking about my case fans, which are... Oh lord, their naming is so obnoxious, the... TM LCDs I think?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    lconnect just isn't linux friendly, which is kinda surprising. I've got the 8.8 universal screen, which I could just toggle into a second display and get all the system data that way when running under linux.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Oh yeah I gave up trying to run LConnect on linux a while ago. I then looked into alternative tools people have made, of which there are a few and they seem great, but none of which (when I looked last) support my specific fan models. So my current solution is Windows 11 in a barebones VM that autostarts. It literally just runs Lconnect and nothing else, and the only things passed through to it are the USB controls for the fans. It has allowed me to at least control the colours, and screens, though not fan profiles or stats.

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