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Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10 (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How do you not see why that's a problem? Telling someone to not use new hardware is not a solution, it's a shitty work around. You're just proving my point that Linux is not ready for main stream use. Unless all you do is read email and Facebook then sure Linux will work but for people actually trying to enjoy their PC, it's bad. You people are actually delusional.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I do a lot more than browse email.

Also you seem to have lost track: new hardware is only really a problem with distros like Debian and Ubuntu. Even then you can make it work by adding a newer kernel - I actually did this to run Ubuntu on a brand new machine.

CPU and GPU companies put a lot of effort to make their latest stuff work with Linux, but that only holds true on recent kernels. Intel WiFi will also work fine, again on newer kernels. The issue is companies like Broadcom, and distros with old kernels.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You still are missing the point and I doubt you'll get it. To the average user they don't give a fuck why it doesn't work. It doesn't work. And until it does then the average user isn't going to jump through hoops to make their hardware work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah that's actually a valid point. More distros should use newer kernels for hardware support reasons, to improve the OOB experience.

It wasn't what you said before though was it? I don't think that was me not getting the point so much as you changing what you said.

Installing drivers on Windows used to be quite common, still is common for some devices, and it's actually often easier to install drivers on Linux than it is on Windows. So I don't think it's too unreasonable to make people install drivers or kernel using an included utility.