The second from the right even has a hogwart!

Reading through the comments here, the Linux community slowly seems move away from “runs on about every piece of hardware you can think of” to “if you don’t have at least the Nimbus 2000 that’s on you, sucker!”

That was not meant to be a brag, just to show that this is not a beginner’s problem and that I can compare the change over time a bit. Linux still suffers from hardware support issues. Linux also supports a range of (older) hardware much better than others, but let’s not pretend this is solved.

Good for you that the things you happen to have bought work for you, but that’s just anecdotal evidence.

Well, to add my personal experience to yours, I’ve personally bought an off-the-shelf laptop “optimized for Linux” (from Tuxedo, to be clear). That should work just fine, shouldn’t it? As it turns out, energy management does not, which is kind of essential, at least with a standard Linux installation that is not their own Ubuntu-based distribution or standard Ubuntu. They provide a management tool, but you need to build it yourself and the process is not documented properly. You’ll need some experience and be able to interpret error messages in a terminal to find out where the issue is. Setting it up to start automatically on the next boot is another hurdle. I think that’s not very nice, especially with this “optimized for Linux” claim. that might target newcomers in particular who try to avoid such issues.

The tool also requires a lot of additional node.js bloat, just to get your fans work properly and your laptop not to overheat. Sleep/hibernation also does not work properly outside their own OS/Ubuntu, and their advanced management tool with additional features does not work at all outside of Ubuntu/their derivate.

I’ve been there in the early 2000s, fighting with my network and graphics cards and I know it all got much better. Especially now that Nvidia support seems to finally become better. But let’s not pretend issues don’t exist?

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Ah, thanks for the reminder! As a happy systemd user I sometimes forget how stubbornly resentful some people in the Linux community are that they still try to keep this up as a topic. Then again, maybe this is just a troll?

True, but I give them the fax machines in their public offices and floppy disks on trains because the service works. I’d rather have it this way than switching everything to the newest ipads and breaking the service on the way.

In tech: maybe

Other than that it often feels like 1950s America

She’s a fascist politician herself if you were wondering

Exactly! It’s rare to find such old things that are still excellent today

tbh, one of the essential things vim gets right for me is that it’s designed as a text editor, not (only) a code editor. I use it for so much non-code text as well, but it feels weird opening a coding tool for such things.

I was about to agree on the macOS part, but Gnome is really terrible in terms of UX. They are good at eye candy and unfortunately don’t seem to know the difference between a pretty and a good UI.

Agree, yesterday me should learn his lesson

I think you’re talking about the GNUniverse?

“If you want to build your own linux from scratch, you first have to invent the universe.” - GNU/RMS

may I introduce you to ubuntu pro spamming your apt-get these days? You’re welcome

Don’t they mean allerjen information?

Once you discover you can just install the nix package manager with one command and then install everything with another, snap is out of the game. Even if you just use nix for like 2 packages, it’s already much better

We can argue as much as we want about whether moore’s law covers technological development in general or be pedantic like good old fundamental Christians and only read what the words say.

The bigger problem is that we have reached the era of what we could tentatively call “wal s’eroom”. Thanks to enshittification (another one of those slippery words!) I predict that technological progress reverses from now on by 50% every 2 years.

Please take context into account. Please.

(this is a lil’ lemmy thread and I think everyone understands what OP had in mind)