On this I must respectfully disagree.
HDR monitors have been standardized more poorly than Bluetooth was, so I could kind of see this sort of producer interference coming. It didn’t help that the average user doesn’t even understand what that means.
Most modern hardware works out of the box on Linux, and often runs a stripped down kernel as its own firmware.
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WE DON’T TALK ABOUT WINDOWS 11!
Ever since Valve started kicking it for Wine/Proton, gaming has been a cinch.
I understand the HDR thing dealt with the standards for it being absolute undecided mess; but it’s looking like we’ll have support cranked out before the end of 2024. Here’s hoping, I do all my multimedia stuff on KDE.
Must be a by-distro thing. On KUbuntu and Pop! I’ve never had any issues with Nvidia, though I know that they’re a pain in the ass to work with.
I hear you.
The first time WBR killed my partition labels, it was before I could even properly restart. I removed the GRUB entry after that mess, once I repaired their labeling; but at least at the time, it would come back after every GRUB update. Later I just moved Windows to its own hard drive and left it there.
Now I don’t even feel the need to bother with it at all.
Put simply, Linux is a kernel; WSL is a partial emulator of that kernel with exceedingly little support for the programs that attract people to it.
As one popular example, there’s no support for anything graphical. I’ve heard a lot about how the feature is coming, but I’ve yet to meet anyone who got it to work.
Under-the-hood, you are still using the bloated Windows kernel, a now 30-year-old file system which was flawed to begin with (NTFS) or something newish that’s closely related to it, and you’re facing the same exhausting privacy violations that MS has been in hot water for; except you get to do it with bash instead.
I tried it on my laptop that had Windows 11 pre-installed, and I cannot imagine how they’re attracting anyone other than middle management and freshmen boot camp engineers with it. Apparently they found out that Ubuntu could be side-loaded in two minutes and panicked or something.
Addendum: WSL2 is apparently less of an emulator and more of a stripped-down VM, but again, how that appeals to me more than a full VM with drag-and-drop support is beyond me. Maybe someone else can give you a use case that’s worked for them.
So, mind-skipper in that you forgot to pick one up when they were being handed out?
Are you talking about WSL!? WSL is not even close to actual Linux. Additionally, if I need to run Linux while using Windows, I will be using a VM like a seasoned professional, not the Windows equivalent of Wine in 2008.
This isn’t a real solution, but I’ve run it fine through Amazon on Chrome while using Linux.
Just pray to God you didn’t pick “Windows Boot Repair” or you’re going to spend a while recovering your partition labels…
Is your desktop equipped with a spark blanket and a fume hood? -> JavaOS
Cool Edge Lord points, bruh.
I am one of the few who once had BSD installed on a laptop, and GOD DAMN do I miss being that weirdo.
More importantly, it’s the year of Windows 11… also known as the Inadvertent Year of the Linux Desktop.
Mint is remarkably stable. They even seem to put a barrier up against Canonical’s questionable decisions.
That distro needs more funding and more shout-outs.