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PewDiePie made a video on why he installed Linux and explained why everyone should do it too. Due to his number of followers, this might be the year of the Linux Desktop? Hooray?

  • sykaster@feddit.nlEnglish
    32·
    1 day ago

    I wanted to give new life to an old acer laptop/tablet hybrid. I installed Linux, but the webcam and microphone just won’t work no matter what. The power button also doesn’t work.

    There’s still a long way to go before any casual user would accept this.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      31·
      22 hours ago

      The good news is this isn’t an issue for most people, it was free, and your device was already doing so poorly with Windows you felt it was at the end of its life, so even not working perfectly it still worked.

      Edit: Also, Linux isn’t one thing. Your distro may not have included the packages to make those devices work, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You could have searched for a solution, or perhaps a different distro would work.

      • sykaster@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        17 hours ago

        This was the result of much research, I’m not entirely new to the space. No one got these peripherals to work on that device, unfortunately.

        I don’t understand what you mean by this isn’t an issue for most people. Most people do care about a webcam not working right. Or do jou mean my device isn’t representative? That could be, but it doesn’t mean people with this device have a good Linux experience if they install it.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          13 hours ago

          Or do jou mean my device isn’t representative?

          Yes, this. Most devices it just works, and a small minority will work with a little effort. A miniscule number will be like yours. It isn’t representative of the average experience. It’s an outlier.

          Out of curiosity, how long ago was this? It very well may have the support now, though if it’s from some manufacturer using proprietary drivers for their webcams, for some crazy stupid reason, then maybe not.

          • sykaster@feddit.nlEnglish
            2·
            9 hours ago

            This was just two weeks ago, and it’s a relatively old device, from 2014. It’s proprietary bullhonky all over that device unfortunately, from the screen brightness to the webcam to the bloody power button.