Linux falls behind Windows when it comes to hardware support and software compatibility
So since when is my laptop supported by the most recent version of Windows or MacOS? Does my perfectly fine old printer (which refuses to clog up and die) work there? No, it stopped working when I got Windows 10. All of that is perfectly supported by Linux, so why would it fall behind? Wouldn’t that be Windows? And I can barely update my TomTom because of some C++ Redistributable shenanigans, and all these things.
And this article has the same bullshit about power users and server administrators. Not everyone has to become that. And we should have a prominent paragraph on how it’s perfectly fine to just use the computer, do your mundane tasks in Thunderbird, LibreOffice and the browser and be done with it.
The “software compatibility” is complete BS as well. I remember trying to replay a game from my youth, Master of Orion II, back in the late '00s or early '10s. At that time Windows wouldn’t run it at all, no matter the compatibility settings, while it was playable in Wine. And Wine is so much better now than it was then.
How the heck does “Linux can run Windows software that even Windows can’t” count as Linux “falling behind” in software compatibility?
That aligns with my experience. Getting old games running tends to be easy on Wine or Proton. I was told the Microsoft products are supposed to have a relatively stable core interface to theoretically offer compatibility as well. But then there’s just so much stuff on top and in between so it doesn’t work for stuff like games. And I’m not sure if they made some kind of cut sometime as well. Drivers for peripherals also don’t work. At least I and people I know had to discard old hardware over the years, and that’s pretty much unheard of with Linux, unless you got some driver as binary only or whatever Nvidia did to occasionally break stuff.
Uhh, not sure whether to upvote or downvote this…
So since when is my laptop supported by the most recent version of Windows or MacOS? Does my perfectly fine old printer (which refuses to clog up and die) work there? No, it stopped working when I got Windows 10. All of that is perfectly supported by Linux, so why would it fall behind? Wouldn’t that be Windows? And I can barely update my TomTom because of some C++ Redistributable shenanigans, and all these things.
And this article has the same bullshit about power users and server administrators. Not everyone has to become that. And we should have a prominent paragraph on how it’s perfectly fine to just use the computer, do your mundane tasks in Thunderbird, LibreOffice and the browser and be done with it.
The “software compatibility” is complete BS as well. I remember trying to replay a game from my youth, Master of Orion II, back in the late '00s or early '10s. At that time Windows wouldn’t run it at all, no matter the compatibility settings, while it was playable in Wine. And Wine is so much better now than it was then.
How the heck does “Linux can run Windows software that even Windows can’t” count as Linux “falling behind” in software compatibility?
That aligns with my experience. Getting old games running tends to be easy on Wine or Proton. I was told the Microsoft products are supposed to have a relatively stable core interface to theoretically offer compatibility as well. But then there’s just so much stuff on top and in between so it doesn’t work for stuff like games. And I’m not sure if they made some kind of cut sometime as well. Drivers for peripherals also don’t work. At least I and people I know had to discard old hardware over the years, and that’s pretty much unheard of with Linux, unless you got some driver as binary only or whatever Nvidia did to occasionally break stuff.