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If anything, Windows 11 is the OS where things don’t work off of a fresh install (assuming it’s a self-built PC). It requires an internet connection during regular setup yet the ethernet/wifi drivers simply didn’t work. I had to cheat startup and install drivers through USB.
Bazzite on the other hand, worked instantly. The only thing needed was to set the right sound output.
painfull memories. mouse worked in instaler but not once installed. always something
For me it’s the geolocation of all things. Live USB can find my location in map and weather applications no problem but once installed it only gets my country right…
I had an old laptop where graphics worked in the LiveCD installer but not once installed.
Tldr it took a bunch of bootloader config changes to make it work again
It was kinda funny, when I installed fedora a few months ago, the wired ethernet port wasn’t working at first (needed an update, probably because my mobo was pretty new) but the wifi worked right away. Not sure what I would have done if neither of them worked tbh.
I have barely had any of those issues in almost 20 years of linux use. The worst I remember dealibg with was cups back in the day. Certainly almost everything I’ve installed linux on in the last 10 years has just worked.
The only exception has been installing linux on old chrome books.
It used to be pretty bad before hardware standardization.
So, are you trying to say it’s the year of the Linux desktop?
Lemme have a seizure real quick
See, this is why I like Linux Mint. I’ve gotten lazy in my old age and just want things to function.
The last time I had something not automatically detected was on a ~2003 obscure “gaming” laptop (or what passed for gaming back then)
When my laptop was pretty new, I would have to update Linux Mint’s kernel for the trackpad to work. The older kernel it defaulted to didn’t support it but the update manager could get a newer one that worked. The Wi-Fi driver actually worked better in Linux than in Windows.
Yup. Big fan of [distro]. Never had a problem running [distro]. I CHOOSE to open [distro]'s terminal because its so perfect i don’t ever NEED to.
I run Ironman btw.
Fuck [distro] and its fanboys. [Distro 2] is clearly superior.
Fuck [distro], fuck [distro 2], you plebians haven’t breathed until you’ve rolled your own Linux From Scratch
/j
It’s like magic.
Is this some sort of Ubuntu joke I’m too Arch to understand?
Right? Arch detects all my hardware. Its my favorite Gentoo install medium.
Me when lenovo
I get suspicious when everything just works on a laptop.
I never had anything NOT work on a laptop. I installed Linux on 5 of them.
These days, that’s pleasantly true :)
15 years ago was a different story. You’d have about a 50/50 shot of your trackpad working, one in three that your WiFi would work, and if you were hoping for a working webcam, you should just forget about it.
So even in modern times when you do an install and everything mostly just works, it still feels suspiciously miraculous.
These are the kinds of things that remind us how far we’ve come :)
Fedora originally did this… and then has slowly broken along the way and I’m getting too tired to fix it. First it was Bluetooth back around February due to kernel issues, then it was my trackpad a few weeks ago (can’t remember what’s causing it) so I have to use USB mouse now, and now I’ve realized that there’s no audio when I record with my camera, but I’m not sure how to troubleshoot it to figure out what drivers I’m missing.
The camera could’ve been broken for a while tbh, I haven’t had to use it since early spring when I had a Zoom class. But since my Bluetooth broke back then I usually switched to Windows to do my Zooms…
I bought a media center pc around 2000 and installed Ubuntu. The only thing that didn’t work out of the box was sound through HDMI. Figured it out the same day.
First time I installed Linux was maybe two years ago, and I watched a video that basically told me it’s best to start with something simple and install things as you need them, so I got plain ol Ubuntu.
Well it turns out it’s really hard to get basic shit working when basic shit doesn’t work. I was having some crazy dual monitor problems.
I’ve tried Pop and Endeavor now and I’m much happier.
