On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 11:29:29AM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote:
> In part, Linux adoption is held back by it's perceived difficulty - such
> as having to go and find drivers for your hardware.

Well, about that... Not so long ago I helped a relative by installing
Redmontware. It was a long, arduous process, during which I had to fetch
and copy in drivers for six pieces of hardware. Most of those couldn't be
even found on their manufacturer's website -- I had to scour some random
seedy webpages.

Windows also doesn't provide any means to identify hardware (such as lsusb,
lspci, etc). On Linux, even in the worst case of completely unknown
hardware you are told at least hex USB ids.

Especially glaring was having no means to copy files to Windows being
installed.

I forgot the details why, but during the process I resorted to a small
Debian partition. Every piece of hardware was supported perfectly,
including even that machine's USB wifi card.

So that's it about the difficulty of installing and "having to go and find
drivers for your hardware" between Linux vs Windows. One of these systems
is egregiously behind -- and that's not us.


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