I mean I just uninstalled candy crush in the apps list and moved on with my life. As far as issues go I would much rather deal with that than, say, not having the drivers for my extremely common wifi adapter on install, leaving me without an internet connection with which to download drivers until I figure out how to use my phone's mobile hotspot via USB, at which point I find that there aren't any bespoke Linux drivers for my extremely common wifi adapter, so I have to download some drivers gerryrigged from the windows version of some random dude's GitHub, and even then my internet speeds are consistently slower than on my windows install.
Because if something like that happened it would probably dampen any nascent desire to use Linux as my daily driver
And maybe it's different on 11 but on 10 I haven't seen any advertisements in forever? I just turned it all off in the settings. Yeah of course I don't like that it's there in the first place, but it's not too hard to get rid of on an individual level. Data harvesting is another thing but once you're at the point to actually care about that you'll probably have the literacy to download a script to minimize it.
As far as compatibility I already had the adapter before deciding to try a Linux install. The pitch of "try out this new operating system that may not work with your current peripherals" is not a compelling one for most people, besides.
And that really sucks! I'm just speaking from personal experience, and I've got other experiences with Windows that lead me to try Linux in the first place, though I'd wager that this specific issue is a more common occurance on Linux than Windows...
So, uh, something like that hasn't happened to me in at least 5 years. Have you had such an unfortunate experience more recently than that? Because in my (recent) experience, linux drivers tend to be pretty good (at least recently, and like, research your distro too I guess, arch and slackware won't install shit, but mint and other such user friendly ones usually will.)
I dunno, it just kind of feels like the era of linux being incapable of drivers (which was absolutely an era that existed) is over now, you know?
That's what I'd heard, but this happened to me like 2 months ago. It's kubuntu, which I figured would be mainstream enough to not have this issue, but apparently not
I mean I just uninstalled candy crush in the apps list and moved on with my life. As far as issues go I would much rather deal with that than, say, not having the drivers for my extremely common wifi adapter on install, leaving me without an internet connection with which to download drivers until I figure out how to use my phone's mobile hotspot via USB, at which point I find that there aren't any bespoke Linux drivers for my extremely common wifi adapter, so I have to download some drivers gerryrigged from the windows version of some random dude's GitHub, and even then my internet speeds are consistently slower than on my windows install.
Because if something like that happened it would probably dampen any nascent desire to use Linux as my daily driver
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Well there's your problem.
And maybe it's different on 11 but on 10 I haven't seen any advertisements in forever? I just turned it all off in the settings. Yeah of course I don't like that it's there in the first place, but it's not too hard to get rid of on an individual level. Data harvesting is another thing but once you're at the point to actually care about that you'll probably have the literacy to download a script to minimize it.
As far as compatibility I already had the adapter before deciding to try a Linux install. The pitch of "try out this new operating system that may not work with your current peripherals" is not a compelling one for most people, besides.
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I have had that same promblem with windows so...
And that really sucks! I'm just speaking from personal experience, and I've got other experiences with Windows that lead me to try Linux in the first place, though I'd wager that this specific issue is a more common occurance on Linux than Windows...
So, uh, something like that hasn't happened to me in at least 5 years. Have you had such an unfortunate experience more recently than that? Because in my (recent) experience, linux drivers tend to be pretty good (at least recently, and like, research your distro too I guess, arch and slackware won't install shit, but mint and other such user friendly ones usually will.)
I dunno, it just kind of feels like the era of linux being incapable of drivers (which was absolutely an era that existed) is over now, you know?
That's what I'd heard, but this happened to me like 2 months ago. It's kubuntu, which I figured would be mainstream enough to not have this issue, but apparently not