Every time I hear people complain about how Linux is going downhill, I'm reminded of the first time I tried to use it as a daily driver in 2006, and had to inject Windows wifi drivers into a wrapper to get wireless networking to work, and how I had to deal with Xorg safe mode to get Nvidia graphics set up.
I can understand the semantic arguments about where GNU/Linux falls short, and I enjoy exploring the promise of new systems that take different approaches...but, for all the crap, it's actually pretty decent for the most part.
I can understand the semantic arguments about where GNU/Linux falls short, and I enjoy exploring the promise of new systems that take different approaches...but, for all the crap, it's actually pretty decent for the most part.
@neal DKMS was kind of a godsend, since the modules could get rebuilt automatically and you could just straight up load new drivers without a major hassle.
@sean Yeah, I don't miss that hassle. The nice thing over on Linux is once you figure out how you want things to work, everything does a pretty good job of staying out of the way and letting me do whatever it is that I'm trying to get done. I can't honestly say that about Windows or MacOS.
