we live in a year
we live in a year
No, its atxhuall, like dis:
both parents out of the house working
This was largely the norm even in the western world up until the late 1940s. What sucks is that in the process we’ve lost “the village” to help raising kids and now couples just try and power through on their own.
It just works*
*except WiFi and sound
The downvoters don’t understand the pain of installing bluez and asla patches on some unsupported laptop running ubuntu 8.04
We’ve come a long way
Also: suspend breaks everything and you think Cups is gonna print that? lmao
I’m currently using broadcom-wl, and I was wanting to price out a more Linux appropriate adapter, but I want a pci-e card that is capable of monitor mode/packet Injection and just haven’t been bothered to actually look that hard. Just made me grateful despite the hiccups that it is as easy to get going as it is.
Basically load any distro and use Bluetooth or wired mobile hotspot to get proper Wi-Fi working and go from there.
The last few computers I’ve purchased have let me put the card in monitor mode right out of the box. I even do pci passthrough to a kvm with them.
I can’t even remember the last time I messed with drivers outside of installing amd graphics for rocm support. The open source drivers seem faster for games. It’s weird how much stuff just works out of the box now.
Last time I installed windows on hardware it was a saga to get everything working. You even have to modify the win11 installer to allow a local account without using ms365 but I guess it’s more friendly or whatever’s peoples excuse is. Windows does work pretty good as a VM with the fedora qemu drivers if you feel like running microsoft malware on your network like it’s the early 2000s.
Ahh, the bad old days where you'd do a clean install and windows would be an absolute basket case until you manually installed every driver. And then after all that you'd still have one unknown device in device manager that you'd pull your hair out trying to find drivers for.
Now you can install windows, do a windows update, and everything is good to go 90% of the time. And don't get me started on linux, we've never been closer to "it just works" than we are today.
Good luck installing your drivers on a fresh copy of Windows if your network card didn’t come with a physical installation disc, because if you have to download your drivers without a network card you’re going to have serious trouble.
There was a time period where it was absolutely easier to set up a fresh Linux distro than a fresh Windows install, because the Linux distro could use your Ethernet card to download drivers even if WiFi didn’t work but Windows couldn’t use either of them.
Yeah everything after 12.04 has pretty much worked for me no problem (on thinkpads). And nowadays I spend all my time on my steam deck.
In my view we’ve been in the linux golden age for years
“Sound not working” is the simplified version… im not quite sure what the source of the problem was and i was originally pretty sure that it was just a hardware thing. Sound worked* on my toshiba but would randomly do horrible sounds, like a really loud buzz… it wasnt the common noise interference.
The frecuency varied between 10s in a good day to 1s and of course, time between events wasnt constant. That made listening to music or watching videos a total pain in the ass.
Looked for it on forums, it was something related to my laptop model in particular and eventually i just let it go and accepted my fate. Driver up to date, of course.
The day i switched to debian the problem just vanished…
Me with Pop!_OS.
No messing, just install and everything looks good and works from the get go.
I got my first full linux distro at around that age too. High speed internet was a luxury back then!
openSuSE, she’s my first time🦎♥️