"This wouldn't have happened on Linux" I say smugly, as I copy and paste a command from a 2008 forum post, three hours into trying to get my fucking WiFi working on Arch.

[/sarcasm]

@theresnotime People run Arch because they enjoy that sort of thing. Run a modern Ubuntu derivative and it's almost disappointing how little manual configuration things take anymore.

@alliecat @theresnotime until something is extremely buggy because of all the weird custom kernel patches or need unofficial proprietary ppas with things to make it work ok...

But yeah, I agree, for most people it can just work nowadays and that is a good thing 😎

@vascorsd @alliecat @theresnotime but that's the thing - if something is buggy on other OS', you can't do sht about it.

@untrue @vascorsd @alliecat @theresnotime i've made multiple binary patches because proprietary software on either Windows or Linux didn't do what I want

NVIDIA drivers, random vendor stuff, whatever

it's a question of skill