I remember getting a "winmodem" working on Mandrake back in the late 90s and thinking I was the smartest boy alive.
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I'm not gonna listen to Geordi because he lives in an alternate universe where everything is compatible with everything else.
Ackshually... in season three episode seven "The Enemy" it is made clear that Romulan technology is generally assumed to be completely interoperable when Geordi could not connect his VISOR to his tricorder in more than a superficial way... Quote he: "they don't speak the same language". :-)
Option three: YOLO it and be the first to come up with a working config for it after ripping your hair out for weeks.
And then never tell the rest of the Internet...
Hey guys I got a wifi69 card, does anyone know how to make it work? NVM I fixed it.
(User disappears after the post and never elaborates, meanwhile replying to the thread is also a necro post and it gets locked anyway)
Or my other favourite:
How to make Gameguy xbox controller work: [posted 5 years ago] [Deleted by user]
I somehow came across a guy who seems to be doing exactly that first part for RGB control of Corsair products.
Dude will add support for your devices in a matter of days if it doesn't already exist, and won't even take donations for his project. The open source community is awesome sometimes.
Link? I have some rgb ram I'm waiting on something like this for. Happy to donate!
Awesome thanks! Has mine! Hopefully someone does similar for the NZXT Kraken Elite display, but I can live with the large temperature number.
This is all of Homebridge. God bless βem.
That's pretty much how I buy my phones: Look at the LineageOS device list, find the newest ones I can find/afford.
Same, but grapheneOS and max screen width (big hands / fat fingers).
That's easy
Graphene only supports Pixels
I've been using Linux for close to twenty years. What hardware database?
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It probably means this hardware database.
Rad, but my Lenovo model is not there, everything works perfectly though
They provide a tool called hwprobe or something. Probe your computer and add to their database
Please add your experience then :)
Thanks! I'll give it a spin. π
Weird how this often ends up with devices that don't randomly break after exactly 1 year
It's why I get AMD for everything.
While AMD is certainly better than the alternatives when it comes to device compatibility, we're still missing an open multi-platform cross-architecture compile-time standard (like a "C for graphics programing."). So long as that remains the case, the graphics market will continue to have a number of artificial barriers to entry that favor Microsoft Windows.
There plenty of other things to consider too, though, especially for laptops.
WiFi chipset, trackpad hardware, webcam, all can lead to a sad time with the wrong manufacturers and driver support
Modern devices are pretty generic. You can install Linux on just about anything.
Web cams tend to be USB devices and trackpads are often SPI. WiFi can be an issue but only with a handful of devices.
Yep, I never had a serious problem with any laptop from the last ~20 years (but I do usually use older hardware, my main laptop is from ~2018)
Honestly 2018 is fairly modern from a Linux perspective. I've seen people using hardware from 2005.
I think anything newer than 2014 is pretty good for Linux. Things made in the last 7 years are even better.
Well, the drivers have matured since then. And my latitude 5290 is a buisness laptop, so they usually don't screw consumers as much.
Yeah, my keyboard just straight up didn't work when I got my laptop; thankfully the issue was already fixed in a newer kernel so I just had to update (using a USB keyboard, lol).
Does wifi chipset matter on a laptop? Its just an m.2 Key E chip, should be easily replaceable. Cant imagine manufacturers would solder that on, its not like RAM
Yes it matters. Loads of manufacturers are doing soldered wifi on some of their models. Delll, HP, they are all at it.
And even if your wifi wasn't soldered, wouldn't it be better to know you were buying a machine where it would just work out the box rather than needing replacement?
Oof, yeah, thats awful.
Never been reliant on wifi tbh, I've generally been an Ethernet purist and have never owned a personal laptop (just desktops). Even for work laptops id use either onboard ethernet or a dongle
Intel is also a major Linux contributor
As someone with size 14-wide (US) feet, this is how I shop for shoes. Don't even look at styles or price, I just look for the pairs that are in stock in my size and that narrows the other factors down for me a lot.
Bruh, same. Except if it's a store I've not been too before. Then I just ask the first associate i see if they have 15's.
Maybe i have been lucky?, I did replace a mini nvme-wifi adapter with a intel one that worked once.
Well, intels almost always work, but mediatek...well it's not even worth mentioning.
Mini Non-Volatile Memory Express Wireless Fidelity adapter
M2 2230 very fancy naming.
Almost all modern hardware works fine
This isn't 2007
Almost
relevant
I've never had an issue personally
I'm not sure why you are latching on to almost. There will always be that 1%.
Well, to add my personal experience to yours, I've personally bought an off-the-shelf laptop "optimized for Linux" (from Tuxedo, to be clear). That should work just fine, shouldn't it? As it turns out, energy management does not, which is kind of essential, at least with a standard Linux installation that is not their own Ubuntu-based distribution or standard Ubuntu. They provide a management tool, but you need to build it yourself and the process is not documented properly. You'll need some experience and be able to interpret error messages in a terminal to find out where the issue is. Setting it up to start automatically on the next boot is another hurdle. I think that's not very nice, especially with this "optimized for Linux" claim. that might target newcomers in particular who try to avoid such issues.
The tool also requires a lot of additional node.js bloat, just to get your fans work properly and your laptop not to overheat. Sleep/hibernation also does not work properly outside their own OS/Ubuntu, and their advanced management tool with additional features does not work at all outside of Ubuntu/their derivate.
I've been there in the early 2000s, fighting with my network and graphics cards and I know it all got much better. Especially now that Nvidia support seems to finally become better. But let's not pretend issues don't exist?
been there in the early 2000s
That's my point. The state of Linux is very different now and manufacturers work to make sure that there devices have official Linux support. If you go with a well known brand you won't have issues.
Bragging about using Linux for 20 years doesn't work for something that changes rapidly.
That was not meant to be a brag, just to show that this is not a beginner's problem and that I can compare the change over time a bit. Linux still suffers from hardware support issues. Linux also supports a range of (older) hardware much better than others, but let's not pretend this is solved.
Good for you that the things you happen to have bought work for you, but that's just anecdotal evidence.