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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
Over the weekend, I had massive issues getting Debian installed on my new laptop. It seems GRUB is massively messed up on (at least some) Apollo Lake devices and you need to use a different bootloader like rEFInd. Only took me like 9 hours to figure that out.
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And stuff like that is THE main reason why I don't use Linux on the desktop or laptop. There's always SOMETHING that doesn't work, or needs research and fixing that takes hours; time I don't have.
The only devices I've ever successfully used Linux on were:
- Embedded devices, where I started with a bare-bones installation, added only the stuff I needed, and then built my own stuff on top of tht;
- Older computers running recent distro's, so I know all the drivers are already in there and bug fixed.
Linux on new computers, especially laptops? Nope. It never, ever works without a hassle, and after you get it to work, it breaks every week. At least, that has been my experience.
And that's coming from someone who VASTLY prefers doing things on the Linux command-line and with the Linux philosophy as compared to Windows.
If Linux could just get to the point where they seperate the operating system, the drivers, and the applications, so you can install old applications on new OS-es, new applications on old OS-es, and drivers would work for 15 years... I think that would make adoption skyrocket. (Many Windows Vista/7 drivers for old devices still work in Windows 10... in Linux, if a driver isn't open source, today's driver won't work on tomorrow's kernel.)