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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I have an old HP laptop like that. I use it to run Fedora Linux. I wouldn't use it as my daily driver though.
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No knock on Fedora, but that's a cutting edge Linux. Something like Linux Mint is designed to use stable releases, and it would be better for a casual Linux user.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I don't know about that. I remember using Ubuntu at the end of GNOME2 and the introduction of Unity. It was fun. But comparable to Windows? No way.
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That's twelve years ago. That's when Windows 8 was introduced. (Most people ignored it and kept using Windows 7.)
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Device compatibility was a huge problem. So much so, every Linux article would make some joke about connecting a printer.
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I just use printers that I know work well with Linux. Ditto for video cards and WiFi cards. (If I buy a laptop with a Broadcom WiFi I pay $5 for the Intel version.) Intel is well supported in Linux, both WiFi and video because the drivers don't have to be reverse engineered, the code is open. These are about the only device issues I know of in Linux.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Aye, there's the rub. Just relating to this message board: Good luck running K4PC or the Nook app (MacOS has the same issues).
And don't tell me about WINE.
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I don't like Wine either. As for K4PC, I don't need it. I do, however, need to run the Nook App (which is one reason why I keep a Windows partition).
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Yeah, but you don't need to tinker with them either. On Windows 10, I can run anything from video games from the '90's to Photoshop.
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I don't run video games, but I tell people that, if video games are important, you'll probably want to stick with Windows.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Again, I like and admire Linux. I don't mean to dump on those who use it. I'm just trying to explain why I couldn't move to it as a daily driver.
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I understand that. I do think you're judging Linux from the Fedora "cutting edge" prospective or by a Ubuntu version from 12 years ago. A lot has changed in that time. I've been using Linux almost exclusively for about 17 or 18 years.