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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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Oh you have a problem with your car? Just get a different one.
Same energy.
Well the different car is free though?
free as in beer yes, but not free as in the amount of time you will spend trying to install drivers for all your peripherals and then find yourself being castigated for asking for help in a GNU/Linux forum and being criticized by forum oldheads for not using the search even though you did use the search, but it only led you towards other threads which also all ended with terse messages to use the search, and then you're directed to a 1200+ page megathread on driver issues and told to spend the next three months parsing through it repeatedly before daring to post again.
These criticisms sound more like they're from 2003 than 2023. The only time I've ever had to "install drivers" when using Linux was back when I had an NVIDIA card, and even then a working open source driver (nouveau) came included by default, as is the case for most peripherals.
If anything the situation is significantly worse on Windows, where you still have to download .msi files from hardware vendors' websites to get even the most basic shit like wifi working on a clean install, and that's assuming you already know exactly what's in your computer to begin with.