I did take a look there. I had it working before it broke.
I disagree that the growing pains are steadily going down, too. Maybe I’m just old, but to me the golden age of Linux “just working” is definitely not now. It was the early days of Ubuntu where the hardware itself was simple but the drivers were already new enough to be fairly standardized.
The thing that killed Linux getting bigger then was the lack of software support. Who knows where we’d be if those early “easy” distros had better, more hassle-free translation layers available.
Now? This is a mess by comparison. You have Nvidia with a near-monopoly on GPUs pushing proprietary features as a selling point, crazy multi-GPU laptops with a bunch of custom drivers, weird form factors, touchscreens, pens, arbitrary framerates and resolutions… it’s complete chaos. I’m not surprised Linux struggles to keep up (and Windows buckles under the pressure), but it still makes it harder to swtich.
Anyway, let this be a note that the handling of third party FSs and external mounted drives in Linux should get much better and Steam should start giving non-SteamOS distros some love, because some of these library bugs are old.
I did take a look there. I had it working before it broke.
I disagree that the growing pains are steadily going down, too. Maybe I’m just old, but to me the golden age of Linux “just working” is definitely not now. It was the early days of Ubuntu where the hardware itself was simple but the drivers were already new enough to be fairly standardized.
The thing that killed Linux getting bigger then was the lack of software support. Who knows where we’d be if those early “easy” distros had better, more hassle-free translation layers available.
Now? This is a mess by comparison. You have Nvidia with a near-monopoly on GPUs pushing proprietary features as a selling point, crazy multi-GPU laptops with a bunch of custom drivers, weird form factors, touchscreens, pens, arbitrary framerates and resolutions… it’s complete chaos. I’m not surprised Linux struggles to keep up (and Windows buckles under the pressure), but it still makes it harder to swtich.
Anyway, let this be a note that the handling of third party FSs and external mounted drives in Linux should get much better and Steam should start giving non-SteamOS distros some love, because some of these library bugs are old.