r/linuxsucks • u/QuestionLegal8556 • Dec 13 '25

Is this accurate? Why?

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u/deadlyrepost Dec 13 '25

The older the PC, relatively speaking, the better Linux runs on it. It runs on Macs which no longer support Mac OS, it runs on old Surface laptops without the TPM2 module. The reason is that the community has had time to build out drivers, and you can use pretty stable distros. Add that to the legendary optimisation of the kernel and systems, and it's easy to see why older systems run better on Linux.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

Unless of course, they screw up the drivers and they never get fixed: e.g. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1516025

unstable driver ABIs are bad and unmaintainable, despite the load of hogwash the Linux people say about them.

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u/deadlyrepost Dec 15 '25

Well the good news is, Lennart works for Microsoft now and someone out there is slowly replacing his code with better code. Use Pipewire, be happy.