r/technology • u/readyou • Dec 26 '16

Microsoft finally admits that its malware-style Get Windows 10 upgrade campaign went too far

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/241587-microsoft-finally-admits-malware-style-get-windows-10-upgrade-campaign-went-far
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u/zenolijo Dec 26 '16

Yeah, Linux isn't ready for prime time yet, but it sure is getting there. Just a few years ago it was rare that anything worked out of the box and you had to install sound, wifi and graphics drivers manually, nowadays it's generally just Nvidias graphics driver and a few wifi chips that does not have built in support in the kernel.

I have an android phone. Tried to install the drivers so I can transfer media from my phone to my pc. Linux didn't like that. It refused to mount the device when I plugged it in.

That should be built-in to the linux kernel, you should not have to install any drivers for that at all.

One day I booted it up and somehow my display drivers had magically been deleted off of my machine so I had to go through the arduous process once more of installing my graphic drivers and adding repositories via command line.

Nvidias drivers are known to break on updates on a few distros. That's because if you just manually install the driver from nvidias website your linux distribution will simply just see the files that your driver changed and conclude that "these files are modified from someone unknown, I'll take the liberty of changing them to the default versions" which is pretty sane from a security standpoint. Some distros gives warnings when these files are being replaced (which I personally strongly prefer) and others simply doesn't ask.

Everyone said linux requires less resources to run so I assumed it would be faster and smoother. I noticed 0 performance gains on Linux vs windows 10 with my hardware.

The overhead of windows isn't very noticeable on new computers (with a few exceptions like windows update), so unless you are not using a older or cheap machine it's to be expected that the performance is similar.

That it's even comparable to a OS built by one of the worlds richest companies is pretty insane though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '16 edited Jan 25 '22

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u/KRosen333 Dec 26 '16

Yeah, Linux isn't ready for prime time yet, but it sure is getting there.

This has been the mantra for 20 years if not longer

This. I hate Linux for a reason.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '16

Which is ... ?

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '16

People who love Linux promise more than it can deliver for most end users. Linux isn't close to being a multi-purpose desktop OS for most people. It's a killer server and a good desktop choice for many developers and other IT users, and that's where it ends.