I'm just telling you that it's wrong to assume hardware support problem will be solved by unifying behind a single distro, while in reality device driver devs are already unified behind the linux kernel project (not distro projects) and there is not enough manpower because there are only a handful of devs have necessary skill and willing to donate their time to support random devices in the market (and they need to have the devices on their hands first for reverse engineering). As linux marketshare grows, device manufacturers may be willingly support linux on their own, so your future scanner might eventually work out of the box on linux.
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Unless you have some plan to shame manufacturers into supporting linux, it WILL have to be a linux dev to do it.
With that many devs, it would be trivial to write FOSS drivers for everything, proven by the fact that this already happens for some peripherals
Again, I think you're mistaken here. The majority of linux devs are not working on reverse engineering device drivers here. They work on their own projects within the linux ecosystem. Working on reverse engineering a device is a hard work and volunteers won't do it except for a few very dedicated people like asahi linux devs. Rallying behind a single distro won't fix this unless the distro is made by a huge company willing to pay people to reverse engineers various drivers. Getting essential hardware works is important and that's where most volunteers device driver devs are working with, but I'm not convinced getting support for all devices in the market the best way forward simply because it takes too many manpower we don't actually have. Better spend that manpower on getting gnome and kde better, getting wayland better, or perhaps maintaining x11 again, etc.
Well fucking crack open the bottle of Chateau Le Fite’ 78 linux FINALLY has about the same marketshare as web connected leapfrog gamepads…
Linux desktop marketshare wasn't even 1% with no growth in sight until relatively recently, so yeah, off course people are celebrating now. It's now comparable to Mac marketshare (~4%) in early 2010.
All I want is an OS where I can do what I want to do without spending 3 weeks getting a fuckdamn scanner driver to work.
I think you're mistaken here. Getting a device hardware to work is not the distro job, it's the job of the hardware manufacturer. Even on windows, device manufacturers would submit their drivers to microsoft for certification. Some thing happen on linux, device manufacturers would submit their driver to kernel maintainer, but they must submit the source code instead of binaries so some companies that don't want to open up their source code due to misguided "trade secret" reason will never submit their driver to linux, even when the whole ecosystem unify behind a single distro. Some device manufacturers do release binary drivers for linux, but their licensing incompatible with the distros license so they can't be distributed by the distros.
Now you are just strawmanning
On the OTHER hand, if even only 20% linux dev worked on a single, comprehensive, user friendly and functional distro, can you imagine how quickly that would have killed windows?
Come one man, how is this strawmanning when you demand everyone to rally behind a single distro? Which distro maker got the most influence in linux development world right now? It's red hat with no close competitor in sight. Red hat's technical decisions already split linux communities. If they got even more influence, it's going to be bad for linux future. It'll going to be even more fragmented in a way that's worse than now.
Yet despite all the supposed problem you brought up, linux desktop marketshare is growing to 4% this year. Reaching 5% and beyond is not an impossibility in near future.
Not everyone need to run those adobe apps and multiplayer games. If you don't, you're in luck and should try linux right now. If you still want to run adobe apps and want to try linux anyway, you can install windows in a vm inside linux, even with graphic acceleration too if you have the right hardware. If what holding you back is game pass, then you're already balls deep into microsoft ecosystem and probably won't ever switch anyway.
The censorship only happen in lemmy.ml. If you look a the exact comment in another instance (e.g. https://lemmy.world/comment/8291179 ), it's not censored at all. Lemmy.ml is probably applying censorship directly in their local database.
Get your shit together, make a single LTS distro that doesn’t rely on repositories that arbitrarily depreciate core packages, and can install on 95% of retail hardware first try, INCLUDING laptops, then maybe we’ll revisit this.
Linux distros are not a monolith. It's not made by one single entity, but instead assembled from various projects runs by different people and companies. All the distros do are assembling them into a single system and add their own special sauces on top. How are you going to propose to unify all those diversities? Rallying everyone behind a single company like Red Hat? We all know what would happen when one company get to control the whole ecosystem.
In my opinion, having multiple distros competing on features is the best things that can happen to us. When one popular distro lost their way and start to alienate their users, there will be other distros those users can choose from. Imagine what would happen if there is only one distro and it starts to get shitty like what windows is doing right now.
A fraction of those "old" computers will use Linux. Perhaps we'll reach 5% desktop market share soon thanks to Microsoft.
If you use Tailscale or ZeroTier, you can use the private IP address from those services as node's internal IP in k3s/k8s configuration, and the nodes will connect to the control plane via Tailscale/ZeroTier network.
When that happened, Microsoft can fix their reputation again by buying more popular open source companies again. Nothing money can't fix. Maybe they'll buy Canonical next.
Python? Where? All I see is people praising Rust here. Also, Ubuntu? That's the most hated Linux distro on Lemmy.
I would be mad too if an off-centered ad suddenly appeared on my lock screen.
I think you should try it yourself, see if you like it. Who knows, perhaps it's not actually as troublesome as you think. You can always reinstall windows again anytime you want.