Nah, I've been using Linux since '98 when I tried out Mandrake. (Which became Mandriva, which is now Mageia...) Drivers suck on Linux, they have always sucked on Linux, and it's the big thing that is keeping the OS from becoming more mainstream.
When you say drivers just outright say it: graphics drivers. Used to be worse with WiFi cards, printers etc but the only one that is a sore thumb sticking out is nvidia still. I even have game controllers that just work by plugging them in. Driver support outside of nvidia is great in my book unless it's some specialised hardware, even my drawing tablet works great.
I haven't encountered an nvidia driver issue that didn't immediately fail and cause problems. If it affects your configuration, that sucks a ton, but on the upside it failed right away. All in all a much better problem than flakey WiFi drivers randomly dropping connections or your USB 3 ports being useless even for USB 2 or earlier.
The majority of stuff today either works or doesn't and that's really ideal, especially with that live image from which you install the OS. Can just do a pre-flight check with your preferred gear and make sure dmesg is clean before you commit.
I have honestly had less issues with my nvidia card, I mentioned it before but there was some AMD related issues, dunno if it was based on the motherboard but I recently checked the posts about the bug report again: people still have issues. It was a mess with stuff randomly crashing the driver and not being able to recover. I fixed it by going nvidia weirdly enough.
And yeah, that's imho the best positive you can just use a live-disk and test from there, have done that a lot before myself.
Oh boy. The linux fanboys will be along shortly to sperg out now that you fired off that signal flare.
Nah, I've been using Linux since '98 when I tried out Mandrake. (Which became Mandriva, which is now Mageia...) Drivers suck on Linux, they have always sucked on Linux, and it's the big thing that is keeping the OS from becoming more mainstream.
It's a tough one, because if they work, they work great. When they don't....boy you are in for a hell of a ride if you want to just try to fix them.
I owned a VooDoo 5 video card back in the day. I went 5 years without a working KDE driver for Mandriva for that card.
When you say drivers just outright say it: graphics drivers. Used to be worse with WiFi cards, printers etc but the only one that is a sore thumb sticking out is nvidia still. I even have game controllers that just work by plugging them in. Driver support outside of nvidia is great in my book unless it's some specialised hardware, even my drawing tablet works great.
I haven't encountered an nvidia driver issue that didn't immediately fail and cause problems. If it affects your configuration, that sucks a ton, but on the upside it failed right away. All in all a much better problem than flakey WiFi drivers randomly dropping connections or your USB 3 ports being useless even for USB 2 or earlier.
The majority of stuff today either works or doesn't and that's really ideal, especially with that live image from which you install the OS. Can just do a pre-flight check with your preferred gear and make sure dmesg is clean before you commit.
I have honestly had less issues with my nvidia card, I mentioned it before but there was some AMD related issues, dunno if it was based on the motherboard but I recently checked the posts about the bug report again: people still have issues. It was a mess with stuff randomly crashing the driver and not being able to recover. I fixed it by going nvidia weirdly enough.
And yeah, that's imho the best positive you can just use a live-disk and test from there, have done that a lot before myself.
Printers for networks or MFPs on networks are still a bit wonky.
TBF: those are also pretty wonky on Windows, I hate printers in general.