| This has always been my experience too. I've installed Linux irregularly numerous times over the years and it's never worked 100% properly on any PC I've tried it on. It suffers I guess from having to run on the same wide range of hardware as Windows does, but with a testing and driver development budget of around 50p and some bits of fluff... still, when it doesn't work, it's my time that gets sucked up trying to fix it, and I'm unapologetic about being unhappy about it. Things are improving compared to the past, though, because my latest install (Ubuntu 16.04 on my desktop PC) required minimal setup effort and only suffers from these problems: 1. volume control keeps popping up for no reason, and the sound stutters each time that happens 2. using 2 x NVidia GPUs disables XRandR, so some things don't work when I've got a 3-monitor setup 3. for reasons unknown, I can't get 2560x1440 on my 27" monitor (yes, I know, you can change the timings using XRandR...) 4. any time I click and drag in Firefox, Firefox crashes instantly 5. something crashes on startup on every boot (and, yes, I dutifully submit the autogenerated bug report) However LAN+wifi+3D work, and audio has proven sufficient for basic testing. Things could have been a lot worse. (Somebody on reddit told me "You have broken hardware or you're too incompetent and shouldn't be anywhere near any computer whatsoever". Well, everything runs fine in Windows... so, ouch.) |
But really, no need to complain about the nice things that you got for free.