I'm a father of four. I started out as a self-taught programmer, completed a B.S. in Computer Science and am currently employed full-time since 1998.
I also own a small mobile software company.
Driver support is perhaps the main reason I left Linux a few years ago. That, combined with certain rolling releases meant that my hardware stopped working every six months. I had whole desktop systems built around Linux-recommended hardware and that didn't help.
The other was the package manager situation. I don't know what the situation is now, but back then, being forced to upgrade my OS every six months just so I could get the latest FireFox became a nightmare (see my first paragraph).
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux as a concept. But the day-to-day made it too difficult to use.
I'm a father of four. I started out as a self-taught programmer, completed a B.S. in Computer Science and am currently employed full-time since 1998.
I also own a small mobile software company.
I wish it were that simple. Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandrake, Gentoo and Mint all had the same issues (yes, I distro-hopped while trying to find a good solution). Every six months a new update came out and, if you wanted the latest security patches, you had to update, which meant a day or two of fixing all my hardware.
I'm going to conduct an experiment with Ubuntu 19.10 this week. I realize it will be better than it was. Hopefully I can make it work for me this time.
You still get the latest security updates with Ubuntu LTS (and derivatives of it) - though Mint can be a pain due to the way the devs deecided to hold back some updates, which is why i don't use Mint
A lot of that has changed a TON over the years. As long as it isn't NVIDIA off Ubuntu, Realtek because that doesn't even work well on Windows 10, and Broadcom because Linux isn't a focus for them, the driver is most likely just fine and working. Also, editions for software can go back to multiple-year-old releases. Much better than in the past.
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Driver support is perhaps the main reason I left Linux a few years ago. That, combined with certain rolling releases meant that my hardware stopped working every six months. I had whole desktop systems built around Linux-recommended hardware and that didn't help.
The other was the package manager situation. I don't know what the situation is now, but back then, being forced to upgrade my OS every six months just so I could get the latest FireFox became a nightmare (see my first paragraph).
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux as a concept. But the day-to-day made it too difficult to use.
Well, don't expect a smooth ride with a rolling release distro
I wish it were that simple. Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandrake, Gentoo and Mint all had the same issues (yes, I distro-hopped while trying to find a good solution). Every six months a new update came out and, if you wanted the latest security patches, you had to update, which meant a day or two of fixing all my hardware.
I'm going to conduct an experiment with Ubuntu 19.10 this week. I realize it will be better than it was. Hopefully I can make it work for me this time.
You still get the latest security updates with Ubuntu LTS (and derivatives of it) - though Mint can be a pain due to the way the devs deecided to hold back some updates, which is why i don't use Mint
A lot of that has changed a TON over the years. As long as it isn't NVIDIA off Ubuntu, Realtek because that doesn't even work well on Windows 10, and Broadcom because Linux isn't a focus for them, the driver is most likely just fine and working. Also, editions for software can go back to multiple-year-old releases. Much better than in the past.