i spent waaaaaay more time fiddling around with drivers on windows than on linux.
in fact, it’s exactly infinitely more, because I’ve spent exactly ZERO seconds on any drivers on linux since switching to bazzite last year.
the amount of driver bullshit, the bullshit permissions shenanigans for modding, and just all around bullshit i had to deal with under windows has just, *poof!*, evaporated under linux!
shit actually just does exactly what you tell it to do!
no weird black magic running in the background that nobody’s entirely sure about how it works, no bullshit UAC child controls, no bullshit updates and anti-features you don’t want and never agreed to, no bullshit up-sells, no ads!
it’s fucking magical compared to windows! <3
P.S.:
although, i do use an AMD gpu…
…BUT i did recently plug a 3080 i got for cheap into my weekend rig at my parents’ place and that also just worked without any configuration required sooo…maybe bazzite is just better about Nvidia drivers than most distros? who knows, who cares, it just works!
edit: also: modding games, mostly. plenty of tinkering around that needs a bunch of programs windows doesn’t like for various reasons. simple things like windows automatically inheriting permissions onto a drive that shouldn’t inherit any (and hasn’t actually inherited any at root level, so where the fuck did it get even get those from??), randomly changing access for nebulous reasons… there’s just sooo much nonsense to deal with under windows that i haven’t encountered even once under linux.
sure, I’ve had permissions issues, but at least those where my own fault! and fixing them was easy, transparent, and never reverted again for no reason.
i honestly no longer care to find out why windows was misbehaving (wasn’t malware, of that I’m sure. kept happening even on entirely new hardware), because I’ve just left that mess behind, and I’m never going back.
Yeah I’ll give you that for the life of me I don’t understand why exFAT drives seem to trip over permission issues and in such stupid ways. I don’t seem to have anywhere that same problem with ext4.
Like what is a person supposed to do with that? More partitions? While linux does have permission issues of its own I haven’t really run into a problem I can’t fix easily with one command line.
i spent waaaaaay more time fiddling around with drivers on windows than on linux.
in fact, it’s exactly infinitely more, because I’ve spent exactly ZERO seconds on any drivers on linux since switching to bazzite last year.
the amount of driver bullshit, the bullshit permissions shenanigans for modding, and just all around bullshit i had to deal with under windows has just, *poof!*, evaporated under linux!
shit actually just does exactly what you tell it to do!
no weird black magic running in the background that nobody’s entirely sure about how it works, no bullshit UAC child controls, no bullshit updates and anti-features you don’t want and never agreed to, no bullshit up-sells, no ads!
it’s fucking magical compared to windows! <3
P.S.:
although, i do use an AMD gpu…
…BUT i did recently plug a 3080 i got for cheap into my weekend rig at my parents’ place and that also just worked without any configuration required sooo…maybe bazzite is just better about Nvidia drivers than most distros? who knows, who cares, it just works!
Driver permissions ……in windows? What on are you talking about?
I use both Linux and windows. I’m confused what it is you’re doing exactly to have so many issues.
it’s a list, hence the comma separation.
this is standard grammar.
edit: also: modding games, mostly. plenty of tinkering around that needs a bunch of programs windows doesn’t like for various reasons. simple things like windows automatically inheriting permissions onto a drive that shouldn’t inherit any (and hasn’t actually inherited any at root level, so where the fuck did it get even get those from??), randomly changing access for nebulous reasons… there’s just sooo much nonsense to deal with under windows that i haven’t encountered even once under linux.
sure, I’ve had permissions issues, but at least those where my own fault! and fixing them was easy, transparent, and never reverted again for no reason.
i honestly no longer care to find out why windows was misbehaving (wasn’t malware, of that I’m sure. kept happening even on entirely new hardware), because I’ve just left that mess behind, and I’m never going back.
way, way better this way!
Yeah I’ll give you that for the life of me I don’t understand why exFAT drives seem to trip over permission issues and in such stupid ways. I don’t seem to have anywhere that same problem with ext4.
Like what is a person supposed to do with that? More partitions? While linux does have permission issues of its own I haven’t really run into a problem I can’t fix easily with one command line.
this is exactly it!
linux does have some issues, but it’s almost always a simple fix, and damn near never the OS’ fault.
so much better!
at least i only get mad at myself, which is much easier to deal with…