Is there a path forward for better support of newer hardware on desktop Linux?
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I've run fedora for over two years and it was fantastic. I just didn't like how it shifted to flatpaks. I'm not a big fan of flatpaks, so I left for Endeavour OS and never looked back.
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I am using both in arch and fedora, depends on what I am trying to do. But I don't think I have ran into having to use flatpacks in fedora. But I am sure there must be some packages they no longer maintain.
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I wasn't around that early, was ndiswrapper, bad?
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Doing it ourselves might have the same effect though - "oh well, they have their own driver they are happy with"
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May I ask which motherboard was it ? I am planning to get soon exactly the same specs but with an X870e Taichi which is renowed for good compatibility with Linux.
Good advice is to ask in the Level1Tech forums before buying new hardware.
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Not really, it generally worked in the end - so in fact it's pretty great actually at getting you out of a hole.
It was just a load of extra steps - and usually a last resort after failing with whatever came on the installation disks.
So morale had taken a few hits before you even started with it.Everything is easier when you can connect to the network immediately.
Fair play to ubuntu (and i guess kernel improvements in early 2ks) - that was such a major step in ease of installation.
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Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7
I tend to avoid Gigabyte, but the only stock of 9800X3Ds available was in motherboard bundles on Newegg, so I ended up with it lol
I also noticed that Bluetooth still isn't working, so I am still waiting for 100% compatibility.
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Good to know thanks. For info all modern bluetooth chips have compatibility issues with Linux anyway.
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When i had 60hz in phone, i thought anything above that will be unnoticeable.
But if you use 120hz for some time, then 60hz feels so shitty.
And my 144hz display also seems pointless(while not gaming) but when i use 144 for few days and set it back to 60, i can defenitely feel the lagginess. I think that will be same for 240 or so. You would not notice when you see it first, but older one feels bad after using it -
Minor update on this: I ended up returning the Samsung G80SD since it was being a finicky piece of shit in other ways and got an HP Omen Transcend 32 instead (I know, HP sucks, but I have nothing but good things to say about my HP Omen 27i so I took the chance). Same exact 3rd gen QD-OLED panel but this time it just works
. 240hz, VRR, all good out of the box.So my point about the monitor is kind of moot, the G80SD just sucks, Linux is fine.
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Needing ndiswrapper was bad, but Ndiswrapper was salvation (okay it was fixed wifi, which is practically the same thing, to me...)
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without some sort of clear 'Linux Certified'
I think we will get there. Ironically, we might have 'Steam Certified' first, for alternate SteamDeck hardware.
I'm the meantime there's premium brands like System76 and Framework who are making Linux support part of their brand image.
