Is there a path forward for better support of newer hardware on desktop Linux?

[woelkchen@lemmy.world]

Yeah, especially for new AMD hardware a rolling release distribution is must have. My personal recommendation is openSUSE but the specific pick is secondary.

[oo1@lemmings.world]

Bring back the good old days of ndiswrapper.

[zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de]

Do motherboard/monitor/IC/etc manufactures need to submit their own kernel patches well in advance of product releases, like what AMD and Intel do for their CPUs and GPUs? Are we just waiting for them to give a shit?

Yes. There isn't really any other good solution.

[westyvw@lemm.ee]

I am really surprised how up to date Fedora is. The frequency is rather surprising. I have Arch on a desktop and Fedora on a laptop and the default kernel is only a step behind. Gimp was set as 3 for months now on Fedora which also was a surprise.

[thewebguy@lemmy.ml]

I'd argue that would make even less of an incentive for manufacturers to make Linux drivers.

We are already kind of seeing that in the gaming space. Why bother making a native Linux port if it works fine enough on Proton/Wine. We effectively end up with Win32/Linux

[penquin@lemm.ee]

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.

[westyvw@lemm.ee]

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.

[waspentalive@lemmy.one]

I wasn't around that early, was ndiswrapper, bad?

[waspentalive@lemmy.one]

Doing it ourselves might have the same effect though - "oh well, they have their own driver they are happy with"

[blob42@lemmy.ml]

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.

[oo1@lemmings.world]

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.