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popekingjoe, in It's OK if you cry
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ndiswrapper flashbacks o_o

ace,
@ace@lemmy.ananace.dev avatar

Amusingly enough, one of the HP laptops I used in that era actually worked better with ndiswrapper somehow.

It was the only one to do so though.

popekingjoe,
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Miracles happen I suppose. :D

ace,
@ace@lemmy.ananace.dev avatar

“It’s a ndiswrapper miracle!” - a statement only uttered by the completely deranged.

Sowhatever,

Debían 3.0… good times.

EpicFailGuy,
@EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world avatar

BROADCOM …

folkrav,

I thought I had completely erased this from my memory. Turns out I did not. I would thank you if it wasn’t such a traumatic experience.

popekingjoe,
@popekingjoe@lemmy.world avatar

I am so sorry.

maryjayjay,

You are a bad person

popekingjoe,
@popekingjoe@lemmy.world avatar

I accept this.

thequickben,

Oh no. My broadcom laptop chip from 2005 was a major pain in the ass and this did not help 😆

popekingjoe,
@popekingjoe@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah those were some dark times.

model_tar_gz, in Yeah, very sorry that this app is Windows only, would love to switch to Mac

Mac users are at the sink right next to them also washing their hands. We don’t talk about the nasty things Linux users do with their hands.

fakeman_pretendname,

Are Mac users compatible with normal sinks and water or do they need an adapter?

model_tar_gz,

Apple will happily sell you a MagSafe dongle to dangle in the sink beside your neighbor.

victron,
@victron@lemmy.world avatar

Zing!

Default_Defect,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

Adapter, unless the EU forced them to change that.

DeepGradientAscent,
@DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev avatar

Dongle me harder, senpai.

wfh,

All those filthy command line arguments <3

model_tar_gz,

Yeah seriously. I don’t show anyone my bash history. That’s nastay.

MonkderZweite, (edited ) in It's OK if you cry

Scanner drivers are worse.

But are you perhaps referencing to the situation with Broadcom just incrementing their chips and drivers for years, flooding the market with cheap but quirky chips? Do they still do that?

0x4E4F, (edited )

Have no idea to be honest, I stole the meme 😂. But yes, I have had problems with wifi drivers on Linux. Not a lot, but still.

And yes, I’m still trying to get an old Microtek scanner to work in Linux 😔.

MonkderZweite, (edited )

Mine just stopped working with brscan5 driver. It was a fast and quiet mobile scanner with high quality output. The new one is bigger, slower and louder and runs 90% of time in some photo mode. 🙁

edit: clarified

0x4E4F,

Have no idea what that is to be honest 😂.

librechad, in It's OK if you cry

You can buy a external AR9271 WiFi adapter for $20 thats fully free software/free firmware.

0x4E4F,

Or switch wifi cards, have done that as well when there was no other option.

Archer,

Not in 2006

akatsukilevi, in It's OK if you cry
@akatsukilevi@kbin.social avatar

Am I supposed to have Wifi driver issues? My laptop's one always worked flawlessly without me having to even look at it

cholesterol,

Wi-Fi used to be a pretty common thing to not work out of the box or to break in updates. I kept a usb Wi-Fi dongle in a bag as a backup just because of this.

be_excellent_to_each_other,
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It's a really simple problem to avoid, and IMO has been for years. It's been at least 10 years since I've bought something without intel wifi so maybe I'm out of touch, but I'm kind of astounded there are so many upvotes to the meme.

My rule for a very long time has been: Get something with intel wifi, or even atheros wifi, and you will almost certainly not have a problem. Get broadcom wifi and your problem will directly relate to how much effort your distro has put into trying to make broadcom not be shit. Stay the fuck way from realtek and mediatek.

That's it. I literally can't recall a time since about 2010 when I had a wifi problem with Linux on any device I owned.

I keep two of these in my bag for instant wifi on any device I might happen to be working on that doesn't have it. Most recently popped one into an old desktop I picked up for my youngest son, and have used it previously as a workaround for someone who had a laptop where the onboard wifi worked but would not come back from sleep. (That was broadcom, IIRC)

0x4E4F,

Trust me when I say this, that wasn’t always the case 😔.

nebula42, in Wine being great
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Why do you need Ms office at all these days when you have libreoffice

Trail,

Online collaboration?

ILikeBoobies,
desconectado,

Because all your colleagues and collaborators use it because it comes free with the company…

Octopus1348,
@Octopus1348@lemy.lol avatar

Because it’s not familiar. Onlyoffice looks like M$ Word 2019 though, so I’d much rather recommend that to ex-word users.

Crow, in It's OK if you cry
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Yet the Bluetooth drivers are great. What gives?

0x4E4F,

Yeah, they came in later on and that’s why I think they were “better”… learned from experience with the wifi drivers. And they weren’t really better, most of them still use binary blobs.

DoomBot5,

Having coded against them, I’d argue that point. They’re just as bad as Wi-Fi.

beerclue, in It's OK if you cry

The last time I had an issue with Linux drivers was in 2002, trying to set up a pppoe connection. I had no smartphone and there were no YouTube, Reddit, wikis, forums etc.

Back in 2016 I helped install some wifi drivers on a friend’s laptop in Ubuntu 16.04, which was not really a big deal.

I feel like these memes are made by Windows users :)

umbrella, (edited )
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i find that the linux experience can vary wildly depending on the hardware you are running it on.

when it works it changes the way you use your computer for the better, when it doesnt its nothing but frustration and broken keyboards

0x4E4F,

I just think you’ve had the luck of not having a lot of unsupported hardware on Linux 😂.

Yes, in general, things are OK driver wise, but remember when we had to resort to ndiswrapper to get wifi working… yeah, that was a pain 😔.

Miyabi, in It's OK if you cry
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It’s insane how I just had this problem today. Had to tear out my network card in my Asus VivoBook 16. The drivers aren’t out for the MediaTek network card so I had to change it to an Intel one that I previously used.

0x4E4F,

Use that till the drivers get released… temporary solution, but there isn’t a better one at the moment 🤷.

Paranomaly, in It's OK if you cry
@Paranomaly@sh.itjust.works avatar

What killed my interest in Linux in highschool. Kept trying to get Ubuntu working but couldn’t get the internet to work for anything. Given that every help guide boiled down to “Go to this website and download x” and I didn’t have internet because… no wifi, I ended up getting frustrated enough to quit the whole thing. Maybe someday.

onlinepersona,

How long ago was this?

Paranomaly,
@Paranomaly@sh.itjust.works avatar

This was back in 2007-2008 ish. I believe the Ubuntu version was feisty fox at the time, if that helps.

onlinepersona,

I had similar problems at the time. It’s much better now.

Secret300,

Weakling, I had this issue in highschool as well when first learning Linux, I just didn’t do any of my assignments

Octopus1348, in Can you install thid 25 year old program?

macOS: Noo we broke compatibility with 64-bit and with Intel

MashedTech,

Or simply just: Too old version not supporting latest macos version.

THEY BREAK SHIT WHEN THEY RELEASE A NEW MACOS HOLY FUCK.

redcalcium,

Meanwhile, Torvalds: We do not break userspace, motherfucker!

MashedTech,

The love of Linux is great and ever expanding.

Octopus1348,
@Octopus1348@lemy.lol avatar

The cookie banner was really good.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

My company is currently working through this.

The entire dev team has Macs. Most have Intels. Many are on M1. Some are on M2.

Security/IT teams feel the pain, dealing with all sorts of weird things. And their solution lately is saying “fuck it” and giving the dev a M2. Which is a bandaid as what if M3 and onwards continues to break something?

Fortunately, my team builds software and runs everything through docker.

MashedTech,

I do the same. Docker buildx to the rescue.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not like this came out of the blue. The PowerPC to Intel transition was recent enough that it’s still fully documented on the web with forum posts by frustrated users. It’s Apple. Their attitude has always been that users have to deal with it.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

And yet they have a reputation for being easy to use.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

And yet they have a reputation for being easy to use.

That’s Apple brainwashing. Anyone who ever tried to offer remote support via TeamViewer probably knows how Mac users then fail to grant screen recording and input permissions to TeamViewer. Before they do that on their own, they can get any remote support.

nixcamic,

Mac: can you install this 10 year old program: no.

bingbong,

Me: can you…

Mac: No

Crack0n7uesday,

Are they doing full blown ARM processor’s now? I thought they still had enough devices less than three years old that still used Intel because of the COVID manufacturing delays.

ASeriesOfPoorChoices,

The last Intel device was the MacPro, last year. Otherwise, they basically went 100% Arm within a year or so. A very quick and complete changeover.

Not just cpu, but 100% Apple. I think there was a singular, last Intel modem?usb? chip leftover that’s been replaced now.

ahornsirup, (edited )
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As far as I know they still support some of their old Intel lineup, but it’s all ARM for new devices now.

charliespider, (edited )

More like:

Can you install this 25 year old program?

Mac OS: LOL! Buy a new laptop!

Somewhereunknown7351,
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Me: can you run this cool game I found

Mac: no

ilovesatan, in It's OK if you cry
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Am I the only person who doesn’t have WiFi problems?

be_excellent_to_each_other,
@be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social avatar

I don't think I have for more than a decade and I'm kinda amazed at how many upvotes this meme got.

Montagge,
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The one I had was completely minor. The wifi on my NUC doesn't work if you use the proprietary driver but it does work with whatever the kernel for Mint 21.2 has in it.

seaQueue,
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It’s not so bad if you’re running a major distro kernel and they do some prerelease testing before cutting new kernel packages. But if you’re using the latest release from the kernel.org stable tree WiFi driver regressions happen somewhat regularly.

be_excellent_to_each_other,
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Ah, a very common use case.

folkrav,

Why tho

chaogomu,

10-15 years ago, it was a problem dire enough to drive me back to windows until about the start of the pando, and I've not even thought about Wi-Fi drivers since coming back to Linux.

I did have issues with a cheap USB Wi-Fi dongle thing a few years back, but that was likely the fault of the dongle more than anything else, I know because it didn't really work under widows either.

Hominine, (edited ) in the main differences!!
@Hominine@lemmy.world avatar

What am I doing ricing KDE when I don’t even own a hoodie…

const_void,

Ricing? What’s that?

malijaffri, (edited )

Basically anything in !unixporn

Ricing refers to modifying your system to make it look cool. The term comes from street racing, where it basically meant improving perceived performance using cosmetics like spoilers and hood ornaments and stuff. Mostly form over function.

Also, if you don’t mind visiting, you’ll see more of what I mean over here:

old.reddit.com/r/unixporn

CarlosCheddar, in Every god damn time!

Me when I converted to btrfs from ext4. I went in blind and had no idea about sub volumes.

shunir,

Same.

0x4E4F,

I need it because of Timeshift, it works with subvolumes only.

MacNCheezus, in Yeah, very sorry that this app is Windows only, would love to switch to Mac
@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today avatar

Mac user here. I’d wash my hands too.

Octopus1348,
@Octopus1348@lemy.lol avatar

Another macOS user here: I wouldn’t.

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