• @[email protected]
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    251 year ago

    What on earth are you guys doing having to search the internet for drivers for Linux??? You not buy things that have Linux support advertised? Not looking for good reviews by other Linux users?

    • be_excellent_to_each_other
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      51 year ago

      Yeah, with the exception of some network printers and surely some other corner case I’m not thinking of now (is broadcom/realtek wifi still a problem?) - drivers are generally already there or don’t exist.

      Having said that, I remember in my early days fully not comprehending that manual driver installs were generally not a thing with Linux.

    • Crass Spektakel
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      1 year ago

      I once needed the driver to use “Floppy Streamers” under Linux. That is plain impossible with Windows. For Linux it just meant to recompile the kernel-module each time you updated the kernel which basically was “make && make install”. Then at accessing /dev/qic-nst0 I had a Floppy Streamer.

      Yes, sometimes you need drivers under Linux. But it is VERY rare.

    • @buddascrayon
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      31 year ago

      This meme honestly seems like it takes place in the '90s. Cause back then you really did have to hunt to find drivers for Linux. Or cobble together your own using spare code.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        The original meme had a Bible, so you can guess the rest of the comic

        Correction: I doubt anyone can guess the rest of the comic, that’s how out there it is

        • @buddascrayon
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          11 year ago

          I’m quite familiar with the original comic as well as the author of the original comic and his various… proclivities.

          I was referring to the necromanced comic spawned from it that was posted here.