Fair enough, that indeed sounds like a regression (assuming your old device got officially supported hardware) and a lack of GUI settings. I 100% concur this sucks, both.
I’m still very critical when someone complains that “Linux” doesn’t work properly on a laptop. Most of the time it’s not the fault of any FOSS project, but device manufacturers doing wonky shit that requires device-specific workarounds or license nonsense making support hard to impossible. Especially power management is an issue with newer laptops (which of course doesn’t apply to you) sometimes not even properly supporting e.g. S3 standby because they expect very weird Windows-behaviour (not even standard S0 but some wonky other stuff). I see way, WAY too many “Windows vs. Linux” comparisons on Windows machines that then conclude Linux “not being ready yet” (sometimes even blaming the devs). Meanwhile FOSS developers are being utterly exploited.
No worries, it’s good to know that some people are still passionate :)
Yeah, I get what you mean though. Some people assume that Linux should be able to do everything that Windows or Mac can do, and assume that if it can’t it must be the developer’s fault. You still see the same old bullshit about ‘Linux won’t run Photoshop / my proprietary software!’ without stopping to think that maybe it’s the developer of that software who’s at fault.
It’s been going on for years, and is still infuriating…
Fair enough, that indeed sounds like a regression (assuming your old device got officially supported hardware) and a lack of GUI settings. I 100% concur this sucks, both.
I’m still very critical when someone complains that “Linux” doesn’t work properly on a laptop. Most of the time it’s not the fault of any FOSS project, but device manufacturers doing wonky shit that requires device-specific workarounds or license nonsense making support hard to impossible. Especially power management is an issue with newer laptops (which of course doesn’t apply to you) sometimes not even properly supporting e.g. S3 standby because they expect very weird Windows-behaviour (not even standard S0 but some wonky other stuff). I see way, WAY too many “Windows vs. Linux” comparisons on Windows machines that then conclude Linux “not being ready yet” (sometimes even blaming the devs). Meanwhile FOSS developers are being utterly exploited.
Sorry for lashing out a little bit.
No worries, it’s good to know that some people are still passionate :)
Yeah, I get what you mean though. Some people assume that Linux should be able to do everything that Windows or Mac can do, and assume that if it can’t it must be the developer’s fault. You still see the same old bullshit about ‘Linux won’t run Photoshop / my proprietary software!’ without stopping to think that maybe it’s the developer of that software who’s at fault.
It’s been going on for years, and is still infuriating…