>his operating system needs to be "activated"
>his kernel needs to be "compiled"
>>54535977
>His kernel is written in interpreted languages.
Poo in the loo.
I like my OS like I like my almonds
I bet you don't even activate your almonds
>>54536021
Shoved up your ass?
>>54535977
>His Kernel can't live patch
>>54536017
>his kernel isn't written in machine language
>>54537137
>his kernel only runs on one architecture
>>54535977
>His kernel does font rendering and scrollbar handling
>>54535977
I use a precompiled Linux Kernel.
Where do people come up with these compilation memes? Do they just throw buzzwords around to make windows sound better?
>>54535977
>His kernel hasn't been updated last dacade
>>54535956
>his operating system requires hours of trial and error, googling and shell scripting to install a single driver
>>54537258
Here we go. Yet another fucking may may.
If you don't have the worlds strangest hardware setup, All your drivers are going to work fine.
The only exception is (Quite Rare!) Video drivers and particular WiFi cards. I have never, in all the distro forums i have visited, seen a driver require creating a Bash script to be created from scratch to install a driver. At most it's a simple copy paste or DDL and ./install.sh
>hey anon let me see your computer I'll put on a good movie for us
>>54537258
Which driver is that?
>>54537297
Is that hard to do in Windows? I haven't used it in ages
>>54537294
I spent 3 hours at my job the other day trying to make an Epson scanner work on Linux. I ended up having to copy a binary file from the windows driver as part of the set up process, even though another part of said process was installing drivers provided by the fucking manufacturer which for some reason didn't include that file. Seriously, fuck you.
>>54537294
>If you don't have the worlds strangest hardware setup,
or
>any laptop
I've never once had a linux distro correctly find, configure, and support my wireless or sound hardware out of the box on a laptop
every time it's
>get other laptop out of cold storage
>google for an hour
>download all the shit you might need
>muck around transferring to newly linuxed laptop
>it doesn't even work
>run a bunch of shell scripts from /g/ and wikis
>now it doesn't even boot
>switch back to windows.
>>54537332
What's the model of the scanner?
Are you doing this in Wine?
Printer Driver != Hardware driver btw.
>>54537340
Can i ask what laptop you are running, sheer curiosity.
I've felt your pain with audio and WiFi though, GNU/Linux has it's problems with supporting partiular hardware.
For example
>Setting up OpenBox
>Install audio widget
>Alsa won't use my headphones for some reason
>GNOME settings makes it work fine
>Always switch back to GNOME
ALSA really is a pile of shit.
I've also noticed you call distributions of GNU/Linux, just Linux. I'd advise you to take a look at https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/short--undated--rms--what-is-gnu-plus-linux--1920p.webm
![[interjection intensifies].png](https://i.imgur.com/f04UHzD.png "[interjection intensifies].png")
>>54537396
>I'd advise you to
It's better for the linux community if you keep your mouth shut.
>his operating system cant "run" the new doom
>>54537137
>I dont know what machine language is, but I'll pretend I do anyways
>>54537349
I don't know. Why does it matter? The fact of the matter is that Linux is terrible at this shit. They just have to make everything complicated.
Wanna know what the process is to make an Epson scanner work?
First you have to install every sane package on your repository. All of them are necessary but none of them are interdependent for whatever reason. Good luck finding each of them by exact name in your repo. Somehow, a set of software just can't have simple names like "sane". Then you get the drivers from epson, which is actually just a very cheap front-end software called iscan. Could have iscan come bundled with sane? I don't know! Bundling software is so taboo on Linux because I have to be free to keep hitting my nose on the door trying to make simple things work! Get this: The driver is only available as an rpm. Good thing I had an RHEL based distro or else I'd be fucked. Oh, what's this? The rpm has a fuckload of OTHER dependencies it didn't come bundled with. Better hope yum is gonna find them? Well, now I'm set up, right? Oh, iscan isn't booting because of a missing binary. THERE WAS LITERALLY ANOTHER DEPENDENCY, NOT MENTIONNED ANYWHERE IN THE EQUATION.
Anyway, I got the proprietary software and the interface to make it work. All set up, right? Well nope. Error message when I try to use the scanner: "I/O error.". Oh, input output error. It's as simple as that. Might as well just write "fuck you".
Then I google the issue and find on Ubuntu forums (???) that you have to edit one of iscan's configuration files to point to a binary files that I had to fork off the Windows driver, even though I downloaded the Linux driver right off the fucking Epson website. It didn't come with all the necessary proprietary binaries! Where would I have learned I had to do this? God fucking knows. I just had to guess, I suppose! Nowhere in iscan's set up process is a config file even mentionned.
This is your fucking open source software in all its grace.
>>54535956
> implying I'm not using OS X LE CAPITAL as my main operating system
> implying my pirated windows partition was not pre activated by xxXXxpajeetxxaXzx
>>54537494
Get meme'd Applecuck.
>>54537468
>manufacturer provides shit driver
>it's the OS fault
ok
>>54537258
for me all my drivers automatically installed on linux. you must be referring to windows where you need to download each driver from a website or use a disk
>>54537468
>I don't know. Why does it matter?
Knowing the name of the printer seems kind of important since on the EPSON site you have to search the driver by model name you dumb fuck.
Are you really this illiterate or is just shitty b8?
>>54537468
Regrettable but I do insist that Epson is shit even on Windows. If you get the chance to try again you need to go with HP. They have the best overall experience on both OS, and linux is great because they have one universal driver for literally all their printers and one through hplip IIRC for scanning. Used the same driver for neighbor's 90s parallel shit and the two year old one I have via wifi. I don't recommend Epson, Canon, or Lexmark because even if you have windows it still sucks. Spend 20% more and get HP
>>54537294
Yeah but theyre nonfree in the end
>>54537396
>Can i ask what laptop you are running, sheer curiosity.
I've had a number of HP business laptops and Lenovo Thinkpads, issues with almost every one. Usually its wifi, but audio and card readers have also given me trouble
>I've also noticed you call distributions of GNU/Linux [...]
this meme:
more cancerous than dat boi
>>54537294
You also now have the option of ndiswrapper which I have never seen fail
>its another "linux users try to make their ""OS"" relevant by bashing Windows" episode
>>54537577
I reinstall Windows for compute illiterates and i've never had any issue with Ubuntu (use it to back up data), the fun starts after reinstalling Windows, I always have to search drivers becasue Windows update is half assed shit.
>>54535956
dank tintin meme
>>54535956
>not activating your OS
I bet you don't even activate your almonds faggot
>>54537199
Gentoo obviously
>>54537654
O shit waddup
>>54535956
>activates os
>doesn't activate almonds
>>54537294
two GPUs / SLI / crossfire is strange hw setup? cuz it never fucking works or glitches nonstop
