I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle.

Turned off secure boot and tpm. Booted off a usb stick. Live environment, check. Start installer and wipe drive. Few minutes later I’m in. Ok let’s find out what’s not working…

WiFi check. Bluetooth check. Sound check (although a little quiet). Keyboard check. Screen resolution check. Hibernates correctly? Check. WTF I can’t believe this all works out the box. The touchscreen? Check. The stylus pen check. Flipping the screen over to a tablet check. Jesus H.

Ok, everything just works. Huh. Who’d have thunk?

Install programs, log into accounts, jeez this laptop is snappier than on windows. Make things pretty for my wife and install some fun games and stuff.

Finished. Ez. Why did I wait so long? Google was wrong - it was cake.

  • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 months ago

    Yes, if you don’t have a computer that literally came out this year, don’t have 2 separate graphics cards and don’t need HDR, or specific Windows-only software, Linux generally just works.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      5 months ago

      And sometimes the Windows only software is more “Windows only” and works with Wine

      Windows 3D Builder though is firmly in the Windows Only category though. Which is a bummer because in my experience it’s the best at repairing 3D models for 3D printing that have errors like holes, redundant geometry, inverted faces, etc.

        • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          5 months ago

          I didn’t know about the 16-bit support, which is really cool to say the least

          I see myself as still somewhat of a noob to Linux

        • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          5 months ago

          Lychee Slicer (slicer used for resin printing) is usually pretty good but sometimes it’ll still fail

          Which basically means I’d have 2 choices, go in there manually with Blender or fire up Windows 3D Builder and let it work it’s magic

          I haven’t fully given up on trying to find a way to get it to work on Linux but I’ve had to take a break from trying purely due to frustration

    • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      0·
      5 months ago

      Or a Mac ime. I tried to run mint OS on a 2016 intel MBPro and it was a disaster. I got it up and running but the Touch Bar didn’t work, the Wi-Fi didn’t work, all kinds of issues.

      • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        I got it up and running but the Touch Bar didn’t work, the Wi-Fi didn’t work, all kinds of issues.

        That’s because Apple doesn’t release drivers for all those components.
        Running anything but a Mac OS on a Mac is a nice pet project, but you can’t expect Linux to work.

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      You probably won’t be able to run an LTS kernel on a brand new PC that just hit the market. But using the most recent kernel for arch or a derivative like endevorOS should work after like a week maximum.

      I did have an issue like this on Ubuntu and its what made me actually start distro hopping since it worked fine on fedora and Arch using the latest kernels.

  • antihumanitarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    The moment that shocked me was when printers, network cards, and even motherboard integrated Ethernet didn’t work on Windows without driver downloads but Linux was plug and play. Full reversal of the situation.

  • Decker108@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 months ago

    I’ve used Linux since the mid 00’s and, well, I’ve seen some shit. But nowadays? It’s the best desktop OS I’ve used. I recently had to start using a Mac for work and realized just how far DE’s like Gnome and KDE have gotten. It feels like I have to fight MacOS every single day to get it to do the absolute basics, the things that Gnome and KDE does out of the box. And the most ridiculous thing is that the app ecosystem for MacOS is so heavily focused on monetization that if you purchase enough apps to customize the MacOS DE to an acceptable level, you’d likely have spent enough money to buy another laptop. Madness.

    TL;DR: Turns out that this year is actually the year of Linux on the desktop!

  • Wooki@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    Just came back to linux myself, installed and configured nixos on a brand new low power n95 processor with quick sync ect.

    Walk in the park for declarative config with very easy rollback. Its done 24hrs later, its working well, i dont have anything else to tweak and I am new to nixos as well as having been away from linux for a long time…

  • VerbTheNoun95@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    5 months ago

    I’ve used linux for twelve years and am still surprised at how easy some things are, not that things were really even that hard before. The improvements to gaming on Linux are pretty well known now, but even things like recording audio are dead simple now. Outside of the super expensive DAWs, I’d say linux is on par with Mac and windows now, especially with things like yabridge.

  • exanime@lemmy.today
    1·
    5 months ago

    In my experience the VAST majority of people that say things are hard on Linux have never actually tried it …

    Same with people that complain cats are not LoYAl lIkE DOgS… They have never had cats

  • Canary9341@lemmy.ml
    0·
    5 months ago

    Secure boot is still problematic, but it has also become much easier thanks to sbctl; in the best case you only have to delete the keys in the bios and run 3 or 4 generic commands.

    • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      Since the day secure boot became the standard on motherboards, about once every quarter a new research paper popped up, describing a new way to hack or bypass it …