On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 1:01 PM Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-08-07 at 09:53 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > As an aside, I've written off Gigabyte as damaged goods. Their tech > > support refuses to give you support if you tell them you're running > > Linux on their motherboards. Their hardware is MS-Windows only. > > Par for the course, unfortunately. My experience with PC hardware is > that they (*) always release buggy hardware, with the intention that > they can work around any bugs discovered later on in software. Of > course that's done by issuing a driver for Windows, that's if they > bother. And if they do, it's only for a year or so. After that they > expect you to buy new hardware, instead. > > (* All manufacturers.) > > Naturally, the thing was only ever designed for Windows, in the first > place. Whether that's simple because it's easier to only concentrate > on their biggest sales target, or due to oppression against Linux from > Microsoft is a whole 'nother argument. > > We're used to being last on the list to get things in Australia, and > what we might buy as latest release in a shop may well be a year or > more behind other countries. You'd expect bugs to be ironed out by the > time we get it, but no. > Canada is often used to test market new things, some of which are duds and never get wider distribution. > > Linux, on the other hand, does seem to have the advantage that if > someone can discover a bug and fix, we'll get it (without the > manufacturer's help or hindrance). > > Oddly enough, if you ferret around using Gigabyte and Linux search > terms, you find an old post about them supporting Linux. I guess that > was just a passing fad, for them. There are newer posts about Ubuntu > and their server hardware; but considering Linux is considered niche, > they may only consider Linux support on a few models. > > I've been lucky with hardware, new or old, finding things mostly worked > well on Linux, often better than Windows. On the odd occasion I've > bought something new that wouldn't work, the shops have been fairly > receptive about things that "I just cannot get to work." Probably > because it nearly always involves swapping it for something a bit more > expensive. I guess they'll probably just return it to the manufacture > as "not working properly" without going into much detail, or simply re- > sell it to the next muggins. > One strategy is to look for enterprise models that have been on the market for a few years and have a track record of linux successes and failures. Often failures are graphics, audio, or wifi where there are options that do work with linux. Used models are often readily available a couple years after introduction when normal business turnover results in large batches (off-lease, bankruptcy sales, reorganization, etc.) at vendors' refurbished system sites. -- George N. White III
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