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. 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. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.71.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 28 15:37:28 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
