Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Is Linus Trolling The Linux Community?" video.

Their experience is typical. I can't detect any trolling there. These are not made up scenarios. This is the reality of every distro I have ever tried.
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You blame Linux because it is not Gigabyte's problem to translate a bit in a register to a user accessible function. They are making motherboards, not Gigabyte OS.
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@dmknght8946 Somebody who is not very smart. I didn't say that hardware driver GUIs are a good idea on Windows either, did I? You won't find them on Apple hardware. Apple is smarter. :-)
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@dmknght8946 No. Truce? :-) I do agree, by the way, that Linux is in a crappy place. It's not that easy to get commercial companies to support it. That has serious reasons that an experienced business person will easily understand. The problem does not have an easy solution. Microsoft and Apple can simply throw their weight and lots of dollars around. That route is not available to the Linux community, they have neither. What they could do (but won't because it violates the sacred ideology) is to make ONE high performance Linux distro for exactly ONE hardware configuration. That's what Apple does all day long and look how well it works for them. But then, Linux is not Apple, so why should it do the right thing, right? :-)
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The problem is not that things are different but that they are wrong. A desktop OS has to deliver an undisturbed desktop experience. It can not fall back to terminal mode just because somebody clicked "yes". What's next? Delete the kernel and leave the user hanging at the boot manager level with the message "Please insert a boot medium!"? That's ridiculous.
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Yes, the driver problem is the fault of the Linux community. They don't care to do what needs to be done to be "on the desktop". Just because something is hard (and costs billions, ask Microsoft how much they are spending on the driver problem) doesn't mean that one can blame it on others.
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