So you’re trying to connect a device to your PC which is literally made by Linux’ biggest opponent in the OS market who does not provide drivers for other platforms so that the driver has to be reverse engineered and then complain that this is a bit hacky?
I mean I will give you that it’s a difficult position for Linux but as I am just trying to get things done with my computer, I do not see it as a valid excuse. Especially when PlayStation controllers work just fine on Windows. ds4-windows.com All done via a GUI. Xbox controllers are the most common controller used. It uses the most common interface to use them, it’s hard to justify them not working out of the box, and on a lot of distros they do work out of the box.
Package management (including gfx drivers) can be done in YaST with GUI.
Yes, it can be. But tell me, how do you know what driver is currently being used? (or even what one to install, which Windows will tell you, some distros will tell you what graphics card drivers to install but nothing else.)
Luckily, linux drivers are provided as kernel modules and there should be no need to update, uninstall or rollback device drivers besides when the manufacturers don’t comply to open standards.
Clearly, drivers need to be updated or even rolled back. There have been updates to the open-source drivers. No driver is perfect so they do break things and need to get reverted. I don’t understand your point here because now Nvidia and AMD both use open-source kernel modules. github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules as well as the AMD ones github.com/radeonopencompute/rock-kernel-driver/ these drivers are constantly getting updates.
Despite all that, terminal is incredibly useful and can get tasks done orders of magnitude faster than the best GUI ever could.
I don’t care, my opinion differs. Linux is supposed to be the OS of choice and customization. I’d rather not drop down to the terminal. I feel like I can understand a GUI better. It’s not about speed here, it’s about accuracy and ease of use. I want to do the thing so I can move on to doing other things. Maintaining a computer is not a hobby for me, it’s a means to an end. I just want to have my computer work so I can get back to writing code, playing games, and watching shows. Anything that gets in the way is not really worth the time.
Don’t get me wrong, the Linux command line is nice, I’ve written in bash for the last 10 years, it’s far better than Batch or PowerShell and it’s why I use WSL for scripting things on Windows. I write automation for things like build scripts and uploaders and things to make my life easier but I am not about to do this for my computer which should be able to maintain itself for the most part. This is what Windows does and I do not expect less from Linux just because it’s open source.
I complain about the tasks that ideally with a good OS, I should only do once and literally never again until I reinstall my OS for some reason. On Linux a kernel will be updated and my graphics kernel module won’t have a new package for the new kernel and I’ll get bricked.