Subj : Re: macOS 26
To   : jimmylogan
From : apam
Date : Sun Oct 05 2025 12:59 am

 > I think Linux is GREAT for getting use out of old hardware
 > that might otherwise be unusable...

I tried installing linux the other day on two different computers..
neither worked properly. One, the wireless mouse wouldn't work unless i
unplugged the receiver and plugged it back in again, the nvidia drivers
with the latest kernel wouldn't work - (the latest nvidia driver) once i
installed the longterm kernel and replugged the mouse in every reboot it
mostly worked. Until I installed zfs from the repository so I could get
my files in, that worked but then there was a longterm kernel update, but
it didn't update the zfs module, and instead failed to recreate the
initrd, and instead of telling me (I assumed it had all worked, but upon
reboot it just kernel panicked)

The other computer, was intel graphics, with an amd discrete card (it's a
laptop) to start with it would not boot, the amd graphics wouldnt work and
made it kernel panic. until i used nomodeset on grub, and downgraded to
the longterm kernel, then it worked. (mind you, I'm not using the amd
card, just it's presence caused the kernel panic)

By worked i mean mostly, it was flakey and would freeze up randomly.

FreeBSD runs fine on these two computers, with essentially the same
software (kde plasma 6)

I would say linux used to be good, but in my opinion it's become a bit of
a mess in recent years.

Andrew


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