But it isn't. Hardware and software support for a platform is decided exclusively by the hw/sw vendor. That's why I support the ones who do.
Does Linux make drivers harder to write than Windows or macOS? No. In fact there are many, many spaces where development is by far the easiest on Linux. Yet those companies choose that part of the market is irrelevant to them.
You might not care why there's no drivers for your joystick and use Windows, but it is 100% the blame of those companies, there's no debate about it.
Amarok 1.4 was the best audio player ever. My most beloved feature - changing queue position of song in a playlist with mousewheel. Second - could reorganize your files by Artis/Album/Song.mp3.
I remember having my friends over for parties and when they saw Amarok - instantly wanted to try Linux. It was, imo, the killer app of Linux.
When I switched to Windows 7 - tried to customize foobar2000 to make it feel like Amarok, but it wasn't the same. :/
Careful when using Clementine. It reorganized all my music collection, and it took me several months to revert all those changes.
It is partly my fault because I wasn't careful what I was doing. But I never thought a media player would do such extensive reorganization on file level.
That's how everything is with Apple: you use their software and their walled-garden. If you want to do anything at all, big or small, differently than how Apple wants you to do it, then Apple stuff is simply not for you. With Apple, it's all-or-nothing.
So really, if you're an Apple user, you have no business even joining discussions like this about non-Apple software or anything that runs on a non-Apple platform. You're basically trolling.
When video drivers crash - do all GUI applications still crash with the display server?
I've toyed with Arch during Windows 7 times - after hearing how linux is more stable than windoze/windblowz - and then nVidia drivers crashed, X server crashed, aaand upon starting X - all GUI applications were closed.
Are. You. Friggin. Kidding me? People were talking about stability when such things happened? Linux stability compared to Windows 7 - zero. At that time.
You might also want to think about using a distribution that emphasizes stability more. Arch is a great distro for people who want a bleeding edge, but it's strength is not stability. Debian is probably the most stable, Ubuntu LTS releases are decent as well.
> Arch is a great distro for people who want a bleeding edge, but it's strength is not stability.
This is an often repeated myth that just isn't true, (unless you have [testing] enabled).
I had a single Arch install survive for 3 years without any problems and that involved switching over to a new init system.
I only had to install Windows back on the machine because I went on to sell it and get a new one.
Yes but Debian and Ubuntu LTS both take more time to be sure everything is working and then don't mess with it. The "stable" bit there means less change so less chance of things breaking.
Can you recommend a better Linux experience for someone who wants to be able to turn their programmer-brain off when trying to watch Netflix? That's not a challenge -- if there's a better distro for civilian use than Ubuntu, I'd love to give it a shot.
Evil mode: it's the basis of spacemacs. If you don't want the complexity of spacemacs and you don't mind writing a bit of elisp to get your bindings working, it's worth looking at.
You're missing something. Spacemacs defines a lot of keybindings for many plugins and so on. Evil only defines the basic Vim keybindings. If you want more, you have to write it yourself.
Ofcourse, not hanging the website beats 400 ms.