While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:
Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Login / Register
- Fedora KDE gets approval to be upgraded to sit alongside Fedora Workstation
- Steam gets new tools for game devs to offer players version switching in-game
- Palworld dev details the patents Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are suing for
- Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely'
- GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with a hundred classics being 're-released'
- > See more over 30 days here
-
Mesa 24.2.7 out now and Mesa 24.3 may come sooner than …
- KROM -
Classic Unreal Tournament and Unreal now easier to down…
- _wojtek -
The latest from Prime Gaming - November 14 edition - lo…
- MrDerby -
EA Anti-Cheat arrives for Battlefield 1 breaking it on …
- Scattershot -
Old Skies from Wadjet Eye Games looks like one to remem…
- crabel - > See more comments
- Steam and offline gaming
- Snak30 - Does Sinden Lightgun work?
- helloCLD - No more posting on X / Twitter
- Liam Dawe - Weekend Players' Club 10/11/2024
- Pengling - Upped the limit on article titles
- eldaking - See more posts
Mainly I'm still suffering from a nightmare with my Athlon XP and Linux more than a decade ago. :-)
However there is another company where just the name is causing bad feelings: Realtek Semiconductor. I had issues with:
- LAN Chips (Okay this seems to be solved so far)
- WLAN is still a nightmare
- 4 Years ago I remember issues with the HD audio chipsets with my actual PC - I ended up by disabling onboard sound and buying an external DAC. I know the issue is fixed meanwhile but I'm used to my DAC, HDMI audio and an USB headset.
Every Time I installed Linux on a peace of hardware containing a quite new realtek chip I was suffering with the drivers. It feels like that it take ages for getting solid drivers for realtek stuff and many of them never become part of the Kernel because they are not open.
Most other issues I'm currently remebering are more or less laptop specific like synaptic touch pad etc.
From my work I also have only experience with Intel stuff
Maybe I'm just to long with Linux and have to many bad experinces but I'm still evaluating if it runs under Linux before buying a peace of hardware.