Stop trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Do your research, and use well supported hardware. This goes for Windows as well. There have been hundreds, if not thousands of poorly supported Windows hardware with driver problems as well. I was dealing with a poorly supported piece of medical equipment with crappy drivers about two months ago that took not only our IT team, but also our support team and the vendor’s support team. We had to escalate the issue within the vendor to the actual driver developer, before we could the the problem resolved. My point is that this is not a problem unique to Linux—any unusual or unpopular hardware with poor driver support can have this problem. The key, is to only use popular, well supported hardware. I am absolutely certain that your mouse experience was from using hardware that was not well supported—in which case, the kind of mouse that you used, not Linux, is the problem. Class compliant hardware is a standard, and does not give you these problems on Linux or Windows. Chalk it up to a learning experience and move forward with that useful knowledge.If the same problems occur on thee different systems with different Linux distros (and even more versions of those), can it be called a niche problem? I don't think so. I guess the mouse issue (which is by far not the only problem) has to do with the kernel not processing touchpad and mouse input separately. The only thing I haven't tried yet is editing the kernel. I can't find enough information on how to do that so I have to skip this step and wait for someone to finally solve this issue. Even if I could manage to run native audio software without the usual crashes, buffer underruns, GUI issues etc - working with a touchpad instead of a mouse is out of the question. Not fast enough, not precise enough. Not to mention that none of my audio interfaces work thanks to the lack of drivers. And because of that Linux remains office-only (Thankfully I don't have to print anything because printers don't work either).
Maybe I give SteamOS a try at some point. It could theoretically run some Windows programs.
Statistics: Posted by audiojunkie — Thu Aug 29, 2024 1:05 am