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  • As another software guy, I second this advice. Resolving a driver issue on Debian Stable or a Debian-based distro (for example) is typically much easier and would cause many fewer problems down the road than going to a less predictable OS to solve a driver problem. The underlying OS contains so much more software than a driver that the likelihood of introducing problems when changing the OS is way higher. I used to solve hardware issues by changing OS back in the 2000s when I didn’t know any better. Once I learned enough to keep a stable base OS and modify just the bits that need modifying, I stopped reinstalling. My main machine was last reinstalled in 2014. It’s been running Ubuntu LTS since then. Its hardware platform has been changed multiple times.












  • The competence to incentivise a wide range of specific production over the long term simply does not exist. We’ve long outsoourced that to the market and it has decided to stop making a lot of vital stuff domestically. We need a mindset shift if we want to regain any sort of practical independence from the people that make the stuff. Markets won’t do it. At least not without reintroducig significant intervention. We’d also need to develop the economic management competence to do it. Otherwise might keep jumping from one dependency crisis to another in perpetuity.