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unix and build quality / stability

• curiousgal 10y ago
  I get the build quality argument but the lack stability made sense years ago, Linux runs almost perfectly on many cheap laptops these days.
  • awinder 10y ago
    I can't find a great windowing environment still, mind sharing your setup? For me, quartz is still light years ahead in the quality department over things like gnome and kde, though some of the new work on wayland wms looks promising
  • alexanderchr 10y ago
    My experience the last few years has been that Linux works good enough on most laptops but that there are some rough edges. Everything works, but the laptop will only go to sleep 50% of the times you close the lid or the display brightness will automatically drop to 10% when you leave the laptop for 2 minutes and not go back when you start using it again or the wifi will drop for half a minute every 30 minutes. Nothing dealbreaking really, just annoying. But I don't experience these kind of things when using the OS the laptops was shipped with (OSX/Windows) and would love to see more Linux certified hardware like Dell's XPS.
    • eth0up 10y ago
      Running Debian Unstable on a 2008 Macbook 4,1 and it's working quite well. The GPT partition was a bit tricky, but after that all has gone well but the camera, which doesn't work without proprietary firmware from yonder the repos. It's pretty cool to see an 8-9 year-old laptop with good battery life and reasonable performance. First time I ever fussed with a Mac and I'm glad I did. Also, I totally nixed the Mac OS partitions, for single boot.