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I'm seeing a whooole lot of posts about laptop hardware poorly supporting Linux distributions in this thread. I've been considering moving to a Linux-based lapt
by rpazyaquian 10y ago
I'm seeing a whooole lot of posts about laptop hardware poorly supporting Linux distributions in this thread. I've been considering moving to a Linux-based laptop for basic computing once my old MBP inevitably dies a horrible death, but these reports about poor hardware interfacing, broken features, missing drivers, etc. is making me less interested in doing so. Is this really such a widespread problem?
- htns 10y agoIf you go for an obscure distro it is. Ubuntu has good hardware support.
- rpazyaquian 10y agoI'll likely go for Ubuntu just because it's the most accessible choice right now, and the distro I'm most used to. In my case, is there a reason why I should go to other distros? I'm mostly used to distros like Arch, CoreOS, etc. being used for production servers and other specialized hardware over personal computing.
- htns 10y agoIMHO Qubes (https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/) is the only desktop distro with worthwhile differentiation. Most of the other distros' gimmicks fall under "who cares" if you just want to browse the web and program.