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Will all of the hardware features function properly in a unix (or unix-like) OS? That's the apple laptop feature I'd like to see their competitors copy.

• tfh 17y ago
  Very few companies make the effort to provide linux drivers for their laptops. That made me buy a mac in the first place. It would be nice if some distro were backed up by a hardware company and feature a "bootcamp-like" easy way to install windows afterwards...
  • rbanffy 17y ago
    > Very few companies make the effort to provide linux drivers for their laptops I am sure the threat of dropping out of some "incentive" program that ensures lower prices for Windows OEM licenses is enough to prevent many manufacturers from providing adequate Linux support. As for the bootcamp thingie, I've seen Windows ruin my Linux boots more times than I can count. I am not sure it is considered a bug or a feature. Back in the Vista beta process (I was a beta tester) I filed a bug complaining about having to rebuild my lilo boot after installing Vista, but, AFAIK, it was never fixed. I must assume, therefore, it's considered a feature.
• mquander 17y ago
  It was shaky for a while, but yes. I run Ubuntu 10.04 on an Envy 15 and it works well. The two caveats are that kernel 2.6.33+ is necessary for patches related to the BIOS and ACPI, and a patch to synaptics drivers is necessary if you want the touchpad to work properly.
  • cturner 17y ago
    That's better than I've seen. What I'd be after to complete that is some sort of confidence that I'd be able to upgrade and have things continue to work. I've had the experience a lot of going to great effort to get something to work.. and then doing a kernel upgrade and having stuff break again.