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I think the point was that most would rather just have a machine that works out of the box so they can do their actual work instead of 'doing their homework' on

• ronjouch 10y ago
  You're re-framing the context of "doing their homework". I agree you shouldn't be doing any homework to perform basic tasks such as "get [the] machine to hibernate, connect to wifi reliably, etc...". I'm not doing any of it on my Thinkpad, where these tasks work without messing around. And in an ideal world, yes, I'd love not having to ever think about it too :) . But in the current Windows-dominated non-Mac consumer hardware world, what I say is that you should be doing homework prior to buying a machine you expect to install Linux on.
• y_u_no_rust 10y ago
  My last linux laptop would have the it's backlight levels change randomly over time, every workaround and fix (changing the acpi settings in grub, different kernels, different xorg settings) did not work all of this only happened a few window managers (xfce4 was fine as I recall) I forget the details but it ended up being some rogue xcb messages or something All of this has lead to just using linux for my desktop and keeping it off my laptop
• halfdgvfyjjuc 10y ago
  OP meant on what machine to buy (something you'd probably do before buying a Windows laptop anyway). But if like me can't be bothered with even this then just buy a system 76 or an xps with ubuntu pre-installed... No homework required.