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To be blunt, those i915 GPU drivers are shit. I battled a brand new Dell XPS 13 for like two weeks before I hit a stable mix. Once I fixed everything it is grea
by bitexploder 9y ago
To be blunt, those i915 GPU drivers are shit. I battled a brand new Dell XPS 13 for like two weeks before I hit a stable mix. Once I fixed everything it is great.
In particular virt-manager/virt-viewer/libvirt/KVM have come a long way. I don't need Workstation or Virtualbox any longer. Having Docker and a real X11 server is nice. Everything /generally/ works. A few things I have to run a VM for like Webex.....
Regardless I don't think I experience much more bugginess than my Mac peers now, and most things work out of the box.
Linux on the desktop: Most things work out of the box ;)
- gtaylor 9y agoMy XPS 15 with i915 + Mobile Nvidia GPU has been really un-fun to deal with, but it's finally getting better now. Docking and undocking is still an adventure every time, though.
- bitexploder 9y agoIt's interesting, most of our company is on Macs and people experience lots of issues waking up from sleep. Mac didn't used to be that way for many years. I run i3 and just logout before any sort of monitor changing.
- gdamjan1 9y ago> To be blunt, those i915 GPU drivers are shit. these days, for stability it's prefereable to use the modesetting X driver (comes with xorg-server /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so) instead of the xf86-video-intel driver.