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>or who just want really friggin' stable shit. Critically for potential desktop users, this means you can't necessarily expect things like touchpad drivers to
by Sir_Substance 9y ago
>or who just want really friggin' stable shit.
Critically for potential desktop users, this means you can't necessarily expect things like touchpad drivers to work. Hardware support, especially consumer hardware support, can take years to trickle into centos releases.
That stability may well be deeply desirable in a server that has to undergo security audits every so often, but it won't help you install it on a laptop.
- bonzini 9y ago> consumer hardware support, can take years to trickle into centos releases. Not necessarily, after all non-technical Red Hat employees run RHEL on bog standard Lenovo ThinkPads and model choice includes pretty recent hardware (and even some models with Optimus, lately). Technical employees mostly run Fedora, though some use RHEL and others are die hard Debian or Gentoo fans.
- justinclift 9y agoMany ALPS touchpads (very common) should work well in CentOS 7 these days. Back when I worked at Red Hat, making that happen was a side project that had good results. Main due to my using a Dell laptop with an ALPS touchpad at the time, and getting fed up with the crappy support it originally presented. ;)