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I'm happy to pay a premium to never again have to deal with xorg.conf. All platforms come with a cost.
by st3fan 9y ago
I'm happy to pay a premium to never again have to deal with xorg.conf. All platforms come with a cost.
- foepys 9y agoFWIW, X configures itself nowadays and Wayland also just works. But I know where you are coming from. Everything audio related for example is still in very bad shape when you want more than Intel HDA.
- pjmlp 9y agoCanonical is not of the same opinion, they just gave up on Wayland for the next LTS release.
- vurpo 9y agoWayland may be ready for default in Ubuntu and Fedora, but they clearly didn't consider it ready for LTS. They have already said the next non-LTS version will still have Wayland as default.
- sneak 9y agoNow try hotplugging an external display.
- madaxe_again 9y agoYeah, except 15 years ago it was xf86config with xinerama if you wanted multiple heads, and lcds are a walk in the park compared to CRTs - I actually killed a nice 21” monitor by screwing up the frequencies. I even recall the delightful process of having to modify graphics drivers to work with the bizarre Chips&Technologies integrated graphics I had. At that point, OSX was such a breath of fresh air. Xorg.conf is a delightful stroll through a meadow compared to the nightmare fuel that came before, and in setting Linux (Kali,Ubuntu) on several machines of various spec over the last weeks, it has Just Worked.