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A "high end Linux vendor" for laptops? Like what? And who would be that "somebody else", worrying about the drivers? Surely not the "high end Linux laptop vend
by foljs 16y ago
A "high end Linux vendor" for laptops? Like what?
And who would be that "somebody else", worrying about the drivers? Surely not the "high end Linux laptop vendor" --because, even though he would have basic stuff like the video card, wireless et al working, with anything not embedded in the laptop, you would be on your own.
- phamilton 16y agoThe main point being that you have less control over the internals of a laptop than you do on a desktop. So make sure all the internals "just work". Then you can do your own homework on externals.
- samd 16y agoLike System76. I've yet to have a problem with drivers on Ubuntu, in fact it's better than Windows. Windows seems to have separate drivers for each USB port. I have to plug my peripherals into the same port they were installed on or it doesn't work. Ubuntu doesn't care, it detects everything no matter where it's plugged in.
- ekidd 16y agoZaReason and System76 are two of the better known Linux laptop vendors. Generally speaking, the biggest problems with Linux laptop drivers used to be suspend/resume and the video card. Unless you were willing to put in a lot of work for each new release of Ubuntu, it was hard to get a Mac-quality experience. If your time was reasonably valuable, you were better off paying a few hundred dollars extra for a well-supported system. I generally don't worry about drivers for random USB junk. Nearly all of it works fine with Linux, and if it doesn't, it's trivial and cheap to replace. I can't wait for 8GB of RAM and an Intel SSD drive. Drool.
- elai 16y agoSystem76 has laptops with that option now.