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Buy one of the many laptops that work out of the box with GNU/Linux. Vote for manufacturers with your money. It's not that hard. I haven't had to spends days c

Buy one of the many laptops that work out of the box with GNU/Linux. Vote for manufacturers with your money. It's not that hard. I haven't had to spends days configuring anything for over a decade.

julianlam 6y ago
My colleagues often joke that I have to recompile my kernel whenever I want to do something novel with my computer. I play along, but I haven't compiled a single thing in years. I don't even think proper build tools are installed on my PC.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  I find that statement a bit dubious, but I guess if you only use tools that are in the repo and Chrome that's probably easy enough to accomplish. I remember fairly recently having to compile my own dosbox because of a many-years-old bug that remains unfixed and causes garbage graphics in black borders [0]. My history of using Linux desktop is riddled with crap like that. [0] https://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/bugs/447/ https://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/bugs/447/