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> I could spend a whole weekend getting a driver to work properly, and fiddling with kernel options. I haven't done that stuff since around 2005. I just instal

by ori_b 15y ago

> I could spend a whole weekend getting a driver to work properly, and fiddling with kernel options. I haven't done that stuff since around 2005. I just install a standard distro, and leave it to do what it does. It Just Works out of the box. It even detects my Raid5 and sets that up for me. Debian is my choice because of the rolling updates in testing -- I don't even want to think about version numbers. I use Linux because it means I don't have to think about package versions, I don't have to worry about finding drivers after installing, I don't have to search around for software, etc. Thanks to distro choice, I don't even have to think about what version I'm running.

jshen 15y ago
About a year ago I installed linux (ubuntu) for the first time in years on a dell machine. I had to spend a few hours fiddling with the video drivers to get it to work right.
Pewpewarrows 15y ago
If you're lucky enough to own a machine that works out of the box, with all of its components, while running Linux: all the power to you. I've owned many computers over the years, of all shapes, sizes, brands, and/or custom parts, and I've never had a single one "just work."
- ori_b 15y ago
  I've had it just work on a Fujitsu tablet, several Thinkpads, and a couple of HP laptops. And any desktop I've cared to try so far.
  - ineedtosleep 15y ago
    Pretty much what I was thinking. I've messed with Linux HP, Lenovo Thinkpads and Ideapads, and most other major manufactured laptops. From Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Slackware, Mint and plain Debian, I've never had major issues with hardware. IIRC, the last time I had a hardware/driver issue that pissed me off to no end was back before Fedora even existed.
    - svnk 15y ago
      I have an HP dm1z, and I still haven't gotten the wireless drivers to work (RALink)
- rbanffy 15y ago
  > If you're lucky enough to own a machine that works out of the box Actually, it's the other way around. If you own a machine that doesn't work out of the box, you are terribly unlucky.

by ori_b 15y ago

jshen 15y ago

About a year ago I installed linux (ubuntu) for the first time in years on a dell machine. I had to spend a few hours fiddling with the video drivers to get it to work right.

Pewpewarrows 15y ago

If you're lucky enough to own a machine that works out of the box, with all of its components, while running Linux: all the power to you. I've owned many computers over the years, of all shapes, sizes, brands, and/or custom parts, and I've never had a single one "just work."

ori_b 15y ago
I've had it just work on a Fujitsu tablet, several Thinkpads, and a couple of HP laptops. And any desktop I've cared to try so far.
- ineedtosleep 15y ago
  Pretty much what I was thinking. I've messed with Linux HP, Lenovo Thinkpads and Ideapads, and most other major manufactured laptops. From Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Slackware, Mint and plain Debian, I've never had major issues with hardware. IIRC, the last time I had a hardware/driver issue that pissed me off to no end was back before Fedora even existed.
  - svnk 15y ago
    I have an HP dm1z, and I still haven't gotten the wireless drivers to work (RALink)
rbanffy 15y ago
> If you're lucky enough to own a machine that works out of the box Actually, it's the other way around. If you own a machine that doesn't work out of the box, you are terribly unlucky.