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No that’s emotionally abusive. Just when you’ve got it all working, one apt update and your GPU drivers start dumping core. And when you close the lid on your l
by hvgk 5y ago
No that’s emotionally abusive. Just when you’ve got it all working, one apt update and your GPU drivers start dumping core. And when you close the lid on your laptop it’s like playing Russian roulette. On the desktop it’s needy, brittle and like wading in sewage.
I use an ass end iPad. I can hear the laughing now but it’s the least abusive and time consuming thing I own. It just works and keeps out of the way. It’s also not perfect but it’s less imperfect than all the other options.
Edit: to note I spend a hell of a lot of time wrangling hundreds of Linux boxes. I don’t like taking work home.
- fsflover 5y ago> And when you close the lid on your laptop it’s like playing Russian roulette. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29430111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29430111
- kop316 5y ago> Just when you’ve got it all working, one apt update and your GPU drivers start dumping core. And when you close the lid on your laptop it’s like playing Russian roulette. On the desktop it’s needy, brittle and like wading in sewage. My spouse needed a new laptop, and I decided to get a laptop with coreboot/FOSS EC Firmware on it (A Purism L14). She also needed windows, and I was told that it should suport Windows through Coreboot. Since Purism wrote properly behaving UEFI and a properly behaving EC Firmware, Windows actually worked out of the box, and worked better on this laptop than I have seen for most vendors that actually support Windows. UEFI on it also behaves wonderfully. I see that and compare it to my current laptop where half the time, I cannot even boot into the UEFI menu (as it doesn't register my keybnoard presses) and have to rely on GRUB to get into the menu. I say that to say, when you buy a laptop/motherboard whose firmware is slightly better than hot garbage, of course Linux will have issues with it! Most of the time Windows is barely better than Linux with half of these things since their Windows "drivers" are a hotpatched mess.
- hvgk 5y agoI bought my spouse a MacBook Air. It just worked and I haven’t had to unfuck it once.
- fsflover 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309202