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People who don't want to redo their Xorg config.
by usrn 5y ago
People who don't want to redo their Xorg config.
- noirbot 5y agoI don't WANT to redo my Xorg config, but I don't have much choice if I want Linux to behave like an OS from this century.
- adrian_b 5y agoA quarter of a century ago, the Xorg config was indeed the major problem of any Linux installation. Nevertheless, now that is extremely ancient history. During the last 20 years, I have been using Linux on all my desktops and laptops, without needing any Xorg config. The only exception is that now I have a couple of lines of Xorg config, which describe how my 3 monitors must be positioned. Without an Xorg config all would be OK, except that I would have to rearrange the monitors after each power-on. Of course, there was no need to write those lines of Xorg config, I have just given the command to save the current monitor configuration. So I cannot imagine what problems still exist nowadays that may require "to redo their Xorg config". All the problems that I have seen in recent years with Xorg had been caused by either a kernel compiled without some modules needed by the hardware, or by an Xorg server that was installed without some X device drivers needed by the hardware. With a complete kernel and X server, things should just work.
- adrian_b 5y agoI want to add that even if I have not seen for many years any problems with Xorg, on a wide variety of hardware, that does not mean that there are no problems with Linux. In my opinion, the worst hardware problems in Linux are usually with Bluetooth or with audio. I have not encountered yet hardware problems that could not be solved in Linux (unlike for Windows Enterprise, where I have met unsolvable problems). Nevertheless, in the case of Bluetooth and of audio, I have encountered frequent cases when the default configurations would not work and when finding how to make the right configuration was highly convoluted and unintuitive, so many hours could be lost with that. Even so, the difficulties of installing Linux versus Windows, Android or Mac OS are just a myth. Most users see that Windows and the other commercial operating systems just work, because they have been preinstalled by professionals on their computers. When you are the professional who must install Windows on a new computer and when that computer happens to be slightly non-standard, which is the case for most embedded computers, installing Windows is usually much more difficult than installing Linux. I have encountered cases when I had to work a week to succeed in making Windows have an acceptable performance on a computer on which Linux just worked from a live USB stick, without any problems.