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I don’t think it’s a Linux problem. It’s a trying to run Linux on arbitrary hardware problem. On one hand that’s kind of the whole point of open-source. Becaus

I don’t think it’s a Linux problem. It’s a trying to run Linux on arbitrary hardware problem. On one hand that’s kind of the whole point of open-source. Because it can be extended to support almost anything it usually is extended over time by someone else that has already had the same problems you do getting a thing to work. That’s not the same as just assuming everything already works without checking though. There are some very suitable laptops that would have had support out of the box.

dwighttk 4y ago
Oh yeah definitely. I bet the experience would be at least a little better if I had ever wanted to switch to Linux and spent money on the effort. But I bought the (perhaps unspoken?) promise that it would be an easy test drive to find a crappy old laptop and throw Ubuntu on it… and those test drives ended up with me not wanting to switch to Linux.