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"What I'd like (and I suspect many other developers would too) is a nice laptop that I can install Linux on, and have it Just Work." Well, the first thing I wa
by jshen 14y ago
"What I'd like (and I suspect many other developers would too) is a nice laptop that I can install Linux on, and have it Just Work."
Well, the first thing I want is for it to just work. Sleep/Wake should just work. The trackpad should just work. Etc. Oh, and it should all work well.
After that I would love to be able to install some other version of linux and have it just work, but having a Dell version that just works is a big improvement over things not just working.
- tammer 14y agoAgain, it's all perspective. iPads just work, closed game consoles just work. Linux can just work (until the next update) but a lot of the time it doesn't. And that's just the way I like it, because in the end (for me), its the only OS I can configure to such a degree that it lets me "just work".
- jshen 14y agoI'd rather have my trackpad, sound, sleep/wake, graphics driver, etc ... work out of the box than to have an extreme degree of configurability. You are right, this is my perspective, but for Dell it's also a matter of numbers. Which direction, if they can't do both now, will sell more laptops, cause fewer returns, etc.
- jebblue 14y agoThat stuff works as well as it does on Windows 7 (I'm forced to use Windows 7 at the moment on a contract); everything you named is as reliable, IMHO.