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What's exasperating is that this has been going on for literally 20 years: > Pretty much exactly 19 years ago I got on a train to Oxford and made Mark Shuttlew
by gwd 1y ago
What's exasperating is that this has been going on for literally 20 years:
> Pretty much exactly 19 years ago I got on a train to Oxford and made Mark Shuttleworth's laptop successfully suspend and resume using ACPI and that was the turning point in my entire career [1]
[1] https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/111249766634985812 https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/111249766634985812
10 years after that I bought a Macbook Air, and haven't gone back to Linux on a laptop since.
- pjmlp 1y agoWindows on my case, since Windows 7, although I kept a netbook with Linux around until it died. While I can understand random Joe and Jane are at the mercy of reverse engineering while installing a Linux distro over the weekend, I expect that anyone selling Linux laptops as OEM, to actually get the specifications and have everything working as any other hardware vendor.