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I largely agree, though I'm willing to research my hardware as long as I have the idea we move in the right direction of software that is more stable and intuit
by slasaus 14y ago
I largely agree, though I'm willing to research my hardware as long as I have the idea we move in the right direction of software that is more stable and intuitive to use (and where user liberties and rights are central).
I just got disappointed in the seemingly new direction of Canonical not sharing my values. The vision and hope was exactly the energy I needed to fight all the non-working stuff.
- mgkimsal 14y agoI had wireless issues 10 years ago on laptops - things like "driver X works with card foo version Y.ZZ". I went out and bought card foo, version Y.ZZ, only to find it didn't work, and then would be told "well DUH, driver X doesn't work with Revision D, only revisions A,C,B and F". Basically, stuff that was impossible to find out before a purchase - laptop companies would ship different revisions of the same card out, and just ship the appropriate windows drivers on a CD - no linux drivers (of course). I got way too tired of having to deal with that, and even moreso of people replying "I've never had to deal with that - you were doing something wrong" or even better "Oh, it's not like that any more". Yeah, it might not be, but I was also hearing that it wasn't like that 10 years ago, when clearly it was like that. So... after a while, you become numb to the claims of fanboys who've been using one linux distro for 9 months and think linux is the best thing ever and "M$ sux" and all that, and you just get on doing your work with a platform that fits your needs. When your needs change, and your platform can't meet those needs anymore, fighting the platform to change when it won't doesn't make sense.