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This is ridiculous. The reason that things "didn't just work" in this case is surely that the OS was fiddled with to the extent that the kernel was recompiled
by jsvaughan 14y ago
This is ridiculous. The reason that things "didn't just work" in this case is surely that the OS was fiddled with to the extent that the kernel was recompiled more than once every 3 weeks.
It is hardly valid to compare that to a bog standard release of an OS.
If you are reading this and for some reason have not tried Linux, this experience is not remotely representative.
The laptop I am typing this on (Thinkpad, Ubuntu) - sleep works, audio works, camera works, wifi just works, 3g JUST WORKS, printers just work - better than in Windows, DisplayPort just works, USB devices just work - and I have been running and upgrading the OS for several years.
- rodelrod 14y agoI have the same setup and the same experience. More importantly, I've had the same setup for many years, so there's no pain, ever. I'm baffled as to why people keep changing OS and setups and repeatedly incurring the cost of change. It's just an OS, it's mostly a solved problem. Spend time fiddling with stuff that can actually make you more productive.
- reidrac 14y agoYes, I agree. In fact I can't see how distro incompatibilities or fragmentation affects a desktop user when you're using one distro. Icaza use case is far for the average desktop use case I think. I'm both Ubuntu (Dell) and Fedora (Dell) user, and I don't have/suffer any of the problems described in the post. I'm a developer and I install new packages/tools from time to time, with no problems.