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If you want it to work well you do have to be picky about hardware still, but there are absolutely entire systems that, out of the box, are well supported by li
by stormbrew 14y ago
If you want it to work well you do have to be picky about hardware still, but there are absolutely entire systems that, out of the box, are well supported by linux now. My Toshiba z830 was nearly perfect out of the box for linux. Basically is most of the stuff in your computer is made by Intel you're probably golden.
This isn't really any different from OSX in that there is literally only one hardware platform on which that OS is supported out of the box.
- innguest 14y agoIt's very different. The difference is OSX is only trying to target one hardware platform (and succeeding) while Linux is trying to target the whole range of IBM PCs (and failing). Before the era of the Linux on the desktop comes, we need an actual Linux desktop. Trying to target a whole host of hardware is too hard and unnecessary anyway - just copy Apple's strategy and let's move on to problems that are actually worth solving.
- stormbrew 14y agoWell, someone is certainly free to do that even if no one has yet. But the fact that I can buy a machine from a major vendor now that, without even advertising that fact, can run linux perfectly out of the box is a clear step-up over 2007.