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That's not a double standard at all. OSX having superior hardware support because it runs in a walled garden on hand picked hardware from Apple themselves is en
by city41 13y ago
That's not a double standard at all. OSX having superior hardware support because it runs in a walled garden on hand picked hardware from Apple themselves is entirely by design and something Apple put a lot of energy, money and dedication into. OSX absolutely should benefit from this over other OSes, as it did not come for free.
- nnnnni 13y agoExactly -- and Linux is designed to run on pretty much anything! This was a stupid article. "Gee, water is wet and sand is dry! (usually)"
- btbuilder 13y agoI guess it depends on the used definition of hardware support. Traditionally when I hear hardware support I think of how many devices are supported, not how well are the supported devices supported.
- masklinn 13y agoYeah basically there are two axis of hardware support: breadth (how much hardware is supported) and depth (how well the supported devices are supported). When people talk about OSX hardware support they tend to talk about depth, Windows or OSX is more breadth. Though the depth of OSX's hardware support is debatable as well, GPU support has historically been fairly dismal.
- fragmede 13y agoThe author's point is that there IS handpicked hardware from Lenovo (for certain models), by design, and something Intel, among others, put a lot of energy, money and dedication into. Linux absolutely should benefit from this over other OSes, as it did not come for free.
- coldtea 13y agoAnd yet, Linux doesn't have all that great driver support in that handpicked hardware from Lenovo. Lots of stuff have Win/Mac only drivers.
- DanBC 13y agoDo you have any examples please?
- coldtea 13y agoYes, I do. Most stuff in my field of multimedia, from top notch quality items available for other platforms (Apogee stuff, UAD Apollo, Black Magic Cinema camera) to prosumer products, including many consumer stuff which only have some community drivers that don't let you use all the functionality.
- jlgreco 13y agoIs that stuff hardware from Lenovo? I am not familiar with any of it but briefly googling it, it does not seem to be. I think you might be misunderstanding the claim that is being made.
- coldtea 13y agoHuh? The claim was just that Linux has good working drivers for the standard Lenovo parts? Trackpad, monitor, GPU, HD controller, sleep/wake-up, etc? That's barebones basic stuff. Of course that should work out of the box... It's all the other stuff driver-wise that matters...
- sn0v 13y agoMaybe this reference list should be more widely available, especially from major vendors like Canonical. Improving the visibility of the list by putting it up on the distro download page would certainly put quite a few minds at ease.
- Sealy 13y agoI'm willing to pay the premium and always do (willingly), every time I make that upgrade decision.