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My experiences . . . Things like setting up dual monitors used to be such a major pain (for me) or hardware support like for a bluetooth dongle. I had some pr

My experiences . . . Things like setting up dual monitors used to be such a major pain (for me) or hardware support like for a bluetooth dongle. I had some problem with an intel chipset that kept crashing a laptop in 2005. I tried debian and suse varieties with no luck. I have a newer laptop with #! that works well now but I can't do things like VPN into my job because the software needs windows or mac. Basically this laptop collects dust unless I want to do use linux specific software which is rare.

kiallmacinnes 13y ago
> Things like setting up dual monitors used to be such a major pain (for me) or hardware support like for a bluetooth dongle. Dual monitors have got much easier over the last 3 or 4 years, at least on ATI. No clue about nVidia. .. and Intel graphics have always been rock solid on Linux. Before I got my 30" screen, I had 3x 19" spread over 3 different ATI cards. It worked like a charm once I allowed Ubuntu to auto-install the ATI proprietary drivers. > I had some problem with an intel chipset that kept crashing a laptop in 2005. I tried debian and suse varieties with no luck. Ugh .. That sucks.. Not sure that would have had a (reasonable) workaround :) > but I can't do things like VPN into my job because the software needs windows or mac. Another, that sucks. I've had no problems with OpenVPN, Cisco IPSec, Cisco AnyConnect, Juniper NetworkConnect and probably a few others on Linux.. But I'm sure there's still hundreds of pieces of VPN software that don't have linux versions (or re-implementations) --- Sadly - 99.9% (plucked from thin air) of Linux issues are due to proprietary software/drivers/etc. Of these, a good majority are easily replaceable with cross platform solutions. Pity :(
- yogo 13y ago
  My experience with nvidia is that it's just as easy as Windows these days. There's even a gui app that was probably inspired by Windows' monitor config.
- mattkrea 13y ago
  This is most of the case for me but unfortunately our company isn't going to rewrite internal systems just for me ;-)

kiallmacinnes 13y ago

> Things like setting up dual monitors used to be such a major pain (for me) or hardware support like for a bluetooth dongle. Dual monitors have got much easier over the last 3 or 4 years, at least on ATI. No clue about nVidia. .. and Intel graphics have always been rock solid on Linux. Before I got my 30" screen, I had 3x 19" spread over 3 different ATI cards. It worked like a charm once I allowed Ubuntu to auto-install the ATI proprietary drivers. > I had some problem with an intel chipset that kept crashing a laptop in 2005. I tried debian and suse varieties with no luck. Ugh .. That sucks.. Not sure that would have had a (reasonable) workaround :) > but I can't do things like VPN into my job because the software needs windows or mac. Another, that sucks. I've had no problems with OpenVPN, Cisco IPSec, Cisco AnyConnect, Juniper NetworkConnect and probably a few others on Linux.. But I'm sure there's still hundreds of pieces of VPN software that don't have linux versions (or re-implementations) --- Sadly - 99.9% (plucked from thin air) of Linux issues are due to proprietary software/drivers/etc. Of these, a good majority are easily replaceable with cross platform solutions. Pity :(

yogo 13y ago
My experience with nvidia is that it's just as easy as Windows these days. There's even a gui app that was probably inspired by Windows' monitor config.
mattkrea 13y ago
This is most of the case for me but unfortunately our company isn't going to rewrite internal systems just for me ;-)