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Haha! Man, you've never been happy with any Linux distro, or even OS for that matter! (and no, your usual answer is wrong; if you have a problem with everything

Haha! Man, you've never been happy with any Linux distro, or even OS for that matter! (and no, your usual answer is wrong; if you have a problem with everything else, maybe the problem isn't with everything else). I'm surprised about your issue with the Intel driver, which I've found to be quite stable on Linux, but then I don't do any 3D in Linux. Is this on your System76 laptop? As for mounting a USB drive, that's patently false, see my comment above. Nowadays you can either use udisks, udiskctl (depending on which version distro you're using), or even good old pmount. I also contest your comment about how political bullshit overruns Debian and Ubuntu. If you think it's different or even worse than before, you're falling for nostalgia :) I mean, I sympathise with your issues, and I understand the frustration of having to fight something that you'd expect to just work, ("it's 2015 for fuck's sake! Why am I still dealing with this bullshit!?"). Of course, you're doing much more cutting edge stuff with 3D and computer vision, so you're probably tickling the bleeding edge of driver support in Linux. Nevertheless, you've had this class of complaint for 15 years. Haven't you bitten the bullet yet? :)

Iv 12y ago
It is the ThinkPenguin, yes. I bought it at an extra and with an underwhelming GPU exactly because it is designed to work nice on linux and only has devices that work with open-source drivers. Yet, the GPU fails under debian. After hours of tinkering and googling, I concluded I have the same issue as this guy: http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/11/12/debian-x-drivers/ http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/11/12/debian-x... Add to that that the basic install does not allow USB to be automounted by a user. I did manage to get this one to work after a wasted hour or two, but I don't consider it normal that this is not default behavior or at least very easy to configure. In 2015. Both these things worked flawlessly out of the box on a Ubuntu with KDE. As for nostalgia, I actually do not remember stumbling on a case like the intel GPU before: "We are holding bugfixes because we don't like the name of Intel's package". Actually, every time I try to go back to debian, I arrive with a ton of motivation thinking "this time I am going to look deep into the issues and solve them!". This particular issue had no good solution: it would have required me to install the intel driver and accept that my system would probably break at the next big update. I am used to the old proprietary vs open debate and the horror of binary blobs. Here it is not the case.

Iv 12y ago

It is the ThinkPenguin, yes. I bought it at an extra and with an underwhelming GPU exactly because it is designed to work nice on linux and only has devices that work with open-source drivers. Yet, the GPU fails under debian. After hours of tinkering and googling, I concluded I have the same issue as this guy: http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/11/12/debian-x-drivers/ http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/11/12/debian-x... Add to that that the basic install does not allow USB to be automounted by a user. I did manage to get this one to work after a wasted hour or two, but I don't consider it normal that this is not default behavior or at least very easy to configure. In 2015. Both these things worked flawlessly out of the box on a Ubuntu with KDE. As for nostalgia, I actually do not remember stumbling on a case like the intel GPU before: "We are holding bugfixes because we don't like the name of Intel's package". Actually, every time I try to go back to debian, I arrive with a ton of motivation thinking "this time I am going to look deep into the issues and solve them!". This particular issue had no good solution: it would have required me to install the intel driver and accept that my system would probably break at the next big update. I am used to the old proprietary vs open debate and the horror of binary blobs. Here it is not the case.