[GLLUG] Hi all.. question about hardware purchasing..

[Martin A. Brooks]

On Mon, March 18, 2013 20:33, Bilal Qayum wrote:
> But I'm pretty annoyed by the lack of decent hardware options for
> someone looking to run Linux with minimum fuss and hassle.

These days you need to be running some fairly obscure bits of hardware for
them not to be supported out of the box by a modern desktop distro.

The single hardest thing seems to be getting X accelerated correctly. 
Even that's usually a case of checking the "Use proprietary drivers"
button and rebooting.

I have a pretty modern laptop, a lenovo carbon x1, the only thing that
didn't work from a Kubuntu install is the fingerprint reader which I
wouldn't use anyway.