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

[Peter Grant]

I've had different experiences:
I use Thinkpads for laptops in the past - I've had everything work on
them, and quite reliably too. I think having a particular brand name
helps - which oddly makes MacBooks and MacBook Pros a sensible choice
- I think there are some Linux people who take them as a challange!
However, when there's a new model be prepared for things not to work
until its been out 9 months or more!
Smaller brand names also seem not too bad - they often just rebadge
and use very standard (cheap) hardware. It's the middle of the road
products which produce problems: they're different enough not to be
supported when new, but too boring for anyone to be bothered trying
very hard to produce a patch for!
For the record, I currently have a year old MacBook Pro which triple
boots quite happily! However, I end up running Kubuntu on it where I
might prefer Debian - its much easier to everything working right!
Peter

"When you have a Swiss Army knife of a mind, everything looks like it
should be dismantled." Danny O'Brien/Merlin Mann


On 19 March 2013 12:49, Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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