couldn't agree more. I'm all for hacking together hardware but these read like it's a solved problem, finally, linux on the laptop! Each and every time, the battery life is garbage, suspend is broken, and wifi barreeellly works, like it's 1995. And, in 1995 that was a cool feat. Today, these read like a broken record. Can we set the bar a bit higher beyond just booting into a shell?
And, these are just the issues out the gate. Unfortunately, these are dealbreakers especially when there are competitive options available that are not gimped.
Forking over 2-3k to see how far I get is something I have no appetite for.
Well without work like this and posts like these Linux would be a lot less usable. The first time I ventured outside of Windows I had to do stuff like configure ports and hunt down wifi drivers. Today for most cases it seems to "just work" and work like this ensures it stays that way.
Comments
couldn't agree more. I'm all for hacking together hardware but these read like it's a solved problem, finally, linux on the laptop! Each and every time, the battery life is garbage, suspend is broken, and wifi barreeellly works, like it's 1995. And, in 1995 that was a cool feat. Today, these read like a broken record. Can we set the bar a bit higher beyond just booting into a shell?
And, these are just the issues out the gate. Unfortunately, these are dealbreakers especially when there are competitive options available that are not gimped.
Forking over 2-3k to see how far I get is something I have no appetite for.
Well without work like this and posts like these Linux would be a lot less usable. The first time I ventured outside of Windows I had to do stuff like configure ports and hunt down wifi drivers. Today for most cases it seems to "just work" and work like this ensures it stays that way.