Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 30, 2007 03:02 PM
... is not "an OK laptop that is built for linux" but "linux to run on the laptop they choose".
Three laptops on, I have been lucky enough to get the linux flavour of the month up an running on each. I have been much impressed by the improving support for "relatively standard" hardware such as USB(2) and Firewire. Many thanks to the hardworking coders who made that possible. At the end of the day though, I buy a laptop for its capabilities. Its memory. Its graphics. Its sound. Its connectivity. If linux is not up to the challenge then it will get installed unoptimzed, limited or even gui-less and the amount of use it sees will reflect that. Regardless of whether its linux or windows I will optimize it to get my work done. I will tweak it to make my play fun. It will have largely the same software fitout. Hell with modern VMs it may have the other OS running quietly in the background. I will never buy a halfarsed bit of hardware kit just to "keep the faith" in the temple of Linux OR Windows. You keep your hair shirts and your corporal mortification. I worship the god of "Life's Too Full Of Sh-t To Go Out And Buy More" and he has only one commandment: Suffer not the fool who suffers intentionally.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 30, 2007 03:02 PMThree laptops on, I have been lucky enough to get the linux flavour of the month up an running on each.
I have been much impressed by the improving support for "relatively standard" hardware such as USB(2) and Firewire. Many thanks to the hardworking coders who made that possible.
At the end of the day though, I buy a laptop for its capabilities. Its memory. Its graphics. Its sound. Its connectivity. If linux is not up to the challenge then it will get installed unoptimzed, limited or even gui-less and the amount of use it sees will reflect that.
Regardless of whether its linux or windows I will optimize it to get my work done. I will tweak it to make my play fun. It will have largely the same software fitout. Hell with modern VMs it may have the other OS running quietly in the background.
I will never buy a halfarsed bit of hardware kit just to "keep the faith" in the temple of Linux OR Windows.
You keep your hair shirts and your corporal mortification. I worship the god of "Life's Too Full Of Sh-t To Go Out And Buy More" and he has only one commandment:
Suffer not the fool who suffers intentionally.
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