Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation
by crummy on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @09:45AM
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I feel like the "hardware is a commodity" ideal seems to conflict with this paragraph from the author:
> There are some other luxuries I've lost in the transition. For instance, if I want to plug in a USB microphone, headphones, and two displays to my computer all at once, I'll have to do some configuration through the command line to make them work correctly. Even getting the mouse to move the way I intend isn't as easy as Mac and Windows make it. Doing all these things is possible; it's just more work.
Reinstalling everything sounds like a pain if you have to mess around like that to get basic hardware working.
> There are some other luxuries I've lost in the transition. For instance, if I want to plug in a USB microphone, headphones, and two displays to my computer all at once, I'll have to do some configuration through the command line to make them work correctly. Even getting the mouse to move the way I intend isn't as easy as Mac and Windows make it. Doing all these things is possible; it's just more work.
Reinstalling everything sounds like a pain if you have to mess around like that to get basic hardware working.