German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by rich_sasha on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:12AM (#29266288)

I recently installed Ubuntu on an old laptop. Everything worked for a week. Then the touchpad stopped working.

There are many pages telling you how to debug a touchpad. I tried various incantations of installing, reinstalling, uninstalling drivers, one set or another. I ran some special commands to capture messages coming out of the touchpad - showing it actually, at some level, worked. Just didn't move the mouse. Nothing helped.

That it's even a thing to debug a touchpad is precisely what's "wrong" with Linux. Windows, crapware that it is, for me had never this kind of 1->0 failures. It's just all meh.

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by rightbyte on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:25AM (#29266472)

I believe the hardware stores state internally somehow.

I dual booted a laptop Ubuntu/Windows for a while. And if a closed down Windows with the power cable connected then the NVidia card would not work in Ubuntu.

The touch pad probably need some magic numbers to reset some state.

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