Re:Why Ubuntu Linux is now ready for primetime
by Pewpewarrows on Saturday August 27, 2011 @11:53AM
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If you're lucky enough to own a machine that works out of the box, with all of its components, while running Linux: all the power to you. I've owned many computers over the years, of all shapes, sizes, brands, and/or custom parts, and I've never had a single one "just work."
Re:Why Ubuntu Linux is now ready for primetime
by ori_b on Saturday August 27, 2011 @11:56AM
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I've had it just work on a Fujitsu tablet, several Thinkpads, and a couple of HP laptops. And any desktop I've cared to try so far.
Re:Why Ubuntu Linux is now ready for primetime
by ineedtosleep on Saturday August 27, 2011 @01:15PM
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Pretty much what I was thinking. I've messed with Linux HP, Lenovo Thinkpads and Ideapads, and most other major manufactured laptops. From Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Slackware, Mint and plain Debian, I've never had major issues with hardware.
IIRC, the last time I had a hardware/driver issue that pissed me off to no end was back before Fedora even existed.
Re:Why Ubuntu Linux is now ready for primetime
by svnk on Sunday August 28, 2011 @09:09AM
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I have an HP dm1z, and I still haven't gotten the wireless drivers to work (RALink)
I haven't done that stuff since around 2005. I just install a standard distro, and leave it to do what it does. It Just Works out of the box. It even detects my Raid5 and sets that up for me. Debian is my choice because of the rolling updates in testing -- I don't even want to think about version numbers.
I use Linux because it means I don't have to think about package versions, I don't have to worry about finding drivers after installing, I don't have to search around for software, etc. Thanks to distro choice, I don't even have to think about what version I'm running.