Linux dominates supercomputers as never before

Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before by GFK_of_xmaspast on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @02:31AM (#7942559)

I upgraded to ubuntu 14.04 on my reasonably late-model desktop from a major name and now my nvidia graphics card doesn't cause the x server to segfault and send me back to a login prompt when rendering certain fonts, but now my keyboard stops working after screen lock about 10% of the time and sometimes half the usb ports will shut down for no reason at all.

This is a little better then when I was hand-editing x configs back in the 90s but overall I'm disappointed.

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Re:Linux dominates supercomputers as never before by girvo on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @03:49AM (#7942711)

Gosh, I see so many people having issues like this... and get really confused, because I've ran Linux on my laptops for the past 4 years, and they've all worked completely out of the box with whatever version of Ubuntu was the latest at the time! And I don't go out of my way to pick a laptop that supports Linux, I just buy whichever fit my requirements the best.

Of course, now I'm just using a rMBP, but yeah, I wonder if I've just been very lucky?

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