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Re: Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Linux development?

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Post by _cbdev »

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I've never had those problems with my laptops (though I exclusively use Thinkpads). Multi-monitor works pretty well out-of-the-box with the big desktop managers (Gnome/KDE), and even using xrandr manually is not that hard.

Audio with alsa has also been a painless experience for me, though I heard differently from some people.

Using Debian (which is not well known for always having the most up-to-date releases), I've as of yet never had to compile my own kernel to enable any of these.

Re: Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Linux development?

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Post by 3pt14159 »

vhf wrote: post #2

Lack of good hardware/laptops. I had a Lenovo X200s for over 4 years and finding a viable replacement is almost impossible. I am saddened by the fact that there are no i7 / 16GB / highDPI with decent keyboard at the price of a 2015 Retina MBP.

Same. I spend at least 2 days a year keeping my MBP installed with Ubuntu. Any major OSX upgrade and I need to reformat my Ubuntu partition and I'm constantly running out of space on both OSes. If Linux had proper video editing I wouldn't need to do this.

Re: Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Linux development?

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Post by jeletonskelly »

djent wrote: post #3
vhf wrote: post #2

Lack of good hardware/laptops. I had a Lenovo X200s for over 4 years and finding a viable replacement is almost impossible. I am saddened by the fact that there are no i7 / 16GB / highDPI with decent keyboard at the price of a 2015 Retina MBP.

Try a 2015 Dell XPS 13. Fits all your specs, also has a developer edition with Ubuntu already installed.

Developer edition is not out yet... I thought. I got one a couple months ago and run Arch on it. Support for the microphone hasn't made it into a kernel release yet, so I thought they were waiting for that to release the developer edition.

Also, it only supports 8 gigs max right now. I'm sure a 16g single dimm will come out eventually, so you could upgrade it yourself.

Re: Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Linux development?

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Post by jeletonskelly »

misframer wrote: post #6
djent wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try a 2015 Dell XPS 13. Fits all your specs, also has a developer edition with Ubuntu already installed.

No, it doesn't. The XPS 13 can only have a maximum of 8 GB RAM.

It's true, but I thought the limitation was that it only supports a single dimm and there aren't 16GB single dimms yet?

Re: Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Linux development?

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Post by ledbettj »

[deleted] wrote: post #8

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> If you want working multi-monitor support you will pretty much have to compile your own kernel, add custom repos, and manually configure X.

I don't think this has been a problem in years, and even 10 years ago I never had to compile my own kernel for multiple monitors to work.

Re: Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Linux development?

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Post by beefsack »

jeletonskelly wrote: post #13
djent wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try a 2015 Dell XPS 13. Fits all your specs, also has a developer edition with Ubuntu already installed.

Developer edition is not out yet... I thought. I got one a couple months ago and run Arch on it. Support for the microphone hasn't made it into a kernel release yet, so I thought they were waiting for that to release the developer edition. Also, it only supports 8 gigs max right now. I'm sure a 16g single dimm will come out eventually, so you could upgrade it yourself.

I believe the RAM is soldered on, upgrades may not be very feasible.

Re: Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Linux development?

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Post by axle_512 »

From my experience several years ago:

Distributing binaries for Linux was complex. libstdc++ compatibility across distros or different versions within a single distro wasn't great.

(Compared to Solaris, it seemed like libraries were always backwards compatible. Running old binaries always just worked.)

Re: Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Linux development?

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Post by r3bl »

[deleted] wrote: post #8

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I only tried working with one external monitor, but I had absolutely no problem with it what so ever.

Audio is working great out of the box for me and I had no troubles with the trackpad neither, which I did have on my Windows system (basically, I couldn't disable some of its gestures and trackpad worked even when my fingers were slightly above it but weren't touching it, which was highly annoying to me).

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