An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere

Post by dennylfromga » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 2:39 PM UTC

partisan wrote: post #87

skraelingjar wrote: post #58

I bought a $250 chromebook and a new SSD just to run Ubuntu as my daily driver and it's been great! Of course I've written scripts to reload network-manager on wake, add the keyboard backlight driver back into the kernel after updates, and I can't let the battery dip below 2% or everything will be erased...

I bought a Dell Chromebook 13 with an i5 processor and I upgraded the SSD. In the end, I might have been better off getting a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, but I am somewhat smitten with this pretty amazing little machine. I am worried about flashing the BIOS and bricking it, but that seems to be the only way, apart from constantly charging it, to avoid loss of data.

Post by digi_owl » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 2:59 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #88

dman wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are the things you consider broken?

The last thing that happened before I gave up (around 2010) was purchasing a laptop with entirely open source drivers (ie, low end hardware I wouldn't have otherwise purchased), and compositing still didn't work on an external monitor. You'll probably say that's fixed now. I'm sure it is. I'm also sure it's been replaced by something else - I recall someone on HN saying one of Dell Linux laptops (ie, which are actual…

Post by digi_owl » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 3:01 PM UTC

greydius wrote: post #56

> How else can you stare at an empty screen and know that you have to blacklist your video card driver? Or sit in silence while tweaking alsamixer on the command line? Or write bash aliases to reload your network driver kernel module each time your laptop resumes from suspension? The good old days! I've been a desktop Linux user for going on a decade. Yes, it used to be a mess. Something only someone with technical a…