
Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C. writes:
On 11 October 2012 22:53, Brandon Allbery
wrote:
I'd even be willing to put up with driver hell if the UI weren't just so horrid.
I don't which kind of computer do you guys have, but I bought this laptop about 3 years ago with intel components, installed arch linux and there weren't any "driver hell". Everything worked out-of-the-box.
Says the guy whose computer couldn't hibernate for the last 5 years.
End-user friendly distros like linux mint or ubuntu configures everything automagically (which I don't like for myself, but it's okay for most people) so I feel like we are speaking about "linuxes" around the 2000's.
Oh, they've made great progress since then, but there's still so much stuff that is so horribly broken. That's ok for all sorts of experimental fringe things that allow me to do the wacky /sui generis/ stuff. I love Linux for the freedom it gives me to waste lots of my time on trying to come up with schemes that save lots of my time. But I don't need anything /sui generis/ about 1. WiFi 2. Backups 3. Hibernation These are all so fundamental and so obvious that the should just work, dammit. Linux comes woefully short on this front, even today.