Comment by ptaipale
8 years ago
I haven't had any trouble with Linux desktop on mainstream laptops for the past 15 or so years. The days of hand tweaking your Xfree86 configuration files and refresh rates are gone.
Of course there are things that are not working so nicely, and are not meant to. For instance, running RHEL (which is a server OS) on a laptop (which typically has new optimized hardware which is not meant to be server) and then expecting graphics and WiFi work on a kernel that is much older than your hardware and thus has no drivers.
Perhaps you might expect some trouble also when running Windows Server 2012 on a new laptop? I don't know, I haven't tried, but wouldn't be surprised.
> I haven't had any trouble with Linux desktop on mainstream laptops for the past 15 or so years.
And so therefore, no one else has either!
One of the big reasons Linux Desktop still sucks is the outright refusal of the community to acknowledge any of its problems.
I haven't had any trouble with Linux desktop on mainstream laptops for the past 15 or so years.
How do you define "mainstream laptop"? Or is it a laptop that can run desktop Linux without problems?