7/14/2023 0 Comments Sleep vs hibernate toshiba![]() ![]() I’ve been hearing this better, more drivers and more apps for years now. You think windows support is a nightmare, just think of the nightmare with various distros that have to be accounted for. What do you mean best hardware? – best drivers? Uhmm, you realize that you can’t just “port” Office to Linux right?Īnd I forgot, having a standard desktop Linux would also help in one huge way. There was no consolidation happening.Īs I said above two things should happen to improve linux situation in home desktops: Supporting linux with best hardware and then port all important applications from windows/Mac worlds. Novell didn’t have a distro before they bought Suse. Novell already merged with SUSE, and what was the result? However, the final solution must come at the OEM level. Linux and *BSD are doing a great job at laptop support despite these obstacles. Therefore, when we see signs of companies like Lonovo, HP (remember their Linux laptop?) offering Linux laptops (even if it is just a bare hard-drive with a Linux driver’s cd), it is a good sign. This is what they compare to when they pop in that Linux install CD. If people had to manually install Windows on laptops (which I have done many times), they would have the same hit-and-miss problems in Windows. I can usually get _most_ everything working on _most_ laptops, but that is not the average user. And please, no responses about “Well it works out of the box on my laptop”. To the end-user it is simple – it works in Windows, it doesn’t in Linux. ![]() It does no good to blame the manufacturers for their faulty ACPI implementations (which is true). It really isn’t a fair comparison with windows, where the drivers for everything are pre-installed. It is still quite a challenge on _most_ laptops to get all features working. I run Linux and BSD on all flavors of notebooks. The challenge to Linux notebooks is still there. Linux notebooks were not a rarity “even a year ago”. Oops, being ready for all users, and a significant number of users actually wanting it are two different things. The Linux desktop isn’t just for Linux fans anymore - it’s on its way to being ready for all users now. There’s a lesson in all this that all the PC makers, and all businesses, should hear loud and clear. Some further ramblings about how Lenovo does pre-install it, but they don’t, but they do support it, but they don’t, and at the same time having an imaginary conversation between himself and Lenovo. I recently wrote that Lenovo was the first of the major hardware vendors to seriously pre-install Linux - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, to be exact. And this guy is expecting them to become activists. ![]() They don’t even know what source code is. For example, he believes that users should buy music-players that support open music standard such as Ogg Vorbis.ĩ9.9999% of users want an appliance. He believes that users should fight with their wallets to make vendors embrace open-standards. ![]() Jon “Maddog” Hall of Linux International, on the same panel, believes that embracing proprietary binary drivers and codecs is a mistake. He’s right.Īnd so do these same people want to see desktop Linux ever get above even 5% of the desktop market? I guess not. Raymond predicts that many people in the open-source community will not welcome the whole scale adoption of binary programs in user-space. I’m sure he’ll be singing the same tune 5 years from now. Where have we heard that before? Oh yeah, it was when XP came out. Now, and within the next year and a half, as we see the 32-bit computing world give way to the 64-bit world, this is not only the time for the Linux desktop to strike, it’s probably the best opportunity Linux will get to try to displace Windows. It’s that he has studied the history of operating systems and he believes that the only time an operating system can be displaced is when its hardware platform changes underneath it. No, it’s not just that he sees Vista’s manifest failings as giving Linux a golden window of opportunity. We can only chalk his excitement up to breathlessly needing to proclaim that something is different this year. There was no sudden jump to the notebooks in the past year. My first “perfect-out-of-the-box” install was some flavor of Mandrake on a Thinkpad 380ed around 2000-2001. What does he think they were running at LinuxWorld 3 years ago? And these aren’t Aunt Tillys hanging out there. Even a year ago, Linux-powered laptops were a rarity.Īnd this guy is supposed to have the pulse of the linux desktop scene? Linux notebooks were not a rarity “even a year ago”. That doesn’t sound like that much? Think again. ![]()
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