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I wanted to assess the interest. I wanted to know if there are other people out there who would love a linux laptop. This is actually a personal itch of mine. i
by akoder 12y ago
I wanted to assess the interest. I wanted to know if there are other people out there who would love a linux laptop. This is actually a personal itch of mine. i feel the only thing holding back linux is quality hardware which truly brings out the best in it. Hence, after gauging the interest here I have started communicating with a few manufacturers. So stay tuned! :)
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoYes that's it exactly. I've tried to use Linux on the desktop in several startups. Each time, the hardware had outstripped Linux support. We'd have raid scsi controllers; Linux would use them as single drives. We'd have good graphics cards; Linux would run in the lowest mode. So we switched to running supported OSs, with Linux running in a virtual machine for the tools we couldn't get otherwise. (We were building software for embedded Linux devices) I suppose it had something to do with Linux being done open-source. Which means it has to wait for some interested party to get around to supporting new hardware. I used to say, we could use Linux full-time once it had a 'have disk' button like other OSs. Meaning once I could install drivers from the manufacturer frictionlessly. I imagine all that's been fixed by now? I haven't been tempted to use Linux in 5 years.