Yeah. With Windows, drivers come on disk and sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.
With Linux, either (a) the drivers are there and everything is lovely! or (b) you're out of luck. Ubuntu lets you put on some proprietary drivers, but they're not going to be persistent with the live version. On 14 November 2014 13:49, Tres Finocchiaro <tres.finocchi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I'm already strongly considering reinstalling it entirely because it's >> > "not too much effort". > > > That's a tremendous advantage Linux has over proprietary OSs, it's quick to > install and comes bundled with most of what you need. > > The disadvantage is that it's in a constant battle to work with closed and > proprietary hardware and protocols. > > For example, MSN seems to have just blacklisted Pidgin from working with its > services (half expected since the purchase of Skype). Now the Pidgin > mailing list is getting inundated with emails like "Can't connect to Pidgin > server". > > Another advantage is that with tools like Wine, Cmake and Mingw, we can do > much more from a build perspective than Windows could (try building a Linux > binary on Windows... ) > > What you are really simulating is an "embedded" linux installation (which > the root filesystem rarely changes) but in my experience these things have > limited success. > > Installing to disk will most likely fix all of your problems, if that is an > option. > > Additionally, if you don't need good audio playback, VirtualBox can have you > developing in no time (or if you are really courageous, run Windows in > VirtualBox and run Linux as primary) > > -Tres > > - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Spekular R <spekul...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Live, not installed. It worked last time but maybe it somehow broke since >> I'm using a partition and not a file for persistance, or some other obscure >> reason. >> >> "Welcome to linux" for sure. I'm already strongly considering reinstalling >> it entirely because it's "not too much effort". > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. > Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. > Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. > Take corrective actions from your mobile device. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > LMMS-devel mailing list > LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
