Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:46:58 Lev Lafayette wrote:
>>> How much of a problem is this with Linux laptop installs generally ?
>>> I take it there were no driver issues in the above Ubuntu instal ?
>> Well, I'm the sort of person who upgrades personal hardware once in a blue
>> moon, so not really the right person to ask.
>>
>> Historically with the newest and greatest hardware sometimes manufacturers
>> are not always as helpful as they could be and problems can arise.
> Laptops are particularly difficult in this regard. For a desktop system you
> can use expansion cards to replace most built-in hardware that lacks driver
> support. Sometimes with laptops it's just too much pain to get hardware
> working properly so you just live with a system that isn't fully functional.
Thanks Russell much appreciated;
I suppose the bits of integrated hardware on a particular laptop will
be a very small demographic;
so the laptop company will have even less motivation to develop a Linux
driver and
presumably Linux driver developer's priorities will be
1/ getting their own hardware working
2/ writing drivers for the most common hardware ?
thanks Rohan McLeod
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