On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally I've soured on the Linux desktop (after many years of using > a Linux desktop... starting with Slackware 3.0) because support for > Intel Wireless is so cranky / unreliable! > > I was using FC8 some months back and although I followed all the > instructions for setting up wireless, 7 times out of 10 I could not > connect to the AP. I would have to try and try and try before the > wireless connection would "take." I was using the GNOME wireless > manager though, some other offerings might be more robust. > > And I could never get Intel dual-display working (so you can drive a > projector). Every time I would enable it from the GNOME display > manager, the display would freeze. Needless to say, inability to drive > a projector was a deal-breaker for me. > > It's really quite annoying because all my enterprise software needs > run best on Linux. But dual-boot is so cumbersome and running Linux > inside a VM is no joy at all (slow).
I agree on all points. My favorite peeve is display regression from an old release to the newest and using the open source driver to boot (usually nv). Using the binary driver would either make things work in a hackish way or just plain fail. Right now, Pulse Audio (pain as well). -- Jerome G. Pinoy Tech Podcast: http://www.pinoytechpodcast.com Blog: http://blog.gotangco.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
