All of the first point can be avoided if you do not buy hardware with nvidia/ATI hardware. I was burned by this once in 2006 - ATI card too old to be supported by the proprietary driver, incompatible with the GPL drivers, so I couldn't update to the latest distro at the time - and have avoided such graphics cards since.
Point 2... I don't have sound on my PC at work (currently runs Wheezy) and can't figure out why. I'm not too bothered there as I don't need sound at work, luckily at home I have no sound problems on 3 different Ubuntu/Debian laptop/desktop machines. Peripheral support is nowhere near as bad as it was. Most USB devices are just "plug in and it works", though I admit to not using many scanners/webcams. The built-in webcam on this laptop works fine, and the way cups finds network printers seems like black magic. Laptop buttons - no problems here. I remember once in 2005 that this was a problem but nowadays these special buttons work all the time. Kernel regressions: Before I updated my work PC from Squeeze to Wheezy I tried out the 3.2 backports kernel. It wouldn't go a week without hanging. There's not much I could do about this, but luckily the current 3.16 wheezy kernel works fine and I usually have months of uptime. A lot of the time, the regressions could be user-space tools too. All software has bugs, sadly. I can't compare battery time vs other OSes as I don't use them. It could be true, but it depends a lot on what you are doing. On Windows I bet the battery lasts longer as you are not able to actually use the computer properly ;-) The X issue sounds like FUD. The links are to slashdot stories and wayland developer posts. The former are just opinions, the latter have their own agendas. X will go away, but it's going to be a painful time while the world transitions. And advocating an API like Win32 is just crazy. I'll give the article the on-the-fly resolution switch On 12/29/14, dimonik, dimonik <[email protected]> wrote: > I know, out of topic a bit, but still should be interesting: > > http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html > _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
