| Steve Litt via plug on 31 Aug 2022 07:11:47 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] hardware, XFCE |
On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 11:11 -0400, jeffv via plug wrote: > Linux Desktops and Hardware Enablement - It’s Time for a Change > > https://hackernoon.com/linux-desktops-and-hardware-enablement-its-time-for-a-change > > If you told me twenty years ago that Nvidia GPUs would still be a pain > in the you-know-what to get working inside a Linux install to this very > day, I wouldn't believe you. The preceding article tells the stone truth. When it comes to this "we will package no proprietary drivers" thing, the perfect is the enemy of the good, because such attitudes drive people right back to Windows. And given that the various components often aren't published in the specs, such policies hold the computer owner accountable for things beyond his control. I wrote about this in two articles of the December 2006 Linux Productivity Magazine: http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200612/200612.htm#_You_Bet_Im_Mad http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200612/200612.htm#_lifeAfterWindows SteveT ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug