Problems Linux Enthusiasts Refuse to Address

[Liam Proven]

On 5 April 2011 08:50, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
> Michael Haney wrote:
>>
>> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3929866/
>>
>> I totally agree with everything in this article.
>
> Really? At the risk of coming across as some sort of an uber geek I thought
> most of those problems were fairly well solved by now? It's been a long time
> since I've had a bit of hardware that didn't work in Linux out of the box,
> and I've never got into the habit of checking compatibility first.

You're lucky. I'll give you the last example to try my patience: the
MSI Wind Top all-in-one touchscreen PC. The touchscreen works, but the
directions are reverse: move your finger left, the pointer goes right.
Move it down, it goes up. Completely useless.

The extant drivers use HAL and only work up to about Ubuntu 9.04 or something.

I spent 2 or 3 days on this and in the end sent the machine back as
unfit for purpose.

In recent months, I have had serious issues with notebook Wifi
adaptors, Ethernet adaptors and webcams, as well.

It is /not/ a resolved issue. Not even close.

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