The Not Ready for Prime Time Players
From Russell Beatties blog [emphasis mine]
"There's still a few issues, but nothing so frustrating that I'm any less ecstatic with my setup. As a Linux user, I sort of expect them and compared to years past they're trivial. For example, the built-in sound speakers don't shut off when you plug in external speakers or headphones right now. Not great but I'm sure I'll find out what the issue is with some searching. Also, the external monitor port doesn't recognize the correct resolution out of the box - I've seen online that I'll have to manually tweak the xorg.conf file, but I haven't done it yet either. Other than that, I haven't had a single issue, and I know that these issues could "fix themselves" as well, as Ubuntu continues to develop and my weekly updates bring fixes and upgrades."
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If I've said it once, I've said it 100 times, if I have to edit an xconfig file by hand the OS isn't ready for prime time.
My most recent adventure was my work laptop which boots both XP and Ubuntu. The amount of effort it took me to get dual monitor support to work right in both OSes was nothing short of the birthing a breach cow and the actions that remain are still a nightmare.
On XP dual support needs to be reconfigured almost every reboot and depending on how your screens are setup have fun with OK on one monitor and Cancel on the other, yep it is that good.
On Ubuntu you'd better not want to use the power of your 512MB nVidia card with Ubuntu because you have to dig to get it to work right and the warnings are scary, but don't worry once you've gotten it setup and working an update will be pushed downstream that will require you to rewrite your xconfig yet again.
With both OSes you'd better get really good with the config screens and files b/c if your home setup doesn't match your work setup oh well you get to do it every time you switch it up! YAY!
If you don't want to spend your time looking for hacks to make your hardware work properly just buy a Mac and enjoy your extra time.
"There's still a few issues, but nothing so frustrating that I'm any less ecstatic with my setup. As a Linux user, I sort of expect them and compared to years past they're trivial. For example, the built-in sound speakers don't shut off when you plug in external speakers or headphones right now. Not great but I'm sure I'll find out what the issue is with some searching. Also, the external monitor port doesn't recognize the correct resolution out of the box - I've seen online that I'll have to manually tweak the xorg.conf file, but I haven't done it yet either. Other than that, I haven't had a single issue, and I know that these issues could "fix themselves" as well, as Ubuntu continues to develop and my weekly updates bring fixes and upgrades."
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If I've said it once, I've said it 100 times, if I have to edit an xconfig file by hand the OS isn't ready for prime time.
My most recent adventure was my work laptop which boots both XP and Ubuntu. The amount of effort it took me to get dual monitor support to work right in both OSes was nothing short of the birthing a breach cow and the actions that remain are still a nightmare.
On XP dual support needs to be reconfigured almost every reboot and depending on how your screens are setup have fun with OK on one monitor and Cancel on the other, yep it is that good.
On Ubuntu you'd better not want to use the power of your 512MB nVidia card with Ubuntu because you have to dig to get it to work right and the warnings are scary, but don't worry once you've gotten it setup and working an update will be pushed downstream that will require you to rewrite your xconfig yet again.
With both OSes you'd better get really good with the config screens and files b/c if your home setup doesn't match your work setup oh well you get to do it every time you switch it up! YAY!
If you don't want to spend your time looking for hacks to make your hardware work properly just buy a Mac and enjoy your extra time.
Labels: apple
posted by dan at Wednesday, July 16, 2008
by C.S. Walton
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1 Comments:
It's only been a year since I abandoned Vista and Windows (at home) in favor of a Mac, yet was already [thankfully] starting to forget such nightmares as the webcam that had to be deleted and reinstalled as a device prior to each use and the secondary monitor that was repositioned (virtually) back to the left after every reboot...
Now if I could only get a Mac at work...
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