On 12/09/11 18:56, Luke Martinez wrote:
Should I look at all release notes for drivers for every bit of hardware, expecting someone to do that is ridiculous. I did a bit of research on my card 555GTM + linux, i had linux drivers etc. Any sane person would expect it to work.
Indeed, any sane person would *expect* it to work, but then, sane people probably go out and buy machines with OSX or Windows pre-installed. This is why I don't try and persuade friends, family or even random strangers to use Linux on their desktops any more. There's always something that doesn't quite work. Ubuntu have gone a long way towards trying to integrate the work of third-party binary drivers into a system which normal users can cope with, but stuff is still miles away from being reliably usable on 99% of modern systems :(