Russell Coker wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:46:58 Lev Lafayette wrote:
How much of a problem is this with Linux laptop installs generally ? I take it there were no driver issues in the above Ubuntu instal ? Well, I'm the sort of person who upgrades personal hardware once in a blue moon, so not really the right person to ask.
Historically with the newest and greatest hardware sometimes manufacturers are not always as helpful as they could be and problems can arise. Laptops are particularly difficult in this regard. For a desktop system you can use expansion cards to replace most built-in hardware that lacks driver support. Sometimes with laptops it's just too much pain to get hardware working properly so you just live with a system that isn't fully functional. Thanks Russell much appreciated; I suppose the bits of integrated hardware on a particular laptop will be a very small demographic; so the laptop company will have even less motivation to develop a Linux driver and presumably Linux driver developer's priorities will be 1/ getting their own hardware working 2/ writing drivers for the most common hardware ?
thanks Rohan McLeod