Comments on: My experiance with ubuntu http://mattmccullough.net/2007/05/09/my-experiance-with-ubuntu/ Random nonsense Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:47:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Matthew McCullough http://mattmccullough.net/2007/05/09/my-experiance-with-ubuntu/#comment-1131 Wed, 09 May 2007 18:05:39 +0000 http://matthewmccullough.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/my-experiance-with-ubuntu/#comment-1131 Yeah my wireless card was really funky. But right now I’m just stuck with this computer until I get a mac :-)

]]> By: Luke http://mattmccullough.net/2007/05/09/my-experiance-with-ubuntu/#comment-1130 Wed, 09 May 2007 15:20:18 +0000 http://matthewmccullough.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/my-experiance-with-ubuntu/#comment-1130 I have been running Kubuntu on my laptop for a few years now. The only issue I ever experienced with were the ACPI functions like hibernate and suspend. They are really flaky, but then again the manual says to expect that.

From my experience – some wifi cards are just a lost cause. This is why I usually do not recommend installing linux on a laptop unless you are comfortable messing around with strange hardware issues.

Note that you’d probably have similar issues with windows. Next time you install XP on some machine see how much of the hardware does not run out of the box. I work with Dell Latitude and Inspiron laptops and after you do a clean windows install you need to install drivers for the video card, sound board, wifi, lan adapter, modem, bluetooth and few other things.

Funny thing is, when I booted Ubuntu on that same machine, the only thing that didn’t work out of the box was wifi. So comparing out-of-the-box hardware support, most linux distros are light years ahead as compared to windows.

But of course your laptop usually ships with either a resource CD with all the windows based drivers you need making it easy for you to get everything working. Now if they also included Linux binaries on that disk, it would be equally easy to get it up and running. :)

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