Remembered years ago when I was still using Ubuntu desktop (7.x ~ 9.x) and the following things just killed me completely:
resume/suspend
video card
”enterprise” encryption over wireless (read: Windows)
less-known USB printers (no Linux driver at all!)
various other little things like indicator LED's etc
Spent countless hours configuring these things and finally got to a state where the computer was usable. And the laptop was a Thinkpad which was one of the better supported hardware.
Then a upgrade came half a year later and I had to repeat the whole process to reconfigure all over again, because some tricks used to work became useless, and parts of the things used to work fine now broke again.
Having done this for several times (I think the last major release I used regularly was Ubuntu 9.10) I thought: that's enough! I'm not going to spend my life fighting the endless battles. And at the time a roommate spilled a glass of juice of the old laptop, killing it instantly.
I bought the 1st gen Unibody MacBook then. Couldn't be any happier.
I still run several Ubuntu and Debian instances in Virtualbox, though, but they are all server editions. I just SSH into them from OS X.
Recently I'm wondering maybe the only way for Linux desktops to go mainstream is probably something like Chrome OS there you eliminate everything else except the laptop… (wireless support is still a potential area of pain, though).
resume/suspend
video card
”enterprise” encryption over wireless (read: Windows)
less-known USB printers (no Linux driver at all!)
various other little things like indicator LED's etc
Spent countless hours configuring these things and finally got to a state where the computer was usable. And the laptop was a Thinkpad which was one of the better supported hardware.
Then a upgrade came half a year later and I had to repeat the whole process to reconfigure all over again, because some tricks used to work became useless, and parts of the things used to work fine now broke again.
Having done this for several times (I think the last major release I used regularly was Ubuntu 9.10) I thought: that's enough! I'm not going to spend my life fighting the endless battles. And at the time a roommate spilled a glass of juice of the old laptop, killing it instantly.
I bought the 1st gen Unibody MacBook then. Couldn't be any happier.
I still run several Ubuntu and Debian instances in Virtualbox, though, but they are all server editions. I just SSH into them from OS X.
Recently I'm wondering maybe the only way for Linux desktops to go mainstream is probably something like Chrome OS there you eliminate everything else except the laptop… (wireless support is still a potential area of pain, though).