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[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 06.06.2014 16:36, schrieb Dicebot:
> On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 13:58:59 UTC, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 13:34 +0000, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> […]
>>> At home, I got fed up tinkering GNU/Linux since my Slackware days
>>> (1995), as laptop support still tends to fall in some parts, namely
>>> graphics support, wireless chipsets and battery usage.
>>
>> Is this still true? As far as I am aware nVIDIA and Intel graphics
>> support is fine on Linux, ditto Intel wifi support. My AMD card in my
>> dual graphics laptop is 4 years old and AMD have given up supporting it,
>> so that's a fail compared to nVIDIA who are still supporting my 7 year
>> old card.

Not if you care about the latest versions of OpenGL, OpenCL and WebGL 
support.

Having Windows also allows playing around with DirectX from time to time.


>>
>> As for battery life, my X201 still gives about 6 hours use per charge,
>> would Windows do any better?
>
> Battery usage is still a common problem. Everything has been working
> perfectly for years now.

Not really, case in point my Netbook Asus EEE PC 1215B, which was sold 
in Germany via Amazon with GNU/Linux support pre-installed.

After one year usage, the wireless card stopped working with IPv4 
routers, because Ubuntu devs decided to replace the proprietary driver 
in the LTS distribution, although the open source version was still work 
in progress.

So I got stuck using a cable until the open source driver reached 
feature parity with the removed closed source driver. Undoing what the 
Ubuntu update did was a mess that would require re-flashing the driver 
firmware, as such I had better things to do than hack around.

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Paulo