[kwlug-disc] How to choose a new motherboard

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:46:52PM -0400, unsolicited wrote:
> >
> > To both situations, isn't the question these days - has anyone
> > bought something recently to find out it DOESN'T work? i.e. Doesn't
> > everything 'just work' these days?
> >
>
> In my experience, Debian is "respecting my freedom" by stripping
> out binary blobs, thus making the distro more and more difficult to
> install. I am running into more problems with simple network cards
> than I used to, which is irritating. So yes: there are some things that
> don't "just work", as Darcy hinted.
>
> The moral of this story is probably "Don't use Debian" but la la la
> I'm not listening.


If you use Ubuntu, then you get all the goodness of Debian, with better
hardware support. If one is a puritan, then Ubuntu can be problematic. For
the rest of us, everything just works.
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wrong." -- H.L. Mencken
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