[kwlug-disc] How to choose a new motherboard

[Bob Jonkman]

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When I want pure freedom, I use Trisquel. When I want "just works" I
use Mint. Both are based on Debian, and I've successfully shared my
/home partition between the two.

I was using gNewSense for a bit, but that distro respected my freedom
so much the laptop screen didn't even work.

- --Bob.



On 14-07-01 12:38 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> 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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