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posted by martyb on Monday April 28 2014, @03:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the are-we-there-yet? dept.

Techwolf writes:

According to Phoronix, getting support from motherboard manufacturers can be downright hostile for linux users. Some go as far as requiring Microsoft Windows to be installed before getting to speaking terms. With TYAN as about the only motherboard maker (that I am aware of) to fully support linux, my question is: "Do any of you use a TYAN motherboard in a typical desktop use case? If so, what were your experiences, pro and con?

Followup question is: Have any motherboard manufactures changed their tune recently regarding support for linux users?

With the recent end-of-life of free Windows/XP support, Valve's work on its Steam OS, and Android's large market share, how close are we to the point where a user can just install linux (or a BSD variant) and it just works? What hardware (old and new) has been especially problematic for you? What has been your greatest challenge and/or frustration?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 28 2014, @04:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 28 2014, @04:00PM (#37251)

    This!! I had problems with dual monitors (and from occasionally changing video cards) and also headless monitor setups all through Ubuntu 12.04. I recently upgraded a couple of systems to 14.04, and it's the first time it's gone without major incident for me. However, my opinions are still undecided on 14.04...

    Ubuntu 10.04 had issues with the printer drivers for one of my cheap Brother printers that were (only) fixed with 12.04.

    Previously, I'd run Fedora and Centos at home, but Fedora lost me about the time KDE4 was introduced. The last time I had to mess with the xorg.conf file was around 2006 or so when setting up dual monitor support. I seem to find obscure corner cases on just about every linux upgrade, and I finally just switched to OSX for the machines I have to rely on in the house. Work has always kept me on Redhat or Centos for numerous licensing and support issues (primarily flexlm).