I use Linux every day, but sometimes I get a bit jaded about this kind of thing.
I use Linux every day, but sometimes I get a bit jaded about this kind of thing.
Except for the part about missing your old favourites. I think.
Maybe I should make a video based on your comment...
Perhaps you should be pickier about your hardware, and select a laptop that ships with your OS.
I have no issues with WPA or suspend, ever. Ubuntu, as a large and major distro with many package sources, doesn't really get dependency hell either.
;-)
If not, I don't see any reason why the Linux guy would.
You seem to be suffering from a sense-of-humour failure. No, the Mac and Windows guys don't say it. But in my ironic alternative universe, the Mac guy would say something like:
"Hi, I'm the new Mac. I have just one button. Anywhere. Do not try and move the cursor. That's impossible. Instead ... only try to realize the truth."
And the Windows guy would say:
"Hi, I'm a PC. Vista makes me all shiny, which we think is much more important than running with your legacy hardware. Or your favourite software. Or with less than 10Gb of RAM. Good luck with any of that!"
But seriously, why take seriously something which was only ever intended to be a flippant remark?
On my thinkpad, which I installed myself, suspend only works if I disabled the nvidea drivers. It really isn't great yet.
I don't use the Vista side much, but my wife uses a very expensive Sony with vista biz premium on it. Her suspend also (sometimes) crashes. She can't print from our XP home network (I can). She paid for adobe acrobat professional and it never worked on her box.
Of course, fedora 10 is out now and the thought of upgrading gives me the cold sweats...
Wow. Which vendor? What happened when you reported it?