It's no different for Apple. Good luck installing Mac OSX on a Thinkpad or worse an Acer. But no one has a problem with this.
Apple/OSX, lol. That summarizes my comment about Apple software and hardware. And Acer is still a lot better than Compaq used to be.
Get rid of your Broadcom card and get an Intel card instead. You can get them for $15 on Ebay. Broadcom sucks.
Its Intel, sadly the driver again requires specific configurations to be fully functional. And there's no hope of ever getting WiDi to function properly either.
If you have Intel sound you shouldn't have that problem.
Again, not going to shop for specific hardware just to make an OS work. If you can't even support Rockwell/Conexant and Realtek properly I wouldn't you have good hardware support.
First of all, Linux is already mainstream on servers, super computers, embedded systems, smartphones, etc.
On servers its not uncommon, but you'd be amazed what's out there. Contrary to common belief web servers aren't the only thing being run. On super computers its usually a heavily customized version, you could just as well use BSD as starting point to be honest. On smartphones it has been so heavily modified that you wouldn't recognize it if you start taking a closer look at it. And in terms of embedded systems I commonly run into non-Linux things. In fact when we step away from ARM I very often see very specific RTOS implementations that have nothing in common with Linux. NetBSD is very common, custom things even more so. You'd be amazed how far you can get with a few lines of assembly and a C or Ada compiler in a few hours.
Second, what have Stallman to do with anything? If there would be no Stallman and GNU, there wouldn't be Linux. But today Stallman don't play a major role in Linux development anymore.
He's a prime example of the mentality that keeps Linux from achieving mainstream desktop and laptop use.
Third, a Linux system is pretty easy to use. Just install it and it works. And lastly, no user care one bit about the discussion over systemd. Users are just using what is the default and if it works, it's fine. Sysvinit and systemd are just fine for users, it's only the hardcore old school users that are whining about systemd.
Now if the default worked I'd love to do that, sadly it rarely does. (Disclaimer: I don't shop for linux compatible hardware, I just shop for what gives the best performance for the least cash like most people do.)
cold day in hell. To be honest, while I would like linux to be accepted. I'm not getting rid of Stallman, because if we start getting rid of people like him, the GNU/Linux community will just become more like the people we joined this community to get away from.
I suggest if there is ever an event nearby where he speaks that you talk to him for half a minute, lets see how much of your view of said person is left standing. He's an annoying jerk who lives in the eighties who didn't yet get the memo that not everyone is spying on him or is strictly interested in what he thinks. But lets not get into detail about this one.
He inspires confedence as a voice I can trust to be consistant and ethical, even when no one else is, and doesn't bow to pressure, or sell out core principles.
You don't need a person like that to stand up for your principles, if you must find somebody to stand up for them I'd say go for Linus. He might be a jerk, but he's not an obnoxious paranoid unreasonable person.
Also, Free software survives on community effort. Bringing in a bunch of hipsters, will simply bring in hoardes of people who do not contribute, but make demands, sometimes unreasonable, and might try and cause divisions, making work harder. Again, you'll talk about kicking contributers out, to make room for non-contributors.
I'm fairly confident that your community runs more on folks like me (engineers who use this sort of software during their working hours and patch stuff up the moment they run into a major issue) than you realise. Though I've realised long ago Linux is pointless to invest time in, hence my preference for FreeBSD. The key difference is that in the FreeBSD community people don't complain constantly. If they run into an issue they fix it instead of whining about it on Slashdot for half a year.
OK, now you're trolling, linux has had better driver availability than basicly anyone else for the last 5 years. Your simply repeating problems people had pre-kernel 3, which are virtually unheard of.
I started running Linux because all my drivers just worked, as opposed to running XP at the time, where finding the right drivers was a fucking pain. Also, installing extra drivers on Ubuntu is easy, installing them on windows is hard, and installing them on Macs doesn't happen, at all.
Oh yeah, and all the codecs "just worked" too, I just clicked a box saying I didn't give fuck all about licensing. Now try doing that in windows, or even mac.
I have yet to see evidence of this statement. Every computer I install linux on, I must point out this is on recent hardware and often laptops, I usually end up having to fiddle with the driver settings because some person somewhere decided that having the default settings automatically loaded into configuration files was a bad idea. Keep in mind the Windows driver figures out these things by itself, mostly because it doesn't have to take into account 50000 different possible locations for said configuration file. Also: Register! But that's a whole other debate. On the other hand, Windows 7 pretty much automatically installed everything by itself the moment it had network connectivity. And I haven't run into a codec issue in years, because quite frankly nobody still uses Windows Mediaplayer.
Or mabey that Ubuntu was the first desktop that had an App store on the desktop, even before apple. Oh, and it worked.
Or try installing windows on box vs mint/ubuntu/trisquel. Tell me what is easier.
And even that is false.
Are your initials ESR?
Pretty sure they aren't.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.