It really depends on what laptop you have. The thinkpads for example seem to work perfectly out of the box. I have a lenovo legion with an nvidia card, and everything works out of the box except swapping monitors. If you are constantly connecting/disconnecting monitors it glitches out and you have to reboot.
Meanwhile my wife has a thinkpad and everything works out of the box, including switching monitors.
We use to have an old macbook that we ran Linux on and that thing was terrible. WiFi required some random github install, trackpad was awful as well.
Dell Insprion, I guess the hardware is stable so maybe it can work.
But the keyboard sucks so badly, it was added as an afterthought. I want a good laptop with a great keyboard.
Meanwhile Micro$oft is pushing everyone towards AI and voice input because some people can’t use keyboards. Windows 12 will eliminate keyboard and mouse as input devices entirely for voice and touch.
As long as it runs ancient Photoshop CS4 and MS Word 2007. I tried OpenOffice a few months ago on a spare laptop, spent a half hour entering data on a spreadsheet and then it crashed. no problem it has document recovery. It said could not write to C:\users\whatever and that’s the last time I’ll ever use that piece of junk.
Yeah, that’s what I meant.
It crashed and said it couldn’t write to c:\users and I lost work. Never again. Office 2007 works just fine and always will.
What is it with nerds and choosing the worst, most unpronouncable names for their software?
The GIMP, doh ho ho boy that was funny back when Pulp Fiction came out (it wasn’t).
Eh, some open source software having an oopsie like that because they never tested it on Windows is exactly the kind of failure they always have. Because obviously they would never stoop to using Micro$oft’s Borg. Pay for software? Never!
I tried and tried to like this stuff but was betrayed too many times and then got marked NOTABUG or WONTFIX and told to F off and RTFM.
This to a man who used to read manuals as recreational reading. Even re-read them. For obsolete software!
It really depends on what laptop you have. The thinkpads for example seem to work perfectly out of the box. I have a lenovo legion with an nvidia card, and everything works out of the box except swapping monitors. If you are constantly connecting/disconnecting monitors it glitches out and you have to reboot.
Meanwhile my wife has a thinkpad and everything works out of the box, including switching monitors.
We use to have an old macbook that we ran Linux on and that thing was terrible. WiFi required some random github install, trackpad was awful as well.
Dell Insprion, I guess the hardware is stable so maybe it can work. But the keyboard sucks so badly, it was added as an afterthought. I want a good laptop with a great keyboard. Meanwhile Micro$oft is pushing everyone towards AI and voice input because some people can’t use keyboards. Windows 12 will eliminate keyboard and mouse as input devices entirely for voice and touch. As long as it runs ancient Photoshop CS4 and MS Word 2007. I tried OpenOffice a few months ago on a spare laptop, spent a half hour entering data on a spreadsheet and then it crashed. no problem it has document recovery. It said could not write to C:\users\whatever and that’s the last time I’ll ever use that piece of junk.
You should use its successor, LibreOffice.
Yeah, that’s what I meant.
It crashed and said it couldn’t write to c:\users and I lost work. Never again. Office 2007 works just fine and always will. What is it with nerds and choosing the worst, most unpronouncable names for their software? The GIMP, doh ho ho boy that was funny back when Pulp Fiction came out (it wasn’t).
That is Windows’ fault
Eh, some open source software having an oopsie like that because they never tested it on Windows is exactly the kind of failure they always have. Because obviously they would never stoop to using Micro$oft’s Borg. Pay for software? Never! I tried and tried to like this stuff but was betrayed too many times and then got marked NOTABUG or WONTFIX and told to F off and RTFM. This to a man who used to read manuals as recreational reading. Even re-read them. For obsolete software!