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Phoronix Announces '2017 Linux Laptop Survey' (google.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the survey-says dept.

Phoronix is hosting a 2017 Linux Laptop Survey. From their site: While Linux laptop compatibility is much better than where it was years ago, it's still not too uncommon to run into display/hybrid issues, shorter battery life under Linux than Windows or macOS, touchpad problems, and other occasional compatibility/performance shortcomings. So we've established this Linux Laptop Survey in conjunction with Linux stakeholders to hopefully gather more feedback that will be useful to many different parties...
The survey will be online until July 6th, after which the results will be publicly available, and will determine the most popular brands, distros, screen sizes, and GPUs, as well as common pain points and popular price points. And one particularly interestng question asks respondents what they'd like to see in a "dream Linux laptop."

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  1. what they'd like to see in a "dream Linux laptop." by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The complete absence of anything by Lennart Poettering.

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  2. no laptop by tomxor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We all like to bitch about crappy hardware and software, but If you kept adding all the things that anyone ever hated about linux or hardware to your "no" list you will end up with a transistor... even some people will hate a particular type of transistor. so you will end up with nothing.

    Point being, if you knew all the details of what went into making your computer you would find a lot of it pretty fucking awful... Once you take the red pill you have to be more accepting of the prevalence of poor design and buggy hardware and software or get out of computing. Just focus on the good stuff, the bad stuff is inevitable for so many reasons. On a semi-related note, another way of looking at things is like Minix3: failure is inevitable, so make it fail right.

  3. Why do a survey of Linux desktop users? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Would it really be that hard to just interview both of them?

  4. With the old keyboards! by Kludge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Would someone please tell these laptop companies that the Apple-type keyboards are SHIT!?!! Please bring back the old Thinkpad keyboards.

  5. Re:what they'd like to see in a "dream Linux lapto by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Systemd has not eaten my dog or anything quite so dramatic. And it hasn't caused me any problems, personally.

    But I've always felt that systemd was a solution in search of a problem, I don't care for Poettering's attitude (especially as regards the Unix philosophy), and I remain suspicious about how systemd got injected into all the major distros practically overnight.

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