We buy IBM/Lenovo here for about 10 years now, 700 Laptops in use by employes. I agree with you the T60 Series was not their best product to beginn with but the T400/W500 Series are much better now.
I run WoW via wine every day but it's definitly not the same like on Windows.
The opengl Version is missing Shadow rendering, fuzzy mouse control and unrecognized Keyboard actions under evdev are the major disadvantages.
I've used Gentoo since 2004 as my main Operating System, and i really liked it. But it has some serious flaws that disqualify it from beeing this "One size fits all" Distribution.
Compile time of packages
Nobody want's to wait a couple of hours for firefox to be installed (I know of binary packages but portage defines Source based installation as standard)
Broken ebuilds
I've spent countless hours struggling those x11-apps/whatever version 4.51 is missing a dependency
on Perl6::Junction or has to be built with dependency X which pulls 30 new packages i never wanted.
Usability
Or lack of it. Compiz on Gentoo? Ext4/Reiser4 with Gentoo? Tuxonice with Gentoo? - No Problem, just Google it and get a huge coffee pot.
Recent Builds
In 2004/05 Gentoo was full of Bleeding Edge Software Ebuilds, but now you have to go ~arch and add Overlays to get things running that Fedora/Suse adds since months.
Forget "5.1 surround system". It needs to be good enough to resolve the differences between an mp3 and a CD.
Actually most people are not able to differ CDDA and a MP3 File encoded with 128kbps through a reasonable modern encoder.
OTOH Multichannel Audio definitely enhances Home Cinema Systems.
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Absolutely! It's true that most people wouldn't hear a difference but without ABXing the results it's just a random meaningless statistic.
We buy IBM/Lenovo here for about 10 years now, 700 Laptops in use by employes. I agree with you the T60 Series was not their best product to beginn with but the T400/W500 Series are much better now.
IceWeasel is just a rebranding of Firefox from Debian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranding
I run WoW via wine every day but it's definitly not the same like on Windows. The opengl Version is missing Shadow rendering, fuzzy mouse control and unrecognized Keyboard actions under evdev are the major disadvantages.
I've used Gentoo since 2004 as my main Operating System, and i really liked it. But it has some serious flaws that disqualify it from beeing this "One size fits all" Distribution. Compile time of packages Nobody want's to wait a couple of hours for firefox to be installed (I know of binary packages but portage defines Source based installation as standard) Broken ebuilds I've spent countless hours struggling those x11-apps/whatever version 4.51 is missing a dependency on Perl6::Junction or has to be built with dependency X which pulls 30 new packages i never wanted. Usability Or lack of it. Compiz on Gentoo? Ext4/Reiser4 with Gentoo? Tuxonice with Gentoo? - No Problem, just Google it and get a huge coffee pot. Recent Builds In 2004/05 Gentoo was full of Bleeding Edge Software Ebuilds, but now you have to go ~arch and add Overlays to get things running that Fedora/Suse adds since months.
5.1 surround system
Forget "5.1 surround system". It needs to be good enough to resolve the differences between an mp3 and a CD.
Actually most people are not able to differ CDDA and a MP3 File encoded with 128kbps through a reasonable modern encoder. OTOH Multichannel Audio definitely enhances Home Cinema Systems.