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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Sorry, I have no idea why Gregg Bell is having problems with invalid forum searches. 
I do know he has been having a lot of problems with a faulty Sony ereader (on both Windows and linux) if that is what you meant.
I will not grant you hardware problems as being a problem with linux -- even though the Sony does run linux.
And Dngrsone appears (from the current state of things) to be suffering from issues with Canonical's bluetooth packaging. I will note that the mouse manufacturer does not officially support linux, and the open-source community has to reverse-engineer these things... and even then we end up on roughly an even footing with Windows (with its manufacturer support).
So it could also be that no one has written the right rules for linux yet.
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searching online for his mouse, I got this: https://forums.logitech.com/t5/Mice-...s/td-p/1377464
Hey, guess what? That mouse doesn't support Bluetooth connections on anything less than Windows 8.1, because reasons. |
So wait...do you mean that there are driver issues in Linux???? I thought that Linux didn't have to deal with such things as drivers??? (I know that this isn't the case, but it IS what was implied by rcentros with his "straight forward simplicity of Linux" comment)
Also, it was actually this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=235138 that I was thinking of with Gregg, but there's also this one
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=253163
It may seem as if I'm intentionally picking on Gregg, but I'm really not. These are the same issues that most people have with using Linux. They want to do something that is easy in Windows or Mac, but is complex in Linux.
Linux users talk about how "most people only need a simple word processor and a web browser" and that's true. It all works fine, right up until they want to print out that document or web page or email. They go to Best Buy, and pick up a shiny new printer, and plug it in, and expect it to be recognized and installed automatically. Oops.
So they call the Geek Squad at Best Buy, and are told, "sorry, we don't support Linux". They call the manufacturer and are usually told the same thing.
They then call the person who talked them into using Linux in the first place (the evangelist), and the first few times, the evangelist is exceedingly helpful, and helps them immediately. After the first 5 or 6 times, though, the evangelist's patience starts wearing thin. They start putting the user off, and saying "I'm busy right now, I'll be over in a few days".
Eventually, the user either gives up completely, or teaches themselves how to use the command line and do it for themselves.
Guess how many teach themselves?
Shari