[Ham-Linux] Take ACER Off your Linux-Friendly List

[Stef Daniels VK5HSX]

Greetings,

kd4e wrote:
> Actually, I have done those things, no thanks of any sort to Acer
> whose policy is obviously to discourage Linux usage.

This is to their own detriment !!

You have other manufacturers who have embraced Linux on various systems 
with success.  Their loss!!  Bye bye !!

> It would have been easy for Acer to make the identity of their
> wireless nic and Bluetooth easily accessible to Linux - even if
> they did not provide a driver - though they should have provided
> a Linux driver. (How hard can that be?)  Instead, unlike other
> computers and wireless nics theirs is almost "invisible" to Linux.

There are loads of other options out there, whose devices work fine.

> I have four laptops and one desktop here at the moment - only the
> Acer is this Linux-unfriendly.  If it is not deliberate it is is gross
> incompetence.  Volunteers write Linux drivers and corporations
> cannot?  Sigh.

It is showing that they are putting their head in the sand !!

sort of "...nah, nah, ....not listening !!"

> Finding and adapting drivers on your own time for hardware
> sold for profit by a corporation is ones choice - holding Acer
> accountable for being Linux-unfriendly may encourage them to
> take a new look.
> 
> I will probably return the Acer later in the week and instead buy a
> Samsung or Toshiba.  The choices of manufacturers need to have
> consequences, or else they will not learn.

Will see what happens.. perhaps their reasons are a certain request from 
a software company for this to happen.
-- 
Regards,

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