Welcome to My World

Occasionally I’m asked by a friend of mine “why bother with Linux if it gives you trouble like this on your notebook?” Usually, when she asks that question, I’m in the midst of figuring out how to make some random piece of hardware in this notebook cooperate under Linux, or determine why suspend-to-RAM doesn’t work, and so on, and I rarely have time (or, sadly, patience) to actually answer the question reasonably. I also always ultimately meet with success in my efforts getting that “whatever” fixed or working once I’m done, but by then the conversation has moved on to other topics.