A permanent installation on an external 128 GB drive.To a limited extent, further software can be added to a live session. This kind of testing is ephemeral, and only meant to assess the hardware support, the overall functioning of the distro, and various other software assessments. Live media on USB flash drives using Ventoy, without persistence.For my wife’s HP, only recent kernels and only select distros support on the Live/installation media the Realtek RTL8821CE, which means no Wi-Fi and no Bluetooth, and without Wi-Fi there’s no way I could get such a long patch cord to use the wired Ethernet, so this is totally a no-go.įurthermore, for both systems, there were two means of testing:.Should I have only tested in a virtual machine, I’d never had noticed this issue! A severe consequence is that on this Acer I cannot use Cinnamon, because its retarded developers (yes, Clem, you and your clique!) decided to go the GNOME way of removing features and choices, so that in Cinnamon I cannot choose an “unplugged” device for output! When the traditional fixes stopped working (and they stopped forever, as one patch in the kernel fixed Acer models P648/P658 with codec ALC282 that only have one physical jack for headset in a way that permanently affects my P645 that has two separate physical jacks for headphones and mike), I needed to rely on manually switching the audio output from “Speakers” to “Headphones (unplugged)” (even when plugged in, the system can’t acknowledge that, yet the audio goes through if directed to them!). For my Acer, the on and off, and in recent kernels the lack of correct support for the audio jack connected to Realtek’s ALC282 chip.My wife’s HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop TG01-1209ng.Īs I noticed long time ago, the issues Linux has with these systems are:.My Acer TravelMate P645-S from 2016 (with the HDD replaced with a 1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD, so it has two SSDs).Now, the systems I tested what I tested in the past 14 months are: ![]() ![]() Tests and reviews in a virtual machine are totally useless. ![]() It’s far from uncommon to find that a distro that works great on a given hardware doesn’t properly support some specific hardware (at least, not without major fiddling), or even that it freezes on certain systems. What are they testing? That the installer and the package management system work? If someone tests a Linux distro for evaluating how appropriate it would be for becoming their daily driver for a laptop or a desktop PC, then they must test on the bare metal, because it’s the only way to assess the hardware support (a virtual machine offers a standard, irrelevant hardware configuration) and also the responsiveness (which also depends on the actual drivers needed for the actual hardware). Introduction: testing and evaluating, but how?Īs I always said, whoever is testing a Linux distro with a desktop environment in a virtual machine is a moron. You should be at least as shocked as I was, but I fear you won’t be, for most of you are too superficial to realize the importance of some of the facts. Long time no see, so I’m going to synthesize here the experiences and the epiphanies I had with Linux in the last couple of months.
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