[kwlug-disc] How to choose a new motherboard

[William Park]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 12:35:16AM -0400, Paul Nijjar wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:46:52PM -0400, unsolicited wrote:
> > 
> > To both situations, isn't the question these days - has anyone
> > bought something recently to find out it DOESN'T work? i.e. Doesn't
> > everything 'just work' these days?
> > 
> 
> In my experience, Debian is "respecting my freedom" by stripping
> out binary blobs, thus making the distro more and more difficult to
> install. I am running into more problems with simple network cards
> than I used to, which is irritating. So yes: there are some things that
> don't "just work", as Darcy hinted.
> 
> The moral of this story is probably "Don't use Debian" but la la la
> I'm not listening.

After installing Debian DVD, I was surprised that my laptop's Intel
wireless didn't work.  I had to download relevant intel firmware package
from pkgs.org.  Since then, I never installed Debian again.