Things Working Out

As I said a few days ago, people have a tendency to complain when Linux doesn’t like their hardware. The converse of that, of course, is that people rarely speak up when things just work. Here’s an exception to the rule:

When I installed Jaunty on my spiffy new laptop, the following things happened:

• I got a pop-up window offering to install a driver for my wireless card (Broadcom driver). After a click, password and reboot, wireless worked.
• My entire screen worked at full resolution.
• I was greeted by that loud jungle drums sound when GNOME started up (sound works), reflexively, I hit the mute button on my keyboard, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it worked. So do the volume up/down buttons.
• In fact, I have no complaints whatsoever about hardware performance under Linux.

Yes, I know that just because I had success doesn’t mean everyone has success, but can we at least acknowledge  that many computers do work? Thanks.