Posted on 04/04/2018 3:53:50 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I did just this year, and was told it can be hard to get Broadcom cards to work. not working Linux. As is testified to.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers/60395
How to solve Broadcom SD card reader issue with Linux - cialu.net
And besides more problems, recent look what i had to go thru to get a Lexmark printer working in 2012 .
But even more laborious was trying to remapp the CapsLock key to ctrl+c (and then Esc. to ctrl+v, and NumLock to Esc), as explained in this FR post , which for me is actually essential due to my arthritic fingers and frequent copy and paste functions. AutoCopy is not the answer, nor is AutoKey.
And among other lacking fully functional equivalents (though software like Firefox and Apache/LibreOffice are), i know of no word processor in Linux that enables AutoPaste, which also saves me a lot of time each month as part of what I do, but which the old Text Shield provides, thank God.
But you should use what works for you. Computers should be your tools, not your master.
Are you using Fedora or OpenSUSE?
If OpenSUSE, how is the learning curve from Mint KDE to TW KDE?
Sorry :(
I may end up just installing M xfce and put KDE over it..
Which is the downside of a good thing. Variety of distros can enable faster and greater improvement, yet what works on one distro may not work on another. I think i was finally able to get that remapp to work on Fedora, but none else.
I am just reacting against the hype that the Linux Desktop is superior to Windows, just as i do to those who promote Chrome over Firefox, when in both cases the user has hardly touched the surface of what the latter can do, though in the case of Linux, that means without having to learn coding, something specific to the distro.
And i think Linux has far more potential than it has realized.
I think both Dolphin and Nautilus have a preview.
The problem is - the web browsers don’t call the stock system file browser for uploading.
The only combo that worked the way I wanted was KDE+CHROME - which calls “KDialog” when picking files for upload.
Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon - no go! I think I made a post on the Mint forum pointing out this deficiency.
A nuanced thing - but - these are the kind of obstacles you encounter in Linux once you start trying to actually do something.
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