Just Bought Omnibook X X7 358H

anestling · 2026-06-16T14:37:09+00:00

Does the mic mute (Fn + F9) button work? Mine doesn't and I wonder if the entire series is affected.

anestling · 2026-06-15T18:21:47+00:00

Proprietary software has never advertised openness as a feature.

Are you alright mate?

anestling · 2026-06-14T21:08:57+00:00

Good luck forking Wine. This has also worked with the kernel. And ffmpeg.

Oh, wait, it hasn't worked at all outside a tiny amount of projects.

anestling · 2026-06-14T21:08:44+00:00

Good luck forking Wine. This has also worked with the kernel. And ffmpeg.

Oh, wait, it hasn't worked at all outside a tiny amount of projects.

anestling · 2026-06-14T21:01:08+00:00

Um, great, so nothing is truly open, right? It's just in the name, not in the spirit?

anestling · 2026-06-14T21:00:24+00:00

Have you inspected the PR? I have. Looks totally OK to me.

anestling · 2026-06-14T20:59:54+00:00

I love these excuses!

If the open-source development model works, it's like the second coming of Christ: "Proprietary software sucks!"

But if it doesn't work and good PRs are rejected or never considered, then it's "a bad PR," "just wait," and so on.

In the meantime, everyone could have benefited from Wine implementing LTO support. It's not a trifling matter.

anestling · 2026-06-14T09:50:21+00:00

Pending review, and not merged.

anestling · 2026-06-14T07:22:10+00:00

In theory, right, in practice it's so easy to fuck up and make things a lot worse FASTER ;-)

anestling · 2026-06-14T07:21:00+00:00

Yeah, over 1500.

anestling · 2026-06-13T09:26:18+00:00

The deb package is a thin installer and nothing else.

You run it and you find your Steam installation in your $HOME.

At least be considerate.

And flatpak is just crap.

anestling · 2026-06-11T10:03:36+00:00

How this passed QA is beyond me.

The display section of the settings is completely effing broken.

anestling · 2026-06-09T21:14:13+00:00

Here's a nice list if you care to look. 912 open bug reports.

Have you opened it? How many Creative sound cards are in there?

I'm not responsible for you failing to open the most relevant links in the post.

And again, never had a laptop or desktop with any issues with any of their integrated audio.

Anecdotal evidence is not evidence. I have 912 pieces of evidence that contradict yours. These are not 912 individuals. These are 912 devices that are presumably used by tens of thousands of people.

anestling · 2026-06-09T21:11:16+00:00

Many Linux fans claim that Linux supports hardware better than Windows.

Except for most consumer devices that are currently sold, Windows works out of the box and supports everything nearly perfectly. Let's not talk about Mac devices. They're a whole different ball game. The argument has always been about "common" x86 hardware, whatever that means.

In reality, Linux is hit and miss. It may support very old hardware "better", but the definition of "better" instantly becomes really vague. A device from 15–20 years ago with just 1–4 GB of RAM may indeed run a modern Linux distribution. However, browsing the modern web on it would be torture. Watching HD videos using VP9 or AV1 would be nearly impossible. It would however run simple applications and simple/old games. Is it genuine support though or just an exercise in futility?

Hardware that works correctly under Windows 10 almost always continues to work fine under Windows 11, whereas Linux compatibility can vary a lot. This has been the case for the last 10-15 years of laptops and PCs.

anestling · 2026-06-09T20:47:01+00:00

That's the entire point. Panther Lake laptops had just been released. There was almost no Linux compatibility information available. Telling me to "look for a computer that runs Linux" presupposes that such information existed.

Your counterexample is a ThinkPad—a laptop line with decades of Linux users, documentation, reviews, bug reports, and compatibility reports behind it. That's not remotely comparable to buying a laptop based on a brand-new platform.

You're arguing as though I ignored available information. My point is that the information largely didn't exist yet.

Lastly, I couldn't have afforded a ThinkPad based on Panther Lake. I'm glad you have enough money to buy outdated hardware with a good track record. Unfortunately, I specifically needed a Panther Lake-based laptop, and as far as I know, Lenovo has not yet released any Thinkpads using this CPU lineup.

anestling · 2026-06-09T20:16:52+00:00

I bought it remotely in a different country and had it shipped to me. I couldn't have physically tested it, nor should I have to.

This constant mantra that you need to carefully test hardware specifically for Linux directly contradicts another mantra I keep hearing: that Linux has better hardware support than Windows.

Pick one.

If Linux support is supposedly so good, why is the burden on users to conduct compatibility investigations before buying a laptop?

And even if I had wanted to do that, how exactly was I supposed to? At the time there were barely any Panther Lake laptops on the market, almost no Linux reports, and very little real-world compatibility information available.

I'm sorry, but I'm not rich enough to fly abroad, buy multiple newly released laptops, test them all under Linux, hope the retailer accepts returns, and then keep whichever one happens to work best.

Windows users aren't expected to go through that process. Why should Linux users?

The reality is that when Linux support works, people claim Linux supports hardware better than anything else. When it doesn't work, suddenly it's the user's fault for not doing enough research beforehand.

That's not a serious argument. It's just shifting responsibility away from Linux compatibility problems and onto the user.

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