On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski <main@wawrzek.name> wrote:

Based on my experience with Dell laptop, Crux in hands of person as
experienced as James might be better than Ubuntu. I hit some problem
with TouchPad and to address I had to patch and recompile drivers. The
patch is in newer kernel. (BTW. That might be useful link:
http://xps13-9333.appspot.com/)

One of the more frustrating things and sadly disappointing things

with Canonical's Ubuntu is that they've rather successfully

destroyed all usefulness of accessibility that Compiz Fusion's eZoom

provides.

Here are some examples based on Ubuntu 14.04 on my Dell Laptop (work):

Unity + Compiz Fusion (Canonical's version):

You cannot zoom in on many parts of the UI

including the status bar at the top, dock icons on

the left, etc.

XFCE4 + Compiz Fusion (Canonical's version):

Workspaces don't seem to work (at all).

Many settings in XFCE4 don't seem to function.

The mouse cursor when zoomed in seems to

go a white transparent invisible color.

These is just a few issues I've found so far :)

Gerat accessibility Ubuntu :)

> I think I'll be okay :) But all your points are of course completely right!
>
[...]
> One thing I think we all tend to do (to cheat a bit)
> is to stick in an Ubunto-based Live CD and do an lsmod -k
> on the system to get a list of what kernel modules it has
> loaded up for various bits and pieces of hardware :)

You could copy Ubuntu kernel into Crux as a fallback, couldn't you?

Yes :) Although I suspect just knowing the kernel modules

is good enough. i.e: lsmod -k

Out of curiosity, how do you plan to manage network. I used Crux only
on desktop and even in case of wireless network I've been using rc.d
net script.

I'll likely just use the CLI tool(s). I'm not really a fan of

GUI tools/apps :)

cheers

James