On 2014-10-06 09:47, Michael Butash wrote:
> I later realized the intel graphics would take over, even
> though probing the radeon, and really just annoyed me as it works
> great in a live cd, but couldn't get anything else to work properly

They're still working on getting everything properly supported with 
those dual-graphics-card laptops.  The bits and pieces under the hood 
apparently don't work quite the way they were described as working in 
the specifications, which sometimes causes weird problems.

> Is it just me, or are all linux installers basketcases these days? 

Gentoo's installer is still the same as it ever was!  :-P  Of course, 
everyone seems to want an installer to be everything, do everything, and 
support everything, and those things are not really possible.

(OTOH, I was impressed when a Gentoo install on a Macbook Pro detected 
a Thunderbolt->display port adapter, saw the monitor, activated it, and 
pulled up the KDE screen configuration utility which said "Display 
configuration changed.  Is this how you'd like your screen set up?"  I 
hadn't explicitly enabled anything like that anywhere, and wasn't 
expecting it to work because of other people reporting problems with 
Thunderbolt hotplugging under Linux.)

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