Six folks pledged lumps of cash to make it happen.
  • Ice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    86·
    6 days ago

    I mean, $2k is about okay for a month of labour in much of the world

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
      80·
      6 days ago

      First of all, it says it took a month of time from when he posted the initial bounty, not a month of labour… Maybe it took less. Anyway if someone has this sort of skills, they should make good money anywhere.

    • mal3oon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      50·
      6 days ago

      True, but the guy who fixed it is an EU researcher in CS in Canada. I highly doubt he did it for the money. He seems to be into puzzles. It sucks that Lenovo did not compensate him though.

  • Uairhahs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    5 days ago

    I’m a little perplexed by this I have a bash script that fixes this (I have this laptop) I never needed to compile a kernel or follow all these steps. Ran the script once and it just works, across all updates no issues yet…

    Update: Realised this is for the 7i 10th gen, I have 9i 9th gen (nevermind my ramblings)

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    6·
    5 days ago

    I have an ASUS laptop that maps its multiple speakers incorrectly under Linux, it’s been killing me for months and I’m now considering it. I was not prepared for the realization that the Linux path forward would be to just pay by the bug fix.

    • BD89@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      You could always try using hardware vendors with better support and customer service.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
        1·
        1 day ago

        No.

        I had that laptop before I tried to move it to Linux and I’m not buying a new one. It does work under Windows.

        This is not my laptop not supporting Linux, this is Linux not supporting my laptop. Because I already own the laptop. If people weren’t trying to cheerlead for their preferred OS for other reasons than… you know, whether it’s good or not, this wouldn’t even be a discussion. In fact, half the “Windows sucks” angles these days are down to “Windows 11 doesn’t support specific pieces of pre-existing hardware”. Which, you know, is the exact problem I’m having here.

        Now, would ASUS finally paying attention to the ecosystem make it easier for a whole bunch of people to move over? Sure. Of course. But that doesn’t contradict my previous statements.