Tim: >> Hey what?! Changing your keyboard might make something unbootable? George N. White III: > Or only booting to the other OS. > > Many laptop users have docking stations with external input devices. Users with RSI > may require input devices that use vendor-specific drivers. Here I have a Mac that chucks a hissy fit if I change keyboards, but I haven't checked if I can't boot until satisfying its needs. I use Final Cut Pro (FCP) as a video editor, and it's use of a QWERTY keyboard as the controller is a complete pig's breakfast of a way to do editing. Clearly the programmers have never used a real edit controller. You can get custom controllers, at enormous costs (typically costing more than the computer). But unless they provide some kind of driver file for FCP, they act as a rearranged QWERTY keyboard in a special box. FCP will still react to you touching your real keyboard (in an annoying way), and your editing controller can type daft things if you catch a button. And the OS wants to recognise *that* new keyboard by you typing some QWERTY keys that you don't know exist, or where, on the custom controller. They've never cottoned onto that being a pain, that you will have both connected simultaneously, and that you don't want one interfering with the other (let a custom controller solely control FCP, and ignore the typing keyboard). Nor how it's a pain that some common hotkey does different things depending which part of the window the mouse had clicked on. > At work we migrated from SGI IRIX64 to Apple because IRIX64 had Photoshop and color > management. At the time, the same image looked very different using Photoshop in different > Windows boxes, but Apple systems were consistent. The Apple systems booted straight into > macOS unless you used the keyboard to get a list of boot options where you could select > Linux. Colourimetry is a pain between different systems. They all have different ideas of how to handle gamut and monitor gamma. Even standard-def versus hi-def have different schemes. And there's various ideas about handling high-dynamic range video. A classic simple examples is viewing photos on computers: If you set the display up for useful/normal black to white range for typography (black text, white page), photos look comparatively dark (far worse than a traditional photo album, which doesn't have photos stuck on glowing white page). Conversely, if you set the screen up for normal photographic imagery, the white backrounds in webpages and your word processor are glaringly too bright. They've never quite understood the problem to not show page white as 100% full intensity. Film and TV learnt that decades ago. Unless it's a surreal scene, a plain white background is never burn-your-eyes-out white. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
