Talk about plug-and-play!

[integr8e]

Man, talk about plug-and-play! I recently obtained a replacement keyboard for my desktop, and decided to experiment a little by straight up hot-swapping the keyboards with Kubuntu running. It worked like a charm I remember the days working with Windows when (that's wwWw) I tried hot-swapping keyboards, mice, and everything else; I would receive the dreaded "device not detected" error, and have to reboot before I could use the new hardware. Not the case with Kubuntu! Not only has the keyboard (PS2) hot-swap worked, but I have a USB Joystick I can hot-swap as well - for the very occasional days I feel like playing around with gl-117

Kubuntu is completely, absolutely, unquestionably, and without a fathom of a doubt, the bomb-diggity

[mchuskie]

Re: Talk about plug-and-play!

Hot-swapping PS/2 keyboards/mice is not usually a good idea... most motherboards are wired such that a small surge at a PS/2 port (such as can be caused by plugging something in) can permanently fry it... or so I'm told.

But yes, only last week I was impressed by X's ability to hot-swap input devices - in my case, USB mice.

[txHarleyMan]

Re: Talk about plug-and-play!

bomb-diggity?

[toad]

Re: Talk about plug-and-play!

I have to agree that Kubuntu has made huge advances - I can now hotswap optical drives of my T41!!! Simply refused to do it on 7.4

[jbaerbock]

Re: Talk about plug-and-play!

My favorite is the ease of installing printers. My wife's wierd HP PhotoSmart 3-in-1 works better than in windows with less fuss, even scanning etc...