[ale] Acceptance of Linux on the desktop

[Sean Kilpatrick]

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On Saturday 23 August 2003 05:00 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> You obviously have very limited experience with Windows. 

Yup!

Win 3.1: looked sexy at the time.

Win 95: Crashed too often so I ran to OS/2

Win 98: Better than Win 95, but that's not saying much!

Win 2000: Clearly the best of the lot, but the EULAs
          are absurd.

Win XP: according to the reviews not as solid as Win 2k,
and I have no reason to ever upgrade another M$ OS.

That said, I have never had a problem hooking up a
computer peripheral to either Win 98 or Win 2k. USB
devices of all sorts, printers (admitedly major brands
only), scanners (ditto). Same goes for Modems: major
brands, external only.
Don't play games needing joysticks since my Atari 8-bit
died, so have never had do deal with joystick/controller
headaches.

My dream is to be able to purchase a USB 2 film scanner,
plug it in and grab the manufacturer's software disk and
install the drivers (including  any dependencies) and have
the thing work the way the manual says it will -- under
Linux.

Someday.

Sean

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