[ale] Acceptance of Linux on the desktop

[Christopher Ness]

On Saturday 23 August 2003 03:11 pm, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Saturday 23 August 2003 14:40, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > I would possit that the single greatest bar to a
> > more general acceptance of Linux on the desktop is
> > the lack of manufacturer-supplied drivers.
>
> I disagree. Here's why.
> I would argue that hardware  support was worse then for NT than it is for 
Linux now. 

Put XP right in there too. (even if it is NT at heart, it is the one all the 
Wintrolls brag on). When I gave up on ME and put XP on, I had to replace 
almost all of my peripherals and  _buy_  upgrades on any program I cared 
about. All totalled, over a thousand samolians just so I didn't have to keep 
fighting with what was unquestionably the worst OS that M$ ever came up with. 
And when I complained on a newsgroup, the Wintrolls told me I was just being 
cheep and whining.

-- 
Chris Ness
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