Re: I've thought better of Linux

Greg Menke wrote: 
Frankly the
quickest is sometimes to pull the hard disk out of the machine, stick it
in a Linux box, download the drivers and save them to the hard disk,
reinstall boot and go.

That sounds quite desperate. Are you sure the HW you're using isn't just pure junk?

Theres not an OS around that Just Works freshly installed, there is
always a greater or lesser degree of hacking to get the OS configured to
match the hardware.

Most people buy their HW preconfigured with an OS. Granted, you could win doing that with Linux. Shifting over to a new OS, yes, people chase around drivers. The question is whether it's relatively easy to add new drivers. I find that as long as HW is "sufficiently modern," on Windows it's pretty easy. But, if the HW is old, then nobody is interested in supporting it and you have problems.


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