On Wednesday 09 August 2006 12:59 am, Clayton wrote:
Now assume that business requires that you need to install something new on that. It is a PITA, too much effort & time.
assume you want to install a new thing on w98?
I don't hope for you to have ave to install XP on an old laptop...
finding XP drivers for old hardware is a nightmare, when SUSE installs most of the HW silently
You know... it's funny how people are. SUSE installs off the DVD and IDs and installs the drivers for 99% of the hardware they have.. and fails on one thing. For that one thing they need to go out on to the internet and find/download the driver (usually there is one... like the nVidia driver for example) or come to the list here for a little assistnace. They encounter this and get all hot and bothered.
Yet...
Yet if they go and install the latest version of XP (with SP2 slipstreamed in even) they still have to go out and download/install.. the video driver - the default XP video driver is unusable. They have to download/find/install the motherboard drivers to get the network and sound working (assuming they are using the onboard NIC and AC/97 sound) - and they are SOL if they don't have the CD/DVD that came with the motherboard because they will not be able to get the network up and running using the stuff that is on the XP master disk. If they are unlucky and have an older version of XP (pre SP2), their USB devices won't work right until they install a sep USB driver. They will often need to install sep drivers for the modem.. the scanner, the printer (and god help them if they have the HP AllInOne printer/scanner/fax thing... and try to get that working "out of the box" in XP). Bluetooth? Ha ha ha... yah right... good luck getting that to work on XP without having to do anything.
The list goes on and on.... and apparently it's OK to have to do this with Windows, yet when one thing poses a little obstacle in Linux - if the modem doesn't work "out of the box" because you have to buy/downlaod/install a binary driver... or the video doesn't work in full 3D mode because you have to download and install a sep binary driver, the world comes to an end, they drop Linux like it was poisoned... and go back to Windows all while grumping that Linux is crap.
Well, they are fooling themselves. Let them rant because they are happy being blinded by their own misconceptions.
C.
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All I can say is WOW... That was great... Can I use part of that in a sig? ;) Joe