On Thursday 09 August 2007 10:08, Mike wrote:
On Thursday 09 August 2007 16:54, Tero Pesonen wrote:
FWIW, a friend has an IBM ThinkPad, that came loaded with Windows 98. A couple of years ago, she upgraded to XP and found she could no longer play video DVDs. After some checking, we found that she has to buy the necessary software, from a web site that's very irritating and difficult to navigate through. She decided against providing her credit card info and went without DVD video playback. Another issue is when you install such things, you often get a load of crapware along with it. So, it is not always so easy for Windows users either.
interesting. This was new to me.
It is? Here's a challenge. Take a new computer with NO OS on it. Install XP and tell me what you can do with it except surf the net with IE, use Outlook express, and play solitaire.
Oh, and I hope all the hardware you have works "out of the box". It might or not. If it doesn't, you have to go out and find the driver. Sound user friendly? Most things will work, but there are a few oddballs out there that don't. Look at the driver disk sometime for the equipment you buy. Does the average user know what type of network card they have? Not usually. It was working when I bought it, they say. So now you have to find that driver. Oh, but without the network card you can't connect to the net to find it. Been there done that. Thank goodness for a live linux cd. It found the card, and happened to have a driver.
Mike
I got computer with recovery CD for operating system only. The rest should be on "hidden partition" that was wiped off. It was interesting experience. Only screen, keyboard, mouse, USB and CD drive worked out of the box. What I did was to install openSUSE and it added memory card reader, sound, network, printer, better graphic and more in software. Than I was able to go to the net and collect missing pieces for "out of the box" OS. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org