linuxjournal.com — With news today of Windows 7 being made available in no less than six different versions, it is getting harder and harder to not move lock, stock, and PGP key to Linux on a full time basis. Except…For decades, I have listened to my father gripe about the computer industry and their inability to standardize on hardware.
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djb28Feb 6, 2009
I recently built a desktop, and I can't get Linux to boot. Something with the SATA controller, I think. Anyway, I just hope that a fix comes out soon, because that's the only thing holding me back. I prefer a dual-boot setup though, so I can still play my PC games.
klasharFeb 7, 2009
"With news today of Windows 7 being made available in no less than six different versions, it is getting harder and harder to not move lock, stock, and PGP key to Linux on a full time basis"Eh? What correlation is there between '6 versions' and 'harder not to move'.
Closed AccountFeb 7, 2009
I have run Ubuntu as my primary OS for two years now and have never had issues with hardware that U could not get working. Additionally, it is not up to an OS to provide drivers for hardware- it is up to the manufacturers. If a manufacturer does not make a driver or release the specifications to coders, a driver is not likely to poof into existence.
thallenthurFeb 7, 2009
I tried to install vista today on my sister's 5 year old laptop and nothing worked, unlike Ubuntu that handled everything perfectly right out of the box. With Vista, I needed a second pc to search for the drivers on the net and it turned out that the graphics card was no longer supported by the manufacturer and the vista drivers where non existent. She needed to go back to XP once again.
dickbreathFeb 7, 2009
If you don't like Xandros, why get XP?If you're going to erase the XP off the machine, why not just erase the Xandros off? Or do you WANT to pay Microsoft a "very small licensing fee" for nothing?If I'm going to pay someone a very small licensing fee, I'd rather pay a Linux vendor than Microsoft.BTW, both of my Eee PC's are running Xandros. I may try GetEasyPeasy.com after the version based on 9.04 comes out.
addicussFeb 8, 2009
Summary of article: One thing in linux didnt work, doing a google search for a solution was hard,went back to windows. Linux hard.Hrm lets see. How long did it take me to install Windows XP on a raid, looking through google search after google search before i figured out I had to use nlite to add raid drivers to the xp disk which xp did not have by defaultHow many times have I tried to help someone with pc issues and found glaring question marks in the device manager with no easy way of figuring out what the hell that hardware wasHow many times have I had a piece of equipment (my kensington bluetooth dongle comes to mind) which I lost the driver disk for and had to hunt for hours to find a driver that worked, trying along the way, a bunch of exe files that claimed to be drivers that may have been viruses or spyware. Honestly what a s**tty article. I dont think linux is 100% ready to be a mainstream os.. but if this is the reason you claim it isnt than neither is xp by those standards. driver issues happen on all oses. The difference is a vendor will make a windows driver well before theyll offer anything for windows. Thats not really something you can fault the os with. despite that Linux has great driver support these days and almost everything ive put it on recently has worked flawlessly.