On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 12:37:26AM +0000, SI Reasoning wrote: > I am in the middle of a benefit so I have not participated in the development > process this time. But my brother (a very loud microsoft proponent) has tried it > out. He actually was very impressed but ran into two problems that I heard about, > one dealing with the nvidea driver and the other was the mouse lockup problem. I > don't have enough info to help debug it, but it appears that I have seen similar > issues reported. For what it is worth, he runs a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop. For > people like him, if this was the release, he would install it, run into a problem > with a basic issue, and lose interest (this has been the history as he has installed > every new version of Mandrake). These are the people who will need to convert. He is > open, but Mandrake has lost out because of the little things. When the little > details are handled, we are there.
Well it sounds to me that basically your brother is expecting as good of hardware support for Linux as for Windows. And unfortunately that just isn't going to happen right now. As long as hardware manufacturers refuse to take the Linux market seriously and don't provide high quality drivers for their hardware this is going to be an issue. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.
