Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Got to say, Linux's #1 drawback is lack of solid wireless support. It can get very, very unnerving. Particularly because of the chicken-and-egg thing: you install Linux and you want to get the wifi working, but you can't download the appropriate driver because you can't connect. Then the default network-manager is really crappy. My Linux experience improved considerably when I found a drop-in replacement called wicd (http://wicd.sf.net).
My router burned out this morning (nice smell of ozone), and when I went to the nerd store to get another, my eee pc was there on sale for $249, $100 less than I paid for it. The sign on it says "last one".
