On Tuesday 24 March 2009 21:18:48 John Cooper wrote: > Mark Elkins wrote: > > John > > > > I beg to disagree with your statement although I would agree that things > > are improving all the time. > > > > Mark > > > > --- On Tue, 24/3/09, John Cooper <l...@discoverlinux.co.uk> wrote: > > > > From: John Cooper <l...@discoverlinux.co.uk> > > Subject: Re: [Dorset] Microsoft Vista Refund > > To: mark_elk...@bcs.org, "Dorset Linux User Group" > > <dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> Date: Tuesday, 24 March, 2009, 6:59 PM > > > > Mark Elkins wrote: > >> Sean > >> > >> Even though a staff discount is available is this Acer laptop the best > >> you can buy to run Ubuntu? It might actually be a better to buy a Dell > >> (or other make if you can get it) with Ubuntu pre-installed. > >> > >> The reason for this advice has been covered on the Dorset LUG before - > >> basically that it can be very time consuming and close on impossible to > >> get everything working - due to the complex components used in laptops > >> as opposed to desktop pcs. For example internal wireless cards on > >> laptops are a particular problem. > >> > >> Mark Elkins > >> Chair and Treasurer > >> OSSG > > > > This is not true anymore. I haven't seen Ubuntu fail to discover all the > > components and configure them correctly. They really have spent much > > time sorting the wireless side. The worst case scenario for wireless is > > you pay $15 to linuxant for their excellent driverloader software and it > > just works. There are still too many people spreading the FUD (fear, > > uncertainly, doubt) even with the Linux community which doesn't actually > > match the reality of a modern Linux distro. > > > > John. > > So you are questioning my expertise in Linux? Things improved many years > ago with the 2.6 kernel. Today they have surpassed Windoz making Linux > far superior and laptops are no longer problematic. > > John. > RHCE.
Surely the question should be "why is it, if anybody disagree's with your opinion, you take it as an insult"? Mark was purely saying it how he see things, there was no mention of your "Linux Expertise" Tim -- Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ irc://irc.blitzed.org:6667/dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-04-01 20:00
