Bret,
I really don't know how Asus treats FreeDOS, I didn't even know FreeDOS could
be on those machines before Asus put the blame on it.
I use Windows, LiveCDs, but except command prompt under Windows, I never boot
on DOS only.
Windows does boot well... as long as it's boot option 1, because Asus crap BIOS
is unable to use any other option 2, 3, etc.
I don't know about any other DOS-kind and will not test them, the point is to
have at least default stuffs working already.
Jayden,
I totally agree that it should probably be notified that Asus and FreeDOS are
not 100% compatible and ASUS computers with FreeDOS embedded may not work
properly... because of Asus's unability to use it, not because of FreeDOS.
So maybe the warning should be that Asus uses FreeDOS on some of their products
but due to a BIOS issue some features might not work as expected.
Rugxulo,
Asus is selling PCs worldwide and have technical support in most languages as
far as I know. Well, french and english so-called support are in maghreb and
other cheaper places like many lowcost companies, but they also are present
worldwide (as far as I know), as for commercials, resselers and else. Anyway no
matters the country of their head-office, they have to respect any law and
rules of any country they sell their products in, like for any other
brand/companies.
As far as I know, most countries, governments and customers do care about bugs
and problems, this is why products come with warranties (even some clothes). A
company refusing to offer this warranty risks to have to pay millions to its
customers (or even governments) in case of procecution. That's what will
hopefully happen (again) to Asus... A computer unable to boot is not "harmful"
enought you think ? If they are unable to propose a feature working properly,
they just shouldn't propose it.
You may not know it but a computer is not a game boy, it's also used to work
buy a few million people, and what you call "obscure" OS are used buy million
of prople too, including technicians, admins, banks, polices and governments,
as secured/virus-proof vpn remote systems for example... but once again, if
"most people" really didn't care, it would have been more clever not to propose
this option, right ? Sorry kid, but you should learn a bit more about computers
and what they are used for instead of guessing what the world "think", really.
I don't get your point talking about games, kid, and just so you know, this
"ROG" computer has the aesthetic of a pro model, not a kid one, but who cares
and how is it related !? And why should customers care about Asus having "BIOS
engineers" or not ?!?
You may not know but facebook is free, not 2000$ and clever humans created
"standards" so most of the millions web browsers, office suites and
applications can work together no matter the hardware... but once again, how is
it even related to a BIOS/boot issue ? Don't you know it's totally Windows
UNrelated ?! But yes, even if this exemple is stupid, browsers DO update
regularly to solve their problems, so according to your example Asus MUST
update their BIOS too, because after all most of us don't care about browsers
updates and only "geeks" must encounter specific bugs... right ?
I'm surprise people who accept to pay for "somehow" working crap exist, but
luckely most people don't and so we have warranties and laws to protect
consumers agains not honest companies from selling shit and say "you paid, too
late, you should have known before buying and should be glad a part of it is
working because it's hard to create a working stuff".
One last thing Rugxulo: you should search a bit about what % of work is
dedicated to creating things and what % is dedicated to optimisation and
bug-tracking (in most good companies), you'll be amazed and you should
understand a bit more what most of 7 billions customers really agree to pay for.
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 15:05:31 +0100
> From: e.a...@jpberlin.de
> To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FW: FreeDOS compatibility issue according to Asus
>
>
> Hi Jayden,
>
> > Well,perhaps we say this from now on:We should posts/notify on our website
> > that FreeDOS isn't compatible with some ASUS computers.
>
> But that is NOT what Teddy is complaining about! He complains
> about the user-unfriendly boot device priority list config in
> his BIOS of some Asus computer: While that menu has a list of
> devices to try to boot, his computer only tries the first and
> then only offers "change disk and press key" style action, no
> "try next device on the list" choice as he rightfully expects.
>
> This is annoying, but as far as I can tell, it has NOTHING to
> do with DOS, so there is nothing that we have to say about it.
>
> Regards, Eric
>
>
>
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