> is it for the general users who want an alternative for windows or the few > fakirs[1] who put ideology above all and are not willing to compromise at > any cost.
Ultimately - yes - the general user. For the fakirs - absolutely yes :). GNU/Linux distros has almost reached a state where it works straight out of the box for most of the common hardware. Ex: Ubuntu, Fedora. It is not wrong to hold on to ideology. Not everybody does that and those who do that are very valuable contributors to the community. People who hold fast to ideologies normally tend to be the hardest workers too and would do anything to promote their ideologies. > is linux intended by design to always remain out of the reach of the person > who refuses to jump through hoops to get the hardware to work . Like I mentioned before, it works for most hardware. But for those that do not - there are two reasons. Primarily it is because the hardware vendor does not release specs. The second reason is that the hardware that are not supported tend to be not so common devices or brands that does not have enough developer users who can spend time in reverse engineering a driver. > i myself back in the days had to switch to windows because i bought an > unsupported video card and did not have the money to buy an new one. I can empathize with you. I have been able to get most of the hardware that I use and that I sell to work well with Ubuntu but for those that I could not, I had to give up. I have not had to switch to Windows though :). Cheers Anoop -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.zyxware.com http://www.thondomraughts.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Be the change you wish to see in the world M. K. Gandhi ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
