I think it's because Mac's aren't an OS. They are a software/hardware combo, all provided by the same vendor. Thus all of the built in hardware is guaranteed to work because it's built by the same company. True, there are peripherals, but it's less critical than it is for Windows. Windows is the gold standard of hardware support because they have to support *everything*. If you want to claim good hardware support, then that's what you are going after. Comparing Linux to MacOSX only works if you are comparing a pre-built Linux system (say, a netbook) to a complete Mac. As more dedicated PC like devices arrive built on a Linux stack (like ChromeOS, if the rumors are true) then this will become a more relevant comparison.
Note. I think a lot of the requests for HW support in Linux is theoretical. In practice people care about printers, scanners, cameras, and MP3 players. That's 99% of what people want out of their Linux box, and I get the impression that a modern Linux distro supports those quite well, or at least as well as Windows. (Printing in *any* OS is still a pain, which is a travesty of the 21st century) - Josh On Jul 11, 2009, at 9:13 PM, Weiqi Gao wrote: > > [I'm 15 minutes into #266 and I have to pause the podcast and shoot > this > email out. (If I don't and wait till the end, I would forget all > about > it.)] > > Why is it that when it comes to the question of Linux's hardware > support, people always bring Windows out for comparison? While in > every > other occasion, people beat Linux with Mac OS X? > > Surely Linux supports more hardwares than Mac OS X, doesn't it? > > -- > Weiqi Gao > weiqi...@gmail.com > http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
