Paul G. Allen wrote:
But it was a fun learning curve.
Yes it was. That first summer I spent learning Linux was one of my best ever.
Are you referring to the lack of good 3D drivers for all the various cards on the market? The NVIDIA cards and drivers work great, but if you want a choice other than NVIDIA, it's true, you're basically SOL.
But those are proprietary blobs from Nvidia. They bite me in the ass every time I want to do something unusual like compile a kernel with xen. Not to mention that I would like it much better if they were GPL so I don't have to once again trust my fate to a big corporation. But that is a dead horse.
Maybe Vista is new, but there's really no excuse for the problems it has or lack of drivers. XP was new, it had good driver support. M$ has had plenty of time to develop (or have developed for them) drivers. I hope it flops, not just because it's M$, but because it's a POS is sooo many ways and I don't want to have to support it or otherwise deal with it.
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