On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:09:17PM -0700, DJA wrote:
Windows works best for reasons we're all familiar with (read: market share). Most everyone else is just doing a lot of research (usually including looking to see what Windows does, and duplicating that behavior right or wrong), tedious testing, or just guessing. Most do all three.
I don't think Windows works because of market share, I think windows works because the vendors take the effort to make the exact install image it comes with work. At my work, the laptops run an IT image instead of the vendors image. There are an awful lot of people walking around with their laptops propped slightly open, and usually if you ask they will tell you it is because the machines don't suspend reliably. A fresh windows laptop usually works fine until you do silly things like install software or extra hardware on it. But, as far as networking and/or USB and suspend Windows (at least XP) is just absolutely stupid. I've never had a USB device recover from suspend without having to be removed and reinserted after wakeup. These seem to work fine on OSX and Linux. Windows also seems to have a habit of some network thing preventing a suspend. That usually results in the very hot, still running laptop in the bag with the nearly dead battery. My attitude about suspending is that if something like a network connection is still up, tough, it is going away. I'm suspending because I'm about to go somewhere else, and I need the computer to be off. The only problems I've ever had with suspend on the Mac is with VMWare. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
