Reinier, You are right,
My workplace had a dell optiplex 330 crash and our maintenance techies
wrote-off the sata drives on it. Linux did not blue-screen at install, it
recognised the sata drives.
regards
>
> You are very right that messing with drivers and hardware
> is very annoying.
> But did you know that Ubuntu supports far more hardware
> than windows out of
> the box? Not to mention the super-easy way of installing
> any of the 22.000
> software packages available.
>
> I installed an XP machine from scratch a few times, and
> finding all the
> drivers for them also required more skills than your
> average mother-in-law
> would have.
>
> The hardware story is changing very fast these days, Even
> the 2 graphics-card
> producers are now releasing their drivers as opensource. It
> wont take long
> before your hardware is fully supported on linux the day it
> is released, and
> you get a linux driver on the CD that comes with the
> hardware.
>
>
> rgds,
>
> Reinier Battenberg
> Director
> Mountbatten Ltd.
> +256 782 801 749
> www.mountbatten.net
>
>
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