> so what you are saying is....most devices don't work out of the box? I > guess I asked that question wrong. Does solaris support plug n play devices? > That seems more fitting. Remember, I am trying to switch from windows... I > don't know all the techy stuff you guys do.
Well, if you are coming to Windows then you will find it is a whole new world and *everything* is different. No you will not have the large number of devices that work from the Microsoft Windows world but you will generally find that a lot do these days. I do know that I was forced to use Windows XP last week and it was a painful experience for me. There are things there that people seem to take for granted that would drive me nuts in Solaris. The most glaring thing was that I had to select text with my mouse and then hit CTRL-C in order to copy the text to the clipboard. If I wanted to drop that text in somewhere I had to place my mouse carefully and then hit CTRL-V or use some pop up menu to "paste". I live in front of a Solaris machine daily and all I have ever needed was to select text and then use the middle mouse button to drop it into whereever. I can not do this on Windows XP and it drove me batty for at least a day. Also, I kept getting these popup boxes asking me about a firewall setting thing and I got warnings that my machine was not protected and dialog boxes would popup for seemingly no reason. On day one I held down a shift key for too long and some bloody keyboard helper mode switched on complete with another poop-up ( spelling error on purpose ) box. I was stuck with capital letters and I couldn't figure out how to reset that. I asked someone how to turn that off and they told me, get this, they told me to reboot it?! Yeah .. just reboot. That seemed to work. People live like this ? I am back to Solaris this week and I am happy. I don't have a Lotus Notes client for Admin or Programming work and I don't have device support for USB attached coffee warmers. But everything works the way I expect it to and I never see annoying dialog boxes. I think I'll copy this into my blog. Oh ... and another thing! I was stuck with ONE desktop on Windows! There was no way to shift to another desktop or to tell a window to move to another WorkSpace because there only was one. The Windows geeks had no clue what I was talking about and I got told to just minimize it. That drove me nuts. anyways ... Solaris is different. Better in my opinion. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
