Sean Miller wrote:
Without being a pain in the bottom.. I understand the whole Linux
situation very clearly.. but at the end of the day if it doesn't
work on
Linux then consumers are going to blame Linux - not the manufacturers.
No, that's a misconception... nobody would
I believe the argument is not whether windows is easier than linux or vice
versa. That is common man's opinion about linux since he/she expects
everything to behave like windows. Everything which behaves differently
from Windows is considered to be 'difficult' because they are only used to
using
Hi,
Renjith Nair has described exactly my feelings on installing hardware in Linux.
I know my problems are caused by lack of experience, something shared by many
others.
Once installation issues are eased, Ubuntu will sell itself.
Regards
John--
ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
It might be good to have a feature in ubuntu, where if something isnt
supported you get a little popup (like the update manager) saying that
your piece of hardware isnt supported / no drivers etc, and to maybe
link to some help or something like that. Maybe refer you to launchpad
bugs?
I can see
Dougie Richardson wrote:
[...]
This may happen sooner than expected, with respect to HP: here's an
interview with HP's Randy Hergett, Director of Engineering
We need solutions for this problem. All persons won't buy boxes from
Tesco and so it is necessary that we have to support the commonly
available wireless cards, even if the manufacturer is not supporting
Linux. Difficult task to achieve .. but that is the way forward. If
the number of
John Levin wrote:
LeeGroups wrote:
I seriously don't get why people 'think everything just works' in Windows...
Most people aren't interested in arguments about whether Windows has
similar problems.
Most people aren't interested in upgrading Operating Systems.
Most people encounter
Dougie Richardson wrote:
[...]
This may happen sooner than expected, with respect to HP: here's an
interview with HP's Randy Hergett, Director of Engineering
LeeGroups wrote:
We need solutions for this problem. All persons won't buy boxes from
Tesco and so it is necessary that we have to support the commonly
available wireless cards, even if the manufacturer is not supporting
Linux. Difficult task to achieve .. but that is the way forward. If