On Wednesday 03 March 2010 08:44 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
I don't deny the advances made, I was pretty much happy with Linux usability too until last month when I had to spend 2 whole days getting sound to work on a realtek chipset that shipped on a HP machine that ostensibly supports Linux.
Well, a new Lenovo laptop my organization bought came with Windows 7 pre-installed from an authorized distributor. Soundcard didn't work. Distributor's technician was called. "Sound driver for Windows 7 are not yet available", he pronounced before proceeding to install Vista.
Drivers are very hit-and-miss, I feel. In many things (video + sound cards, scanners, wireless) there is a lot of catching up to do. Other things (printers) work superbly. Adding a network printer in Ubuntu is a hundred times easier than doing so in XP or Vista (haven't tried 7).
Cheeni "Unhappy with the state of the world since 1978"
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