On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 10:45, Devin Pratt wrote: > "Things just work"? In Linux? Have you been reading the posts to this > mailing list?
Yup. And I stand by my statement. Windows XP, 2000, 98, you name it. Net card isn't be recognized no matter what I do in win2000. probably need to reinstall windows. Boot into linux. Yep. It just works. Sure you might have to tweak /etc/modules.conf or manually load a driver with modprobe. Compared to the pain and hassle of removing and resinstalling device drivers in win2k through their wizard interface (not to mention diggin through WINNT\INF to remove inf files to force windows to look in the right places, what I do in Linux is a breeze. Let me qualify my general statement: For standard run-of-the-mill hardware (video, ethernet, hard drive, usb devices such as disks, mice, firewire drives, sound cards (say a nice standard one like sblive or some of well-done on-board chipsets) things do just work. For some of the weirder hardware (newer hardware), yeah, you may have problems. MS has done a lot of good things to make it easier to use hardware, that much I will give you. And it's better now with XP than it ever was before. Michael > I will gladly admit that things are getting a lot > better. I had one box with onboard sound that didn't work under one > version of RedHat (this was a year ago). I installed a newer version of > mandrake and it worked perfectly. Now on my laptop RedHat uses the > onboard sound perfectly. Things are better and getting better but no > one can convince me that its EASIER than WinXP (at least at the present > time). Now in the case that both don't work, you actually have a chance > of getting it to work under Linux, where as with Windows you are hosed. > > Now, as regarding the post about spending 10 hours trying to get some > drivers to work under Windows, I think I've actually found the problem: > > "...sound and modem working on his @&%&@$&%! WinME box." (emphasis and > pseudo explitive added) > > I like to pretend that WinME never happend. It sure shouldn't have. > WinXP is nice. > > Devin > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
