--- Devin Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think in most cases it is much, much easier to install new stuff > in Windows than in Linux. Most hardware can just be plugged in and
> Windows already has the drivers. In some cases you have to slap the > driver CD in the drive. It just works. I could offer plenty of counter-examples, though, where hardware Just Works in Linux, and Just Won't Work in Windows. The first two that come to mind are my scanner -- just great in Linux for years, but XP won't talk to it at all, and it's flaky at best under 2000 or 98, and my laptop video chip -- any Linux since RH 7 detects it and sets it up automagically, but for Windows 2000 you have to hope you can find someone who *has* the driver CD, because the manufacturer won't admit (to most customers, anyway) that any such driver exists. ===== PGP Key ID: 071B173D Fingerprint: ED30 B048 6833 56B4 28C0 CE52 F12B 884A 071B 173D __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
