On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 00:22 +0200, João Miguel Pais wrote:
windows might be not "pure" in body and spirit, but it works, and you
don't have to loose as much time setting it up as with unix systems
hmm,
i didnt want to answer on this, so i appologize forehand ! (please stop reading if youre affraid of "flamewar", lol)
but so many people just dont think far enough...
why does ms-windows just work ?
why do hardware manufacturers do only ms-windows "compatible" hardware ?
closed source, so what! but why only windows drivers ?
do you really think "linux" is to blame that some "designed for microsoft" hardware doesnt work under "linux" ?! O.o
btw. do the "mac-people" now start to whine too why "designed for microsoft" hardware doesnt work in their intel "linux"/unix, eg. osx ?
if you know howto install ms-windows, and you know that your hardware works under linux, i cant see ANY reason why you would have problems installing linux, like ubuntu.
mein gott... -andre
FYI: on my desktop (k7s5a, duron1.2, geforce6200, miro pctv, terraTV) and dell latitude c800, ubuntu "just worked", and even installed faster than ms-windows, LOL? (with all drivers and essential software, of course!)... ah, and even my printer/scanner hp psc1215 worked "out-of-the-box" under ubuntu...