I hope you didn't take me wrong, I was in no way
defending M$. I'm a long time Unix developer and
consider M$ the skurge of the earth. All I meant to
say is that Linux has a ways to go before it is ready
for the average user on the street.
Carson
--- Bryan-TheBS-Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org> wrote:
> Carson Wilcox wrote:
> > While I agree with the "you are not learning
> anything"
> > for the most part. I have to comment that while
> > learing is a good thing, for Linux to become more
> > mainstream, things like autodetect need to work a
> lot
> > better. The majority of users are not interested
> in
> > "learning", the simply what to sit down and "use".
> I'm
> > not making a judgement, simply facing the facts of
> the
> > real world.
>
> And the real world dictates that Microsoft is far
> worse. Vendor
> participation and support is key. It is the only
> reason MS-DOS 7.x
> (aka Windows 95/98/ME) seems to autodetect hardware
> better is
> because it has vendor support (as well as uses
> "aggressive"/"crash
> prone" probing -- but that's another story). Of
> course Windows ME
> "compatibility" has gone down significantly compared
> to its MS-DOS
> 7.x siblings, and don't even get me started on
> NT/2000. ;-PPP
>
> I could explain all the details of the SBLive
> driver's development
> for Linux, but I'll leave that to those who want to
> hear it
> off-list.
>
> -- Bryan "TheBS" Smith
> Longtime NT and Linux user and new subscriber
>
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