Yeah, I am always wondering why people complain about lack of hardware support in free OSes. It looks like Linux and xBSD support far more hardware than Windows. Look at NetBSD. Only bleeding edge i386 hardware is not always well supported (mostly because lots i386 computers are broken in one way or another) as well as some exotic not documented Windows specific crap like Lexmark printers.
The only problem that I see is, that on every single box with hardware it is printed that it is compatible with Windows. But rarely if it works with Linux, not talking about BSD. That makes it hard to simply not buy free-OS-incompatible hardware. This has lead myself to not buying lots of hardware in the last years, I am happy that I have reached a state where my computers are working really good with Linux and BSD.
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Posted by: rabbit78 on December 11, 2004 03:56 AMThe only problem that I see is, that on every single box with hardware it is printed that it is compatible with Windows. But rarely if it works with Linux, not talking about BSD. That makes it hard to simply not buy free-OS-incompatible hardware. This has lead myself to not buying lots of hardware in the last years, I am happy that I have reached a state where my computers are working really good with Linux and BSD.
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