Posted by: AnomalousUser
on December 13, 2004 08:48 AM
I think you are missing 'the point'.
It is commonplace for people to complain "Why would anyone buy an OS if the hardware doesn't work ?"
Turn that around and it becomes "Why buy the hardware if the OS doesn't work?"
Any modems, scanners or other hardware that will not work on Linux is junk as far as I'm concerned. I don't care that it works on windows any more than I would care if it ran on VMS. I use Linux and if it doesn't work for me then it IS the hardware not supporting the OS. If you have sundry win(now there's a clue!)modems, scanners and other junk cluttering up your space, then for pity's sake throw that junk away! Or give it to some poor windows user.
You are stuck in a rut where you say "I can't get rid of windows because I can't get rid of this old hardware". So what is the reason you can't get rid of the hardware?
What I like about this article is the part where Rob say's "..we're at the point where we can safely -- and provably -- say Linux works "out of the box" on over 90% of all mass-market PC hardware."<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.. now that is a major achievement, with very little support from hardware manufacturers.
You complain about the fact that you have ended up with some hardware that falls into the 10%. But rather than see it as a problem easily solved (ditch the hardware), you see it as an obstacle. This article is trying to point out the flaw in that type of thinking. Suddenly, it stops being something you have to wait for someone else to fix.
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Posted by: AnomalousUser on December 13, 2004 08:48 AMIt is commonplace for people to complain "Why would anyone buy an OS if the hardware doesn't work ?"
Turn that around and it becomes "Why buy the hardware if the OS doesn't work?"
Any modems, scanners or other hardware that will not work on Linux is junk as far as I'm concerned. I don't care that it works on windows any more than I would care if it ran on VMS. I use Linux and if it doesn't work for me then it IS the hardware not supporting the OS. If you have sundry win(now there's a clue!)modems, scanners and other junk cluttering up your space, then for pity's sake throw that junk away! Or give it to some poor windows user.
You are stuck in a rut where you say "I can't get rid of windows because I can't get rid of this old hardware". So what is the reason you can't get rid of the hardware?
What I like about this article is the part where Rob say's "..we're at the point where we can safely -- and provably -- say Linux works "out of the box" on over 90% of all mass-market PC hardware."<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.. now that is a major achievement, with very little support from hardware manufacturers.
You complain about the fact that you have ended up with some hardware that falls into the 10%. But rather than see it as a problem easily solved (ditch the hardware), you see it as an obstacle. This article is trying to point out the flaw in that type of thinking. Suddenly, it stops being something you have to wait for someone else to fix.
cheers, and good luck.
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