Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 15, 2006 03:15 AM
You're more interested in starting an argument, than participating on linux.com.
Diverse opinions are welcome, but truthfully, what are you doing here? You seem lost, or came to troll.
FWIW I am a Linux BSD and Windows user. I use what I find to be the best tool for the job AND what satisfies my technical itch to learn.
Would you huff and puff to a carpenter how it's a waste of time to learn his craft, and just go to Ikea. Have some appreciation that some folks just UNDERSTAND this geeky stuff better than you, and consider that knowledge a plus.
Driver's are not that great on Windows either. You are at the driver maker's mercy. Case in point: I spent $1800 on a wide-platform UMAX SCSI scanner, and 3 years later UMAX declined to make 2000/XP compatible drivers. Running Windows 98 was NOT an option since the memory management (important for large scans) was always crap. UMAX would not even reply to inquiries -- just respond with form letters.
Had the specs been open for this scanner, 'someone' (not me) would have maintained the driver. This is true for any OS, but in Linux most hardware drivers are open sourced. Some hardware is still closed, and limps along in some manner, but you're not screwed into paying for a new hardware.
I've been using Linux since before kernel 2.0. There is NOT a lot of hardware which was discontinued to force you into an upgrade.
Windows Media Center is in large part a DIRECT response to innovation by MythTV. Who cares if some off the shelf hardware chooses not to have drivers for Linux. Why would you waste time posting a concern for this? Linux is open... I don't know too many people who get far scripting their Windows boxes. Not everyone wants to be forced into expensive microsoft development tools, which is why most cool gizmos for Windows are closed source shareware (and why Windows people spread viruses everywhere running stupid 'date cracks' for their stolen software).
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Re:Using Windows instead
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 15, 2006 03:15 AMDiverse opinions are welcome, but truthfully, what are you doing here? You seem lost, or came to troll.
FWIW I am a Linux BSD and Windows user. I use what I find to be the best tool for the job AND what satisfies my technical itch to learn.
Would you huff and puff to a carpenter how it's a waste of time to learn his craft, and just go to Ikea. Have some appreciation that some folks just UNDERSTAND this geeky stuff better than you, and consider that knowledge a plus.
Driver's are not that great on Windows either. You are at the driver maker's mercy. Case in point: I spent $1800 on a wide-platform UMAX SCSI scanner, and 3 years later UMAX declined to make 2000/XP compatible drivers. Running Windows 98 was NOT an option since the memory management (important for large scans) was always crap. UMAX would not even reply to inquiries -- just respond with form letters.
Had the specs been open for this scanner, 'someone' (not me) would have maintained the driver. This is true for any OS, but in Linux most hardware drivers are open sourced. Some hardware is still closed, and limps along in some manner, but you're not screwed into paying for a new hardware.
I've been using Linux since before kernel 2.0. There is NOT a lot of hardware which was discontinued to force you into an upgrade.
Windows Media Center is in large part a DIRECT response to innovation by MythTV. Who cares if some off the shelf hardware chooses not to have drivers for Linux. Why would you waste time posting a concern for this? Linux is open... I don't know too many people who get far scripting their Windows boxes. Not everyone wants to be forced into expensive microsoft development tools, which is why most cool gizmos for Windows are closed source shareware (and why Windows people spread viruses everywhere running stupid 'date cracks' for their stolen software).
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