Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 15, 2006 07:30 AM
"Linux also lacks decent drivers for more recent hardware, such as my Canon Pixma IP5000 printer and Creative Webcam Pro."
Never used a webcam so can't say. HP printers are all I've ever used with windows or linux, at least since I had a dot-matrix printer anyhow, and I've never had a problem with those. If canon couldn't be stuffed writing linux drivers tho I guess you're stuck in that regard.
"Apparently Windows 95 is the last version you ever used if you seriously believe that. Windows XP Professional is rock solid - my PC has run for months without a reboot."
And mine was lucky to run for a day without needing a reboot, before I installed ubuntu on it. Grats on picking a hardware/software configuration that doesn't make Windows fall over so often like my installation of it did. I'll stick with the easier option tho thankyou.
"You get what you pay for."
Yeah.....but I don't really think that nice looking box is really worth that much...
"However, to be fair, I will add this shortcoming of Windows XP - if you are an ignorant careless n00b you are far more likely to be infected by viruses/spyware/malware. However, for those with a little common sense and an arsenal of a few free/open-source applications, this isn't a problem."
Can you say Blaster? Fortuantly I wasn't still using Windows when that thing hit. Had to lend my computer to a couple of friends so they could look up Blaster fixes online tho, so I guess in that way you could say Blaster did affect me lol
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Re:Using Windows instead
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 15, 2006 07:30 AMNever used a webcam so can't say. HP printers are all I've ever used with windows or linux, at least since I had a dot-matrix printer anyhow, and I've never had a problem with those. If canon couldn't be stuffed writing linux drivers tho I guess you're stuck in that regard.
"Apparently Windows 95 is the last version you ever used if you seriously believe that. Windows XP Professional is rock solid - my PC has run for months without a reboot."
And mine was lucky to run for a day without needing a reboot, before I installed ubuntu on it. Grats on picking a hardware/software configuration that doesn't make Windows fall over so often like my installation of it did. I'll stick with the easier option tho thankyou.
"You get what you pay for."
Yeah.....but I don't really think that nice looking box is really worth that much...
"However, to be fair, I will add this shortcoming of Windows XP - if you are an ignorant careless n00b you are far more likely to be infected by viruses/spyware/malware. However, for those with a little common sense and an arsenal of a few free/open-source applications, this isn't a problem."
Can you say Blaster? Fortuantly I wasn't still using Windows when that thing hit. Had to lend my computer to a couple of friends so they could look up Blaster fixes online tho, so I guess in that way you could say Blaster did affect me lol
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