Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Apr 2009 14:28 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has struck back at claims made by Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc about Windows' success in netbooks compared to Linux. Most of the claims made by LeBlanc are refuted quite accurately by Canonical's Chris Kenyon in a blog post titled "Microsoft, FUD and the netbook market".
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I think you can hardly compare Linux and Windows on a driver base without giving context. E.g. Linux supports many technologies that Windows does not like ARM.
While Windows XP may not have that many default drivers that is no surprise after all, first Windows XP is _old_ while there are constantly new versions of Linux distributions with new kernel versions etc. and second they have no central way to install drivers from the net yet, what could solve the problem outlined before (Windows 7 is supposed to fix that).
Though I guess it is safe to say that windows has more support for peripheral devices than Linux so far.
Well that is not a fact. Maybe it is your perception, but those people who don't have that problem (simply plug and play) probably would disagree. It really depends on what devices you have, you may be one of the lucky ones without any problems or another that is riddled with them.
E.g. my printer (choose a faster driver though), my scanner, my fathers camera, my brothers camera, my graphics card (R500 series) work all out of the box. While all of these aspects need further care on Windows XP.
For me most devices do not work out of the box on Windows XP, not even close, e.g. repainting is so slow, maybe 2 fps. Windows 7 tries to fix that -- imo a great thing -- though I have not tested that myself.