Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Jul 2009 21:38 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes It's time for another "OSNews asks" item. This time, I want to focus on something that I've been wanting to talk about with you all before, but never found the time for. The question is simple: which feature(s) from other operating systems would you like to see in your own main operating system?
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hardware support
by trenchsol on Fri 17th Jul 2009 16:06 UTC
trenchsol
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2006-12-07

Recently I went through a lot of problems installing HP ink jet printer (not the newest one) on Linux. Succeeded in the end. I had a lot of problems with winmodem, too, but succeeded in the end.

It is less likely to happen in Windows world, because hardware vendor is *always* guilty if it does not work under Windows. There is no excuse, and, even if problem is in Windows, vendor must find the way around, or they can forget about selling their device.

I'd like the same to be true for Linux. I don't expect it to happen anytime soon.