Linked by Chris Nabinger on Wed 14th Jan 2004 20:23 UTC
I'm a windows user by nature, I've been playing around with Linux for a little while, I'm no Expert in any way but I've used quite a few distro's. The first distro I ever stuck with for any amount of time Was Xandros 1.0, which a friend provided for me. Except for the fact that it ran an old version of KDE it was perfect for me, but the old KDE crippled my work. Enter Xandros 2.0.
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do you remember win95 ever autodetecting 90% of your hardware?
Yup. I never had to edit any sort of text file to get the hardware I had on my 95 box to work. Can't say the same for Linux of the same era.
or autodetecting, configuring networking?
Again, I don't remember ever having a problem using my cable modem back then. I tried it under Linux and gave up after having to compile drivers, edit numerous text files, and poll the isa slots to get a device ID.
...how about even having USB support?
Now there's a strawman argument if ever I saw one. USB wasn't even out at the time Windows 95 was released. How can you use the inability of an OS to utilize a non-existant (at the time) technology as a problem? Microsoft released 95 OSR2 at about the same time USB was becoming available and then followed it up with 98.