Linked by Ryan (aka Aurex) on Thu 10th Jun 2004 19:55 UTC
Ever since Microsoft started publicly outing Linux with their "Get the Facts" campaign, I have seen numerous articles and studies about the TCO (total cost of ownership) of both products in a head to head manner. However, I have yet to see one article discuss the TCO for home users and small businesses. I have thought long and crunched many numbers to devise a conclusion to this years old debate and I think the results are obvious... Windows is way more expensive than Linux.
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I installed SuSE 8.0 on a newly bought machine and it worked perfectly. Just get a well supported distro or buy a pre-installled Linux machine from Walmart. Again, if you install Windows XP on a new machine that is not pre-installed you won't get as far either. Linux has better out of the box hardware support. With Windows you have to insert driver CDs.
The hardware support is moot. Get a pay for distro and you will get tons of propreitery drivers that "just work".