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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Well, when you have new hardware with a month old distro you may not even get into KDE or Gnome because you have no clue of how you should and can configure your video card.
For NVIDIA cards, if you want good 3D performance, the information is clearly explained on their web site. If you don't care much about 3D, then you have nothing to do, it works out of the box. (At least in Mandrake 10)
All new hardware have compatibility issues with Linux,
This is a completely false statement. Maybe you meant that some new hardware has compatibility issues. Even then, hardware problems are less and less frequent, especially with hw that adheres to USB standards.