Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Nov 2004 20:49 UTC
"Desktop Linux is almost soup. We only have a few items left on the short list. Will we do it? If history is an indicator, the answer is yes." Read this article at LXer. Read more for a short list of my personal needs before I could say "yes, I can switch to Linux or FreeBSD full time".
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If the card is actually *supported* (which is the tricky part, admittedly, especially with 802.11g stuff), Mandrake at least and I believe SuSE and probably some other distros can configure all the necessary stuff for basic connect-to-an-access-point work through their standard network connection programs (including encryption). Getting most 802.11g cards to work is an exercise in frustration, unfortunately, but it's getting a little better. I really hope the BSD guys' campaign to open up the firmware works out.
ACPI I agree on too, but again the hardware manufacturers could do so much more to help. The acpi4linux team has a lot of very, very good coders who work on the thing constantly. I find it hard to believe that it wouldn't work fine by now in all cases if some hardware wasn't fairly fundamentally broken.