Star Desktop Linux: The Final Hurdles; Editorial Follows
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Nov 2004 20:49 UTC
Linux "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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@lorenzo:
by AdamW on Tue 9th Nov 2004 22:15 UTC

yup. sometimes windows works, and sometimes linux doesn't.

but then, sometimes it's the other way around. I'm glad all your laptop's hardware works in XP. That's great. With my laptop, half of the hardware has no drivers for XP, or even for Windows 2000. The only two OSes where everything on it works are Windows 98 and Linux. (Well, I guess the BSDs might work too, though I don't know if they support the webcam. I haven't tried them.)

I'll let you guess which one I choose.

Yes, so it's an old system. But it still works, and more than well enough to do everything I want to. Why should I buy a new one just to run a vaguely securable and supported operating system?