Linked by Adam S on Mon 14th Feb 2005 05:10 UTC
Linspire This past week, Linspire showed the first public demo of Linspire Five-0. I was lucky enough to play with it for the last week, and within, you'll find a detailed walkthrough of what's new with Linspire.
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windows hardware support
by mattb on Mon 14th Feb 2005 13:52 UTC

windows out of the box hardware support is unbelievably bad. not only that, it will barely play anything. i have never had the codec issues in linux that i have had in windows. some distros dont have dvd playback, others dont have mp3 playback, but that is two codec related installs, and you rarely have any hassles with them again. windows on the other hand is a nightmare with such things, im still not sure if its better to track everything down yourself or use one of the "codec packs" that are floating around, ive had big issues with both. same thing with drivers, i only need to download and install one driver, and that doesnt even need a reboot. on windows, its virtually every piece of hardware in my machine.