Linked by Adam S on Sun 6th Apr 2003 17:18 UTC
This is my reaction to Tsu Dho Nimh's "Migrating to Linux not easy for Windows users" featured on Linuxworld.com recently. It's not a response, I'm not challenging his opinions, which I feel are not only valid, but mostly right, it's just a reaction.
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...neither Windows ME nor XP had built-in support for my Toshiba Satellite Pro 4270 XDVD's Savage IX-MX chip.
I still do not have my Toshiba Tecra 750DVD MPEG decoder working under Windows, and my HP Deskjet 970C insists on printing a "garbage" page every 20 minutes when my wife is using Windows ME. I have not yet figured out either of these problems.
Oddly enough, when these sorts of hardware problems (Missing, broken or poor drivers) manifest themselves with Windows, the manufacturer always gets the blame. Yet when these hardware problems show up under Linux, it is always the fault of "those damn Linux hackers".
Why is the general expectation for Linux to support all of your hardware out of the box and work flawlessly, while the first thing anyone does when they install Windows is to download, update and install a whole bunch of drivers from the manufacters?