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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Open source drivers were just one of the three options I gave.
NVidia *does* provide drivers in a single standard binary package, that will work on any distro. The problem is that it lacks a complete gui installer, and no-one else but them can write and redistibute one. (Although it may be possible to cludge some kind of wrapper....)
When there are open source drivers available, hardware installation is normally totally automatic. For example, on my machine if I run Win2K, the sound card and web cam need drivers to be downloaded and installed. With Mandrake 9.1 they all just work.