Linked by Iain Alexander on Thu 17th Apr 2003 07:28 UTC
Several days ago I wrote a rather scathing article about my utter dismay and disappoint with Mandrake 9.1 and by association, Linux as a whole. Since then I have had many many flames and equally as many agreeing emails (is there a simple opposite word for flame?) Since then I have been trying, really really trying to get my system working fully. But time and again I'm coming up against the same brick wall of (un)usability, computer esotericism and down right idiocy. 
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Good point, but there's a snag. A good deal of hardware that's considered 'compatable' with Linux requires a lot of work to get it to work. And with the big desktop distros it becomes less an issue of weather Linux supports it, but weather that distro can detect it accurately and set it up for you. Admittedly, I haven't looked too hard, but there ought to be a site that documents 'how supported' (for lack of a better term) something is, in other words, how easily it's set up... weather there's a simple binary install, simple compile, or you have to go so far as reconfiguring your kernel and/or editing a dozen elusive configuration files, and how stable/extensive the support is.