Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 1st Aug 2007 20:09 UTC
If you're a Vista-wary Windows user who would rather switch than fight, should you move to a Linux distro or Apple's OS X? InformwationWeek asked a Mac fan and a Linux advocate to lead a guided tour of each OS.
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Member since:2007-02-17
"working" drivers being the key word. When people go out and buy their latest and greatest toys, they don't want just the bare minimum feature set, they want what they paid for - and many times, what they paid for (be it software for your camera, or that stupid extra button on a mouse) doesn't work with linux out of the box. I happen to hate that little extra button on my mouse, but it works with windows (I use linux most of the time).
The point is, there is more likely to be a working driver for Linux for any given piece of hardware than a working driver for Vista.
This is even moreso the case if we are talking only about drivers that work "out of the box". A great deal of hardware does not work "out of the box" for Windows (any version).
This is very much true despite the fact that you have a button on your particular mouse that works with some unspecified version of Windows and which you claim doesn't work in some unspecificed version of Linux.
Member since:2006-05-29
Well, your experience is outdated. On my HP Laptop even those special buttons (volume up, down, mute, all fn combinations) worked out of the box. The same is true for both my Printers (ok, i chosed the second one HP because i knew they have better Linux support), my Mouse with all its funky and useless extra buttons (8 buttons if i found them all), my camera (was a pain to get working on Windows but worked out of the box on Linux) and my DVB-T stick.
The only thing that i suspect not to working (because i didn't find it in the hardware list) is my internal 56k Modem, but i have never even attempted using it because who needs an 56k analog Modem nowadays anyway.
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2007-07-10
"working" drivers being the key word. When people go out and buy their latest and greatest toys, they don't want just the bare minimum feature set, they want what they paid for - and many times, what they paid for (be it software for your camera, or that stupid extra button on a mouse) doesn't work with linux out of the box. I happen to hate that little extra button on my mouse, but it works with windows (I use linux most of the time).