Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 11th Jul 2008 22:30 UTC, submitted by pas de calais
"Recently a blog post entitled 'Why Desktop Linux is its own worst enemy' has come across my feed-radar a few times. It's yet another in the long line of 'Linux ain't ready yet' jeremiads and it doesn't really say anything new yet it got on my nerves. Why?" Ryan Cartwright at Freesoftware Magazine is on fine form with this wonderfully splenetic broadside. Read the full tirade at FSM.
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RE: The true problem with all that linux distros
by leech on Sat 12th Jul 2008 22:11
in reply to "The true problem with all that linux distros"
Member since:2006-01-10
Uhm, why would you want to bring a closed source "win32" driver over to Linux? That's part of the instability most of the time with Windows in the first place, not to mention that Win32 drivers would only ever work with a 32 bit OS. Or the fact that Linux supports a whole lot more architectures than Windows does.
The only thing I've ever seen that works the way you are suggesting is the ndiswrappers for wireless cards, and from everything I've read about that, it stinks and rarely works 100%
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2006-12-30
The true problem is that no Linux-distro is a true hybrid between win32 and linux. Say you don't have the linux driver for a specifik thing? take the win32 and install it in filemanager .
It can be done since both wine and reactos are opensource.
The hate for windows along linux developers makes linux fade away , no wonder windows 7 will include crappy unix/linux support that works worse then existing linux systems ,but some linux users will switch to that anyway bacause of hardware reasons. Linux users must absolutely reinvent the wheel everytime a driver needs to see the light of day .Despite that in the long run its much less work to bring win32 drivers to the linux platform if they just think outside the box.
Edited 2008-07-12 19:52 UTC