While traversing about the web this afternoon, I came across a rather funny subject title for a forum post. The person asked if any "normal" people use Linux, but went on to ask forgiveness for the lack of a better word than "normal." He wonders if anyone who isn't an open source, uber-geeky, stay-up-until-dawn-exploring-code fanatic actually uses Linux. Though the congregation here at OSNews is (obviously) comprised of very many of the aforementioned fanatics (in a sense; wear the title with pride), I also believe there to be many readers who are more or less "normal," for the lack of a better word, and plenty who may fall in between both spectrums of nerdiness.
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Oh, I'd have to disagree. I bought a new Toshiba laptop with OpenSolaris preinstalled and no windows. I have a copy of Vista Ultimate that I wasn't using, so I made a partition for it and installed it. There was no ethernet, no wireless, and no appropriate graphics drivers. I got on a different machine and downloaded all these drivers and the other Toshiba software from the Toshiba site, all the x64 stuff. Unfortunately, Toshiba did a half-assed job on their x64 drivers, especially the graphics driver, which kept crashing randomly. I had to reinstall Vista, this time as 32 bit, just so that I could get drivers that work, for Windows no less.
So I would disagree that Windows is ready to roll on a clean install.
It would be more accurate to say that it's ready if you get it OEM.
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2007-01-18
I would bet you are correct. Most people can't even install windows. Of course I really don't think it's that hard to install Linux anymore either. In some cases even easier (no hunting for hardware drivers).