Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Oct 2005 06:01 UTC, submitted by Truthseeker
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Or you could stop buying hardware that is windows only. Winmodems are crappy resource hogs anyway. The next time you buy hardware do some research about it's linux drivers. The big distro's have hardware compatibility lists. A quick search on linux.google.com gives you an indication of it's popularity. There is a remarkable correlation between crappy hardware and linux compatibility. Kernel hackers do not find it worthwile to develop drivers for crappy hardware apparantly. Some hardware to avoid: anything with a conexant IC in it, Lexmark printer (the horror.. the horror), USB ADSL modems (with a few exceptions), ATI graphics cards.
If you have the right hardware linux is a breeze.





Member since:
"I won't be downloading Ubuntu, or any other linux build any more... those were hundreds of hours I spent at the computer that I'll never get back"
You really don't have to. If Windows works well for you, why change? If it's not broken, don't fix it.