Hi Hermann, > Not only regarding to music. This is a concern for pretty much every > more hardware related thing. Printers, scanners, screen colour correction, > interfacing to video cameras,.... endless list > > Commercial interest causes things to become smooth for Windows and MacOS.
That hasn't been my experience with Windows 7 at a neighbours' house. Installed scanners disappear on reboot, the printer driver resets itself to US Letter paper instead of A4, and the wireless network always drops the connection after a minute or two. I think it's really a difference of perception. In the case of the wireless connection problems, Microsoft's response is that you should upgrade your router firmware - for a (probably GNU/Linux) router that works fine with XP and all other OS's. So they take a bug in Windows 7 and redefine it as a router bug - your problem, not theirs. They have the commercial muscle to force all third party suppliers to bend to their will, and provide work arounds for the bugs in their product. I doubt it's much different for third party suppliers in the MacOS market - do things Apple's way, or not at all. No GNU/Linux distribution has that amount of influence in the desktop or laptop market. Some have a certain amount of influence in the server or embedded markets, but it's much more like a level playing field between all the parties. So if things get fixed, it's more likely to be because of a consensus, rather than coercion. Cheers! Daniel _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
