Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> At 09:12 AM 03/21/2000 -0800, Tom Berkley wrote:
> >Sean
> >
> >I cannot relate at all to what you are talking about. After 1 year
> >playing with linux and using five different distros, I use Mandrake 7.0
> >(GL edition) on both my laptop and my dual celeron smp box with only one
> >problem that I had to work around. Mandrake 7.0 is a stud muffin linux
> >and if you cannot get it to work, then you probably did not pay any
> >attention to the hardware compatibility issues. Learn more and quit
> >venting your frustrations here. There is a LOT of documentation and you
> >have a lot of reading ahead of you.
>
> Tom. see my response on this. I am sorry, your attitude is a major reason
> linux has never had a major amount of commercial market share (and as long
> as the linux vendors have this same attitude, commercial users will stay
> away in droves). I'm not trying to flame anyone here, but if my Foobar
> CDROM worked in rev 6.1, there is no excuse for it suddenly not working in
> Rev 7.0 (unless it is something that was explicitly deprecated). This kind
> of nonsense happens all the time in the linux world (and is the major
> reason the ISP I work with switched from linux to freebsd 2 years ago).
I couldn't agree more, for Linux to be accepted by the general public as a
realistic alternative, it must install and work in most cases WITHOUT one
needing to read the fine documentation. If "you have a lot of reading ahead of
you" then Mr average computer user will simply use the (inferior) oposition
offering despite it costing more and offering less, SIMPLY BECAUSE IT WORKS!
(or is seen to, 'cause the install works!) My CDrw has a firmware bug, and
wont work under Linux (until I upgrade cdrecord) but it does work under
Windows 95, so is the "fault" the CDrw, or Linux - most non-computer-oriented
people (the MAJORITY of computer users) will say that if it works under
Windows and not Linux, it must be Linux that's broken.
