--- On Sun, 11/29/09, Drsolly <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have used a lot of Red Hat (now Fedora) distros over the
> last 10 years, and I can't remember ever having to dick
> about with display drivers. This isn't like Windows. Things
> just work.
This is where I think a lot of "user experience may vary" language comes into
play. I've been loading linux/xnix (albeit intermittently as more time goes
by) for more than twenty years and since the inception of Graphic Interfaces
it's been a seemingly uninterrupted battle with display drivers (or proprietary
builds - i.e. SunOS/DGUX/AIX etc, which just work). Windows OS' have, on the
other hand, almost always loaded "cleanly", or at least the problems weren't
with trying to get a whitebread graphic card working.
Granted I have not been a real engineer for many years and I only periodically
mess about with loading operating systems on hosts, but each time I have felt
like throwing up my hands in frustration with MS and switching to linux I've
ended up spending way too much time trying to get the graphic interface
working. As far as setting a machine up as a server or network appliance xNix
has always kicked butt, but for desktop use for anything close to the average
schmuck I've been disappointed with linux to date. Maybe I've just been the
fringe case, but I've never felt at all comfortable recommending it to anyone
who isn't inherently a techie.
I've got ISOs burned of the latest Fedora and Ubuntu. I'll let you know how
that goes.
-thanks for the advice.
-chris
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