The insults to the gentleman are unappreciated. The idea in and of itself is a
good one though for technical reason very bad, you could have been more polite.
A Windows driver is written to support the way Windows (obviously) works, to
write a translator program would entail a horrible performance hit. Not to
mention another area were bugs could creep in. Native drivers are always the
best way to go.
Darryl
Geoff wrote:
> oh! oh! and a magic pony that will carry the devices to you! that way you
> wouldn't even have to leave your pathetically lonely dwelling!
>
> wowza!
>
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> > Why isn't there any sort of Windows-to-Linux driver translator? One could
> > eliminate 50% of Linux's problems (apparently)-unsupported devices!
> >
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