On 24-Jul-99 Jo wrote:
>
>> This is from Windows experience. I see no reason for Netscape to be
>> different in Linux. I'd know better if I could *connect* to the
>> Internet in Linux, but... modem manufacturers seem to think that
>> Winmodems are popular.
>
> They'll change their mind, when we stop buying them...
>
> Jo
The problem is, for the most part, it's not us buying them in the first place,
it's the computer manufacturuers. They buy winmodems to make their computers
cheaper while still making more money, and most of the end users don't even
realize it at the time they buy it. (Either that, or they don't care, because
they can't imagine using anything other than Windows anyway, until a year later
when they decide to try this new Linux thing for the fun of it but then WHOOPS
the modem doesn't work.)
My gf recently ordered a computer from Dell (which seems to be widely
considered to be the top computer maker now), and we discovered that ALL of
the modem options they offer for their Dimension computers are winmodems.
Buying a top of the line desktop computer from a top of the line manufacturer,
and you can't even get them to preinstall a real modem.
-Tom
(P.S. They told my gf, who plans to install Linux, that they would put the
cheapest winmodem option in the computer for her so she could then buy a real
modem from somewhere else and install it herself. Now there's great customer
service.)
