From: Rick Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> more pronounced way. Obviously these vendors, such as Diamond and
others,
> that refuse to write drivers for *nix must know something that we
don't.
And what, do you think, would that be? I can tell you one thing
that we all know: there are more Windows users than there are Linux
users (duh!). So, where will Diamond's efforts most efficiently be
invested? In Windows development, so that a given amount of effort will
have the greatest return. They may or may not be right, but I expect
that's their motivation. In any case, I'd be willing to bet that it has
nothing to do with the capabilities of the OS.
> it is. So, forget all these .config files we seem to have to manually
edit
> with wonderful devices such as VI. [BLEAH!!]
You know, there _are_ more intuitive editors out there--lots of
them, in fact. I like pico, but kedit is pretty good as well. Of
course, there aren't that many cases any more where you _have_ to
manually edit the .conf files, as software like linuxconf and others
tend to work as well. Also, I guess this means you've never had to hack
the Windows registry?
> When you can make a version of
> this Linux, whether it be Red Hat or Mandrake, that's better at plug
'n play
> than Windows, maybe more of us will start using it on a more
pronounced
> basis.
"So, quitcherbeleakin" yourself. Linux is getting much better at
PnP, though it admittedly isn't to the level of Windows yet. Windows
isn't anywhere near the level of the Mac, either, so why are you holding
Windows out as the holy grail of PnP?
