On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 21:49 -0500, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: > Wow, sounds like you had a rough time of it Jack. I have been there done that > - my MBR got wiped out on several occasions when I had a dual boot system. > The one thing I did that solved that was to completely wipe out the Windows > partition and go strictly Linux. Haven't had that problem since! ;-)
While I really like Linux, it's not ready for "primetime" on my system yet. Perhaps a power-user like you can make it recognize my Canon D760 printer/copier but I can't, especially when there is no driver *anywhere* for it. Also, as you may have noticed in the KDETV thread, I can't get my video capture Nvidia to work with it. (And I will not install the separate Nvidia drivers for it. I've done a lot of reading and there are a lot of horror stories out there.) Plus, there are a couple of games that won't run under Wine that I like. Linux has the same problem as OS/2 did years ago. I loved OS/2 (and still consider it better than Windows) but I gave it up because the mainstream wasn't writing for it. Perhaps in a couple of years, Linux will become so popular that *every* printer and graphics card manufacturer will write drivers which you won't need a college degree to install. But till then... (Incidentally, Mozilla Firefox has shown how things could be in Linux. It installs as easily in Linux (regardless of version) as it does in Windows.) - Jack
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