> > my
> > issue is that the OS is far more hassle. broken drivers that you can't do
> > anything about, installs that take hours,
>
> had no drivers for my radeon first, then had broken drivers that crashed 9 out of 10
>tries.
> took me days and weeks. had to download CVS, 360megs. only possible cuz I got DSL,
>lots of
> ppl in germany still have to use modem or ISDN.
yeah, there's a lot of drivers that are broken/nonexistent for
Linux/*BSD. however, I have hope that they might be fixed eventually; and I
can localize the specific problem much more easily; and I can participate in
the fixing of that problem.
I don't have anything like that for Windows.
> > that's why I often tell newbies to try and find their local Linux
> > Users Group (even if they're *BSD users). they can usually get good & quick help
>there.
> >
> Hard to find, man! And I like ppl in flesh and blood better than virtual
>communities... am
> a lil' old-fashioned ;)
my LUG meets once a month for big meetings, and has beer-n-burger
get-togethers once every couple of weeks. loads of fun. :)
you don't have to be in the area to use a LUGs mailiing list, tho. join
several mailing lists, and see which one you like the most.
www.linux.org has links to *lots* of them.
Carl Soderstrom.
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Network Engineer
Real-Time Enterprises
(952) 943-8700
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