Carlos J. Muentes wrote:
The funny thing that nobody realizes is, most new hardware doesn't work with Windows at all without a manufacturer supplied driver! None of the hardware on my hp pavilion dv4000 laptop is recognized by Windows without HP drivers, so Linux isn't the only one that suffers from driver problems (in fact, Linux comes with all the drivers I need, namely SuSE 9.3 and Ubuntu 5.10). And if you call Microsoft for those drivers, they will laugh at you. So in reality, we have better driver support in the Linux community. As far as those stinkin manufacturers, those that *supply* those Windows drivers should be supplying the drivers for Linux as well.
So very true. I am not a fanatic. Windows has it strong points, but most windows users would be very empty handed without drivers from the peripheral manufacturers. This is also why it is so important for us to consciously choose linux friendly manufacturers. Let them know that this is the very reason you chose to by their product.
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