On Tuesday 21 February 2006 15:20, jdd wrote: > Daniel Bauer wrote: > > I don't agree. In my opinion people is *not* not switching to Linux > > because they *know* that this or that piece of hardware will not > > work, > > sorry, but I have to keep a MS computer on my desk for some > hardware reason. Hardware is much more various thant > software and legal problem may prevent us from making > drivers, easy or not :-(
And for this exact reason, I no longer have a WinXP computer. I had a dual boot system for quite a while to do a couple of things not found in linux. For Christmas, I got a new Video card Radeon X700 AGP FWIW. I tried to install it and windows says I've got new hardware. Great. I'd removed all traces of the old versions. After the install, WinXP locked up on reboot. Nothing I could do would fix it. So I did a re-install, and picked up a driver or two that might be necessary. Same thing. Locks up. Linux on the other hand worked right away. Installed the newer driver from ATI, ran their installer, and with the exception of the mouse wheel not working everything worked. Took about two minutes to make up my mind. The XP drive is gone. I found other way to do what I needed. I just hadn't looked hard enough.. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 For Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 4:45pm up 1 day 21:41, 3 users, load average: 1.14, 1.22, 1.23 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
