> Now assume that business requires that you need to install something new on
> that. It is a PITA, too much effort & time.
assume you want to install a new thing on w98?
I don't hope for you to have ave to install XP on an old
laptop...
finding XP drivers for old hardware is a nightmare, when
SUSE installs most of the HW silently
You know... it's funny how people are. SUSE installs off the DVD and
IDs and installs the drivers for 99% of the hardware they have.. and
fails on one thing. For that one thing they need to go out on to the
internet and find/download the driver (usually there is one... like
the nVidia driver for example) or come to the list here for a little
assistnace. They encounter this and get all hot and bothered.
Yet...
Yet if they go and install the latest version of XP (with SP2
slipstreamed in even) they still have to go out and download/install..
the video driver - the default XP video driver is unusable. They have
to download/find/install the motherboard drivers to get the network
and sound working (assuming they are using the onboard NIC and AC/97
sound) - and they are SOL if they don't have the CD/DVD that came with
the motherboard because they will not be able to get the network up
and running using the stuff that is on the XP master disk. If they
are unlucky and have an older version of XP (pre SP2), their USB
devices won't work right until they install a sep USB driver. They
will often need to install sep drivers for the modem.. the scanner,
the printer (and god help them if they have the HP AllInOne
printer/scanner/fax thing... and try to get that working "out of the
box" in XP). Bluetooth? Ha ha ha... yah right... good luck getting
that to work on XP without having to do anything.
The list goes on and on.... and apparently it's OK to have to do this
with Windows, yet when one thing poses a little obstacle in Linux - if
the modem doesn't work "out of the box" because you have to
buy/downlaod/install a binary driver... or the video doesn't work in
full 3D mode because you have to download and install a sep binary
driver, the world comes to an end, they drop Linux like it was
poisoned... and go back to Windows all while grumping that Linux is
crap.
Well, they are fooling themselves. Let them rant because they are
happy being blinded by their own misconceptions.
C.
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