On Wednesday 09 August 2006 12:59 am, Clayton wrote: > > > 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All I can say is WOW... That was great... Can I use part of that in a sig? ;) Joe
