Some items jumped out at me Claim: Printers/Scanners Windows7 Many - Linux Few - Fact: Printers/Scanners Windows7 Few - Linux Many
Being a former Windows user (loved Win2K, XP was good, Vista, yecch), I downloaded Wind7 RC and tried it out. Surprise! There is no support for my H-P IICx scanner. Or even the Adaptec PCI scsi card that feeds it! Nor is there any planned. That scanner is perfectly adequate for my needs and, like all H-P hardware of its generation, it's built like a tank and will likely outlive Bill Gates. Why should I buy a new one so I can run Win7? Contrary to Microsoft's BS, their Windows team is obviously removing support for most legacy hardware. Probably to make hardware vendors happy. Having run Ubuntu Linux for almost three years now, I find support for legacy hardware is superb. Never one problem with the system recognizing it, even on installation. Windows should be so blessed! Claim: Software Compatibility Windows7 Many - Linux Few - Fact: Software Compatibility Windows7 Few - Linux Many Same problem in a different sphere. Nearly every app I replied upon in Win2K and XP won't run or won't run well in the GEE-WHIZ LOOKIT THAT! world of Windows 7. So I'll be forced to lay out a grand or two for a basic suite of office, graphics, media and systems tools. While every need they service is met FOR FREE in the Linux world. What do I get with Windows7? A resource-hungry pinball machine of an interface that is no longer even intuitive. Nearly every change Microsoft made was solely for change itself, not to create a more user-efficient system environment. I won't even get into the bootheel-intrusive Microsoft anti-piracy model or its fat unwieldy yet still vulnerable security paradigm. I don't think Linux fans will have to "DO" anything to refute this MS BS PR push as the article suggests. Microsoft may have finally delivered one product that can really lure the average PC notebook and netbook user into a switch. To Linux. There is a reason Microsoft is waging that expensive disinformation campaign. It isn't because Windows 7 can stand on its own toe to toe with Linux without lies. Word Wizard On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 08:44 -0700, David Kaplan wrote: > Here's the latest Blog of Helios. > http://www.linuxlock.blogspot.com/ > > Ken points out that Best Buy, Office Depot and others are lying to people > about Linux so they only think to buy Windows 7. > Dave > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
