Well, as long as this has morphed into a Linux discussion, here we go. 1) On the bad news side, the most annoying thing is the lack of hardware drivers for various gear, and the need to therefore work around some of those issues. On this lappie, there isn't a straight wireless radio driver, so I'm reading through several threads on how to fix that - time that I'd rather spend doing something else. There isn't a native driver for my mouse, so one of the things I'm used to being able to do with it (and I just do by instinct) causes something entirely different to happen instead. A couple of printer brands don't work. For as much help as most of the forums are, there is a lot of time to be invested and unfortunately some dead ends that are there. Some applications don't run on it, even virtualized, apparently.
2) On the good news side, this machine is a POC. It really is. It's using a chipset and motherboard that's 4 years old (even though the machine was new last year). When I have to get into Vista, I yearn to return to Linux. It is SO DAMN FAST by comparison. Holy crap is it fast. It is hard to believe ow slow Vista (and even XP are) compared to Linux. It's unbelievable. There are also nifty things built in (that run fast) that I don't ever remember seeing in Windoze. So, I'm hoping that we can get everything resolved, because I know that I have to replace my old lappie shortly. Thankfully I've been so busy the last few days doing things that I can easily do in Linux that I haven't had to think about it. Hopefully it will stay that way. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
