Inevitably many of us will be faced (or guilt tripped) into fixing a PC that does not belong to us. Many of those include Windows PC's. It used to be that I would rip open a PC to see what was inside -- but it seems that now adays booting off a Ubuntu/etc livecd is a faster and more accurate way to figure out what hardware is inside a PC than even looking inside. I have a Dell with a video card that has no clear markings about its branding. Windows of course has no idea what it is except a "VIDEO CONTROLLER". Linux on the otherhand, boots right up and tells me its an ATI Radion X600.
Lovely. I suppose to some extent it is comparing a 3 month old distro and driver set to a 6 year old operating system.... not an entirely fair fight. That being said, I did install XP SP3.. which is fairly new, so its a closer battle. Someone should simply make a live CD that has a pretty UI with the hardware in a PC that boots in ~20 seconds. I would love it. Stan
