An Open Letter To The Linux Enthusiasts. 4176
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:06:51 -0600,
hell yes!
tried installing XP on a SPARC box lately? or perhaps a Mac G5? perhaps you've installed XP on an S-390 lately?
Oh, you wanted to limit the discussion to only PC grade hardware?
XP doesn't support a lot of PC hardware also, older scanners running from the SCSI card, off brand equipment from a few years ago, that still works well, and does it's job is often not supported by XP.
Sure, if you want to limit the discussion even further, to relatively new stuff, from the larger manufacturers, then you can probably say that XP supports more hardware. You just have to ignore all the hardware that XP doesn't support.
I can take a liveCD (I recommend Knoppix, or PCLinuxOS) into most any computer store, and boot the x86 boxes and see what's what, I can't do that with XP, there's no LiveCD version of XP I can get. BartPE has really crappy hardware support, and of course, it can't be distributed due to the XP licence, I could live with that, *if* I could be sure the CD supported a good cross section of hardware, but it doesn't.
Duh. Thanks for throwing up that Strawman for us all to appreciate... Ah, so you admit that you use old hardware. Now, will you be so...
Dyn0 Mu77 A large percentage of Linux drivers are developed by the manufacturers themselves and most of those make...
try opening your horizons, XP supports a very limited subset of computer hardware.
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Except that some people have found that Linux by default supports their hardware where Windows did not. Of course the manufacturer might well have a driver to support that particular item, but...
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