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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 honest as to admit that linux dosent support older hardware all that well? I bet you cant :)
Win98 is simply better on older hardware. XP supports more hardware simply because windoze is the 800lb gorilla and the pc makers know it. Linux suffers from another thing as well: everybody is trying to do their own thing. If the sofware engineers cooperated and worked on a single distro under a single banner then linux would gain dominance in the desktop market.
Why would you need one? XP is already on those machines :)
Nice strawman. Are the soundcards & modems supported under your magic linux live cd? No.
Except that some people have found that Linux by default supports their hardware where Windows did not. Of course...
Thats insane. XP has the pc makers working directly with micr0$oft going for it. Linux is a thousand coders all thinking they will overcome the beast from redmond singlehandedly. You think you're all working on the same thing. You arnt. You're effort is dispersed among too many separate issues. Collectively under one banner and a real leader and direction; linux could kick some serious butt. Too many individualists to have that happen though. FYI HTH
Dyn0 Mu77 A large percentage of Linux drivers are developed by the manufacturers themselves and most of those...
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