Giving up on Linux...

[Jos Vos]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:52:16PM +0200, xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:

> I use Linux at work... I am a kernel hacker at work.  That is my job.  Redhat 
> 9 works for me at work because the motherboard is not completely state of the 
> art.

Right, and state of the art MB's, notebooks etc. indeed do not always
(completely) work.  So, unfortunately, we as Linux users have to be
very careful when buying such hardware.  *Always* do some research
*before* buying HW.

Agreed: this shouldn't be needed, this is a bad thing.  But what is the
real reason?  That is that some vendors don't care and/or have hidden
contracts with M$ and/or are blackmailed by M$ or whoever.  This is the
sad world we have to live in, but things are still improving, IMHO,
so go complain to the HW manufacturers, tell them to support Linux,
do *never* pay for a Windows license if you don't use it (i.e. ask
that money back, which they have to do because of the M$ EULA), etc.

> However, even with all of M$ garbage, the bottom line is that their garbage 
> works on my system and Linux does not.

Yes, and this is *not* because M$ is good and Linux is bad, but because
those manufacturers have "close cooperations" with M$ and don't care
(or are not allowed to care!!!) about Linux.

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