OT: hardware problems

[John]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 13 May 2007, John wrote:
>   
>>   Well I can say for sure now, using linux (or at least FC) has left a
>> really bad taste in my mouth... I'd rather go back to Windows 100% and
>> deal with its security problems than have to *waste *my time
>> troubleshooting my FC builds. Two outta three FC boxes (here) have
>> 'misplaced' the floppy and cd drives. I know the cd drive was working
>> when I switched over to KDE from Gnome; now its MIA with KDE too. This
>> box, can't even find my scanner-- jeez, I can go to the HP site and get
>> the scanner software for Win95 to Vista.
>>   How screwed up is Fedora 7 going to be??
>>
>>
>>     
> While 'linux is linux', distros do vary quite a bit, and some distros are 
> better than others with particular hardware.  Before giving up, try out some 
> live CDs if you can get hold of them - many are available for download.  In 
> particular, I'd think that either ubuntu or mandriva may suit you better than 
> fedora.  Hope that helps
>
> Anne
>   
  He he he; one of the perks of having broadband- most of the distros 
are already sitting here on cd. :-) 
  Thanks for your help in the past btw.

           John
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