[PD] [OT] firealarm!

[Andre Schmidt]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 00:22 +0200, João Miguel Pais wrote:
> windows might be not "pure" in body and spirit, but it works, and
> you  
> don't have to loose as much time setting it up as with unix systems 

hmm,

i didnt want to answer on this, so i appologize forehand !
(please stop reading if youre affraid of "flamewar", lol)

but so many people just dont think far enough...

why does ms-windows just work ?

why do hardware manufacturers do only ms-windows "compatible" hardware ?

closed source, so what! but why only windows drivers ?

do you really think "linux" is to blame that some "designed for
microsoft" hardware doesnt work under "linux" ?! O.o

btw. do the "mac-people" now start to whine too why "designed for
microsoft" hardware doesnt work in their intel "linux"/unix, eg. osx ?

if you know howto install ms-windows, and you know that your hardware
works under linux, i cant see ANY reason why you would have problems
installing linux, like ubuntu.

mein gott...
-andre

FYI: 
on my desktop (k7s5a, duron1.2, geforce6200, miro pctv, terraTV) and
dell latitude c800, ubuntu "just worked", and even installed faster than
ms-windows, LOL? (with all drivers and essential software, of
course!)... ah, and even my printer/scanner hp psc1215 worked
"out-of-the-box" under ubuntu...