Submission + - Linux, the adventure with benefits. (techideas.co.uk)
Ajehals writes: "A not so brief response to Andrew Brown's article "Linux is still an adventure game, but now it's really worth playing" in the The Guardian, Thursday 19 March 2009:
"If you had compared the nightmare that is installing a boxed version of windows onto a machine and having everything work I would have applauded. It is a process I have gone through a few times (usually when someone turns up at my door with a computer so riddled with malware and adware that their own attempted reinstall and system restore failed to do anything terribly useful).
The week spent finding driver downloads for various internal hardware, motherboard, audio chipsets, graphics card, sound card and other device drivers is never much fun, indeed windows often makes this a little easier by pretending to have everything working until you realise that performance is abysmal, or something (that firewire port to hook up a camera..?) doesn't work later on down the line. This point may even require that you have a second computer handy (RAID card not supported on boot, network card not recognised? downloading them is rather hard when your machine has no network access or fails to boot at all...).""
"If you had compared the nightmare that is installing a boxed version of windows onto a machine and having everything work I would have applauded. It is a process I have gone through a few times (usually when someone turns up at my door with a computer so riddled with malware and adware that their own attempted reinstall and system restore failed to do anything terribly useful).
The week spent finding driver downloads for various internal hardware, motherboard, audio chipsets, graphics card, sound card and other device drivers is never much fun, indeed windows often makes this a little easier by pretending to have everything working until you realise that performance is abysmal, or something (that firewire port to hook up a camera..?) doesn't work later on down the line. This point may even require that you have a second computer handy (RAID card not supported on boot, network card not recognised? downloading them is rather hard when your machine has no network access or fails to boot at all...).""