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Comment Re:Ubuntu not ready! (Score 1) 757

There's a 4th category: People who are happy to install drivers, but expect them to work.

I've recently been trying to get a Broadcom NIC working on a Red Hat 5 installation. It didn't work out of the box - fine, I'm happy with that. Windows didn't recognise it either. But when I got the Windows driver on that system, it "just worked." After downloading and compiling about 4 different versions of the Linux driver, all of which claimed to support my kernel version, the only one that actually gave me an eth0 in my ifconfig listing would hard lock the system as soon as I tried to ping anything on my LAN.

Linux is not ready for prime time.

Comment Re:Why OSX isn't ready for the desktop. (Score 1) 1365

With linux, you whip up a little script that runs jhead -autorot and convert -resize.

No, you whip up a little script. The kinds of user casual desktop user targeted by Vista and OSX does not. Perhaps if there were lots of little good quality easy to find/install/use apps for Linux, it would take off more. Like the iPhone app store, but repo based and free. Want a program to rotate all your images? There's an app for that. And you don't need to touch the command line to do it.

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