Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:50:38 09/16/02
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On September 16, 2002 at 05:08:42, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>On September 15, 2002 at 22:57:40, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>Once again your shooting yourself in the foot blaming Windows, or Windows based
>>drivers. The drivers for your motherboard are _exactly_ the same for Windows or
>>for Linux.
>
>Apparently not. In Linux everything works perfectly. In Windows it does
>not. It is as simple as that.
>
>--
>GCP
I'm always amazed by seeing linux freaks post that their free
non-helpdesked OS is so good and supporting everything.
If i boot linux my problem is
- my network card isn't supported by default, in windows it is
a network card that's produced by the millions world wide. a
$10 network card. it works perfect in windows.
- despite that i have latest distribution if i put in an audio cd it
doesn't play. in fact my
Of course as a real nerd i know how to get my soundblaster live to
work. But then the problem is that all my MP3s are at NTFS disks.
By default no kernel supports NTFS. Only a recompile of it helps then
and i'm real sick of that, so right now that means no music.
Then after it is installed, it doesn't easily work for my network.
Only a few linux idiots might know how to get a network to work under
linux, i sure do not and i do not have time to read 4 gigabyte of
documents. I need to click on 'my network, add computer' to get it
to work, if i need to type all kind of hocus pocus commands, then
i am too confused to bring it to a good end.
The result is that i never managed to get my linux computer working in
a network. If i want to transfer files i go reboot to windows where it
does work.
there is however a common problem i have in both windows and linux.
If i install some software (and i regurarly do that), such as things
as msn under windows, or compilers under linux.
In that case if i do not like what happened, the only solution to my
problem is to reinstall the entire OS.
chat managers have the bad habit to install itself in the kernel in
windows. I am very sick of it. I install a chat manager very regurarly.
Both oses suck ass here. Only hocus pocus commands work in linux, and i'm
no magician, and in windows reinstalling the entire OS is faster anyway
than trying to figure out what happened and in the end it is the only thing
to do anyway.
What i dislike most is that linux is needing things like / and /swap and
such to work. I would prefer installing it at a directory in my NTFS
harddisks.
That is direct criticism to m$, it's NTFS protocol is not open i heard
from a linux freak. If it was, then i could install both without having
to fight either.
Right now i lose loads of diskspace because i need both of them and you
reserve for both oses a lot of diskspace of course in order to be sure
you don't run out.
Nevertheless, it is a joke to say that linux is more compatible, and about
that matrox videocard i have some strong opinions as well, from software
design viewpoint. It's a very stupid videocard.
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