Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 05:06:21 09/17/02
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On September 16, 2002 at 18:50:38, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. My network card works fine. I didn't have to do anything to it. > - despite that i have latest distribution if i put in an audio cd it > doesn't play. in fact my > Do you mean directly? I can't remember if my distro does that. >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. > I recently installed Win XP and there seems to be ZERO support for MP3s in Win XP. I had to download another program to play them. I was a bit surprised, as I thought that that was MS's intention, but I hadn't realised that they had already done it. >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. > I installed Linux after installing Windows and it set up access to my Windows NTFS partition for me. I think it's read-only, but I've not tried it. But I didn't have to compile a kernel for it. >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. > As I said, SuSE like my network card and it works out of the box (I had to select dhcp for networking - I think I had to do this for windows too). >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. > You should get a proper distribution. I use SuSE, which comes with 7 CDs (the contents of which are also stored on one DVD). I tend to buy a new one every two/three years - not because I need to, but because I like to support them. The only things I download on a regular basis are security patches. >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. > I don't understand this. >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. > Some Linux distros are more supportive than others. >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. > My distro just suggested what sizes to use. To be precise, it noted that the first 40Gig of my disk was for Windows, so it asked me if I wanted to specifically decide what to do with the other 40 gig. I wasn't bothered, so it came up with a scheme for me. I just had to click "OK". >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. Linux is not compatible with more stuff. I expect that's because HW manufacturers tend to write drivers for Windows and not for other OSes. And *that* is because more people use Windows. Still, it's generally possible to find stuff that works. I'm a bit more careful these days before buying things for my PC. Andrew
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