In article , tony sayer
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In article , David in
Normandy scribeth thus
In article , Doki
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"Vortex" wrote in message
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I had a dalliance with Linux a few years ago, and concluded that life's
too short.

Bang on. After having Ubuntu, which is supposed to work out of the box not
work out of the box on three systems, I decided there's no point messing
around with it. I've got enough things to do without spending time making a
PC work.



Ditto. I would really like to see open source take over
from Microsoft. Ubuntu installed fine on my computer. The
big problem was getting the internal modem to work with it.
In short it didn't and there didn't appear to be any
drivers to make it work. Wasted hours trying to sort it out
but gave up in the end.

Back to XP. I'm still avoiding hardware with Vista though.

But how much longer for there is new hardware that doesn't have anything
other than Vista drivers..

Some sort of collusion maybe?..

What a dreadful thought. Hardware that only runs with
Vista! I'm hoping that before too long all hardware vendors
supply drivers for all operating systems. But that may be
pie in the sky.

In my humble opinion there are two main reasons why the
likes of Ubuntu haven't yet made much impact on Microsoft's
monopoly:

1. Lack of plug and play for Ubuntu. People expect to
install an operating system and for it to work, full stop.
No hunting around the Internet for drivers to get all the
hardware components working, or spending hours on forums
trying to work out how to get the computer running
properly.

2. Lack of simple to understand graphical interfaces for
everything. People expect to open windows and click things
or select items from drop down menu's, not to open up
configuration files using some obscure text editor and edit
scripts written in "Martian".

Until both points are fully addressed, I fear Linux will
remain largely for the computer geeks.
--
David in Normandy