"dave" wrote in message
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I don't fear Windows, I refuse to pay for an operating system,

Hard to get a laptop these days without Windows already included whether you
use it or not.
But hey if you also refuse to pay for the hardware, your problems are
solved! :-)


The Kernel has thousands of drivers already installed.

And more thousands not installed. Just as with Windows.


Please name a consumer device (other than Apple) that you would like to use
with Linux that had a driver issue. I have found Linux to be way more
plug-and-play than Windows,

Yes it is *IF* the hardware manufacturer bothers with Linux (still all too
rare) or the Linux developer types get around to writing them for free. You
may wait a long time (or forever) for stuff with a very small user base.

Trevor.