Re: What Was Your Experience When You First Started Using Linux?
From: David (dwmoar_at_findmoore.net)
Date: 02/18/05
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:40:36 -0800
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>
> For slick, easy, multi-media Windows is the clear winner. If you run a
> network, are concerned about security, and need 24/7 uptime, then Linux
> is the king. For web surfing Linux is safer,
but Windows gives you a better experience
Please tell us how Windows does this??
-- at least until you pick up a virus or something.
> For a small to medium business Linux has the tools you need, much lower
> TOC, no worries about viruses and other Internet crap, and it's easy
> enough to set up that all you need is a mid-level geek handy.
>
>> So I start with Mandrake, but soon learn that the NVidia driver needed
>> for
>> my TV Out does not recognize the Mandrake Kernel (and I guess the source
>> files for the kernel are not included, so the Nvidia install couldn't do
>> whatever it needed to do to install).
>
>
>> snip your fun experience with drivers
>
>
> This is where the Linux afficionados whine about hardware manufacturers
> not supporting Linux. But why the hell should they
perhaps if they did more people might buy their hardware!!
It costs money to
> write drivers and Linux users expect everything for free. I mean they're
> perfectly willing to buy a boxed distro to get the manuals and support
> further development, but the code itself has to be open which means that
> practically speaking it's free (beer). So what motivation does the hw
> manufacturer have?
more money to be made selling their hardware to an expanding group of users.
There aren't *that* many people using Linux
Please provide where you get the stats you are stating
-- not
> compared to Windows yet anyway -- and they know that if there's enough
> interest in the community someone will volunteer their valuable time and
> talent to hack together a driver. If there isn't -- who cares?
>
> My personal experience with respect to drivers has been mixed. I also
> have recently installed FC3 dual with XP. XP was unable to locate a
> proper driver for my older scanner and my not-so-old Epson printer. FC3
> wouldn't even acknowledge the presence of my Conexant modem, (win modem by the way) there is a reason to provide drivers with their
hardware.
but it did
> fine with the scanner. At the end of the day I had to google to find
> windows drivers for the printer and scanner, but when I found them they
> worked perfectly. The Linuxant driver for my modem will only do 14K and
> no fax functions unless I pay them $15.
hmmm to cheap to pay for the driver, or it should of perhaps been provided
when you purchased the modem in the first place.
And while FC3 has a driver for
> my printer it's not nearly as nice as the printer control program for it
> on the windows side. I don't have the head alignment, head cleaning, or
> printer test page functions and it doesn't alert me to low ink levels.
> Not nearly as many options for page setup and so forth either.
>
>>
>> So here I am now, and my opinion of Linux is that it is very
>> cumbersome and
>> non-intuitive.
Yeah and like windows is the first time one uses it ?
>
>
> In some ways. In other ways it's just a matter of being different and
> unfamiliar to you.
>
>
>> Anyway, my ultimate question is:
>> I KNOW you all run into these kinds of problems quite often, so why do
>> you
>> stick with it? Does it get easier?
You could ask this about anything one does!
Is there something I don't know? I
>> just
>> don't see how anyone would want to use an OS that is such a pain to
>> install
>> stuff on and configure. I don't want to spend a day installing a piece of
>> software, I just want to run an installer and have it work... So
>> what's up
>> with this??? Please reply to the group and let me know if you felt
>> similarly
>> when you started with Linux, and why you stuck with it, and if it gets
>> easier, etc.
>>
>> Thanks to all for any replies/input!
>>
>>
>>
>
> I'll let you know in a year or so. I'm doing Linux full-immersion to
> give it all a good run.
>
> Rod
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