Re: Yet another OS

Mercury wrote:

I blame the OS when it *needs* configuration for something I expect it to
do out of the box.

Windows /will/ /not/ configure your video card correctly by default "out of
the box". It will almost certainly require a separate driver disk, or at
least require your intervention to choose one of the default drivers (which
are abysmal).

Similarly, Windows will require your intervention for /most/ of your
hardware, and often gets its' hardware discovery wildly wrong. Hardware
discovery on a modern Linux distro is, by comparison, faultless.

Any subsequent hardware changes to your system usually wreck a Windows
install, requiring re-installation and re-registration. They'll only let
you re-register a couple of times...

C.
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