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Re: Win only hardware sometimes has better Linux support

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____/ Marti van Lin on Monday 31 August 2009 13:00 : \____

> This is funny. My brother GL1MST yesterday gave me a Logitech Cordless
> Desktop Precision set. A cordless multimedia keyboard and optical mouse.
> 
> It included a driver CD containing Windows and MacOS X drivers only.
> 
> I shut down Pleunix (my good old Dell Optiplex GX240, running Fedora 10
> (Cambridge)) and expected failures.
> 
> No Linux drivers, so this should go wrong.
> 
> Indeed there was something wrong, I was!
> 
> Both the Keyboard and optical mouse worked right out of the box, without
> installing any "driver software".
> 
> - Linux has shitty hardware support
> - Linux is not ready for the desktop
> - Linux is too complicated for the average user
> - Linux is doomed
> 
> LOL :-)

A Microsoft fan who lurks in IRC has just installed the latest KDE and he is
pleased with it. Mind you, he tried Vista 7 many times before. I guess he
realised that exploring other routes was the wiser choice.

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