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You have to admit that, from a hardware support point of view, Linux still sucks.
Doctor V:
Nope, no, today I am very frusterated and all because of M$. I tried to put windows 2000 onto a fairly new computer at work. Gonna make the thing a dual boot. I put win2K on there but it wouldn't detect the network card, and the video was all fucked up, and couldn't be adjusted. I looked but couldn't find the CD that came with the machine. But I knew it came with XP pro, so I decided to just go ahead and put that on. But it didn't fucking work. Would not detect the network card. Piece of shit. I tried putting redhat on it, worked like a charm.
The moral of the story.
Windows's superior hardware support is an absolute myth!
If you compare windows preinstalls to Linux non-preinstalls...duhhhhhh of course then windows will win out. But if you take a normal install CD of Windows -any version, and one of Linux, LINUX will win.
So I admit, from a hardware support point of view, Windows still sucks!
V
spencerpi:
You're right, Windows sucks hardware wise because the one pc you tried it on didn't work.
That makes sense indeed. :rolleyes:
xyle_one:
quote:Originally posted by M505:
You're right, Windows sucks hardware wise because the one pc you tried it on didn't work.
That makes sense indeed. :rolleyes:
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YES. i installed windows 2000 on a machine here at work. i had to manually install alot of drivers just to get it going. it couldn't detect the network card. annoying. redhat8, and 9, did detect everything, and everything works fine. yes, redhat8 & 9 are newer than 2000. so that argument is stupid. windows xp picked up all the hardware in my machine. windows 2000 is three years old. and if you are dealing with "new" hardware, then you are going to have issues. i'm all for talking shit about windows, but at least use your head. the driver database in 2000 is old. the driver database in xp is new. xp will detect & install more current hardware than 2000. the same with redhat9.
Doctor V:
XP didn't detect, Red Hat did. I think Red Hat has better hardware support than XP. XP is the newest windows, and the machine had a -made for windows XP- sticker on it. People always say windows has better hardware support than Linux. I disagree, in my experience windows only has good hardware support if its preinstalled. So if you want, we can go ahead and compare windows preinstalls to Linux preinstalls. Linux supports all the new hardware except winmodems, which are modems where software is used to replace hardware components.
At least read posts before trying to tear them down. XP didn't woirk either. And go ahead and tell me what conditions we should use for comapring hardware support then. Are we only supposed to use a Linux that was released before XP was for campairison? That wouldn't be a level playing field now would it. Linux has better hardware support because newer versions are being released much more quickly that windows versions are.
M505, go to windows BBS you troll.
xyle_one:
quote:Originally posted by Doctor V:
XP didn't detect, Red Hat did. I think Red Hat has better hardware support than XP. XP is the newest windows, and the machine had a -made for windows XP- sticker on it. People always say windows has better hardware support than Linux. I disagree, in my experience windows only has good hardware support if its preinstalled. So if you want, we can go ahead and compare windows preinstalls to Linux preinstalls. Linux supports all the new hardware except winmodems, which are modems where software is used to replace hardware components.
At least read posts before trying to tear them down. XP didn't woirk either. And go ahead and tell me what conditions we should use for comapring hardware support then. Are we only supposed to use a Linux that was released before XP was for campairison? That wouldn't be a level playing field now would it. Linux has better hardware support because newer versions are being released much more quickly that windows versions are.
M505, go to windows BBS you troll.
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nice. then windows does suck compared to linux. it is easy to talk shit about a 3 year old os (win2k) against new distros. it is a relief to hear that xp doesnt stack up to linux in the hardware department. i was getting worried ;)
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