XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.windows7.general   
   From: death@rottingcorpses.x-x   
      
   Alias wrote:   
      
   > Leythos wrote:   
   >> In article, ml2mst@gmail.com says...   
   >>> The other thing we know, is that devices (older that approx half a year)   
   >>> are usually supported out of the box by GNU/Linux. No (missing) driver   
   >>> disks required.   
   >>>   
   >>> Anyway, like I wrote before, I'm not interested in Evangelism and   
   >>> advocacy or another pointless pissing contest.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> I wasn't wanting to get into that crap either - I've been working with   
   >> Fedora for a decade (at least it seems that long) and AIX before that,   
   >> and Ubuntu and a couple others. Having an I.T. business means I'm   
   >> exposed to a LOT of systems and hardware, more than a typical home user,   
   >> and I've found that Linux, in general, has far less support for devices   
   >> than does Windows. I'm not talking about a nix driver that gives the   
   >> basics and that's all, I'm talking about full featured drivers like we   
   >> see in windows.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Ubuntu has the HP Toobox in  the Software Center (a place you've   
   > obviously never been) and it provides everything the CD for Windows   
   > provides.   
   >   
   > It's interesting how this Win troll will constantly say it's HP's,   
   > Canon's, etc. fault when they don't provide drivers for Windows but it's   
   > Linux' fault when they don't provide drivers for Linux.   
   >   
      
   Nobody makes drivers for Linux.   
   They just sometimes by sheer coincidence work.   
      
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