Darren New escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Linux works just fine as long as you do not depend on Microsoft 
>> technologies, 
> 
> More correctly, it works just fine if it supports all your hardware and 
> none of the programs you want to use were written by companies or people 
> who depended on Microsoft technologies.  (E.g., if you want to play a 
> game and the game author depended on DirectX, you're pretty much SOL.)
> 

True.  And here's the secret about getting your compatible hardware 
without much ado:
http://www.linux-drivers.org/

Check before you buy new hardware or if you plan to install Linux on 
your current hardware.  Most core stuff work out of the box, but 
new-fangled peripherals are quite often difficult to support because 
they target Windows and the Linux drivers may have to do some reverse 
engineering to support it.  If it is hardware compatible with a 
well-known standard, like USB, it's very much well supported.  Little 
known hardware specific for Windows will most likely never be supported...

If you want games, Unix is not for you, unless it is nethack or conway's 
game of life. ;)

Povray works fine on Linux, though. :)

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