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On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:19:07 +0100, clipka wrote:
> I can give (and actually did give, as you may recall ) an example of
> where Linux does /not/ "just work":
Oh, sure, I never said that one couldn't come up with a configuration
that didn't "just work" - and I would never make that claim. But there
*are* people who make that claim about Windows, and that's a completely
false claim.
It isn't about having administration experience, either - I was talking
purely about the installation, which doesn't require any admin experience
for either OS platform. I was merely talking about hardware a detection
comparison on identical hardware and the challenges I had in getting Win7
to work on hardware that openSUSE 11.2 installed, configured, and found
all hardware properly for.
I agree, though, that ultimately the idea that any OS "just works" out of
the box is a myth as long as the software vendor has no control over all
the hardware (which MacOS may have as an advantage - not all hardware,
but certainly the hardware categories that Windows and Linux have issues
with.
Jim
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