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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