'Ubuntu takes on XP in the gadget arena'

[Jan Claeys]

Op do, 16-02-2006 te 17:52 -0600, schreef Randy Gloden:
> By the way, I would love to throw constant examples of BSODS at my 
> fellow co-workers with whom we often have friendly jousting over our OS 
> prefrences.  Unfortunately, there are no examples to throw. 

I can pretty reliably crash several WinXP SP2 systems by pluging in a
couple of USB cameras if I don't install the drivers *and*[1] the
software that came with those camera's before...

OTOH, those cameras simply work out-of-the-box on Ubuntu.   :-)

So, hardware support on Windows isn't always better than on linux, not
even for consumer products.  (Of course I also can tell stories about
hardware that doesn't work on linux, but at least it doesn't "BSOD" when
I plug in a standard USB storage device.)


[1] Yes, installing only the drivers doesn't help, it really needs a
50(!) MiB "download program" before it doesn't BSOD.

-- 
Jan Claeys