Around 02:44am on Friday, July 30, 2010 (UK time), David scrawled: > On 7/29/2010 5:00 PM, Steve Searle wrote: > > Around 09:54pm on Thursday, July 29, 2010 (UK time), James Mckenzie > > scrawled: > > > >> And the comment on "Linux on the Desktop". Not ready yet. We need it so > >> that users don't have to go through hoops to use what they need. All > >> distributions suffer from this, even the more friendly ones. > > > > I've seen Windows users struggle with drivers that won't work with their > > hardware plenty of times - and have even helped them out. But there are > > plenty of Windows users who are not able to get all their hardware > > working properly when they upgrade their OS. Yet (presumably) MS Windows > > is considered an "on the Desktop" system, whatever that means. > > > Microsoft does not supply drivers for hardware. The hardware makers > supply the drivers. Microsoft does supply some simple drivers with the > OS, as does Fedora, but those are also supplied by the hardware makers.
Who supplies them is not the point here. "Driver hell" happens on
Windows as well, yet that is considered a desktop system.
Steve
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