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Story: Windows 98 lifeline 'prompted by Linux threat'

Posted by: Rocco Barocco (Monday 19 January 2004, 4:44 PM)

To the offensive trollcatcher:

True, Mandrake is a bit less pain in the neck to install than XP, but unlike with XP in Mandrake:
-my printer prints horrible, washed out looking pages
-my 24bit/96kHz soundcard works as a 16 bit soundblaster clone (when I can get it to work through the command line)
-XMMS freezes and engraves itself upon the desktop
-I have to start Xserver MANUALLY after each boot
-I cannot connect to the internet because AOL doesn't support Linux (and if you would like to try to dismiss my intelligence as inferior for using AOL, step VERY carefully, things are not always as they seem)
-3D acceleration for my graphics card (earlier NVidia) isn't supported

So to sum it up: Net doesn't work, 3d doesn't work, sound is not what I paid for and printing results are unusable.

Oh, and I tried Debian and several other distros too. Debian runs once to run never again. Is that a feature or a bug.

Now I would really, really like to have an alternative to M$, but until Linux proves itself to be IT, hide your religious convictions under a rock, because you do more damage than good to the cause.

p.s.: I don't have to mount absolutely anything in XP to use my digital camera. Just plug it in.