| Yet another way for the naysayers to move forward rather than being
| stuck in the reactionary past.  While I agree completely that Linux
| desktop isn't as slick as it could be, it's far from being unusable.  If
| these folks would put as much effort in making it work for them as they
| do whining and calling names, they'd be so much ahead of the ball
| instead of behind it that it wouldn't be funny.  Jeez, Louise, just deal
| with it and move forward.
+-[JG=>MP]
 
When I first installed the latest Debian, it actually was slick enough.
Part of the problem I have had is that some things seem to "disappear" the
first time I allow a kernal patch/upgrade to be installed.  Like some of
the modules disappear.  For example, on my laptop, I had it set up to use
the Windows drivers (via ndiswrapper (sp?)) for a wireless card.  That
worked fine until I installed the kernel upgrade.
 
It is easy enough to fix, I just haven't yet.
 
The other problems are mostly with folks who program their websites to only
work with Windows.  I mentioned multimedia in my original message.  I got a
little hacked a few weeks back when I visted a site that had some video
content.  They insisted that they were only able to show the videos to
Windows users.  HOWEVER, the video ads that preceded the desired video
worked JUST FINE on my linux machine.
 
I somehow don't believe that their videos are really Windows compatable
only!  ;-)
 
| Thanks for being a bright spot!
+-[JG=>MP]
 
Don't know that I've been called that before.  ;-)
 
Mike
 
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