Subject: Re: Linux sucks?

[Jason Powers]

Yeah I spotted this, too. Also, IBM MediaAccess USB Keyboards need the 
CD beforehand, or they don't work at all. If you try to install them on 
Win2k before running the CD, you had to dig through the registry to 
strip everything Windows thought was right out before you could put the 
CD in and try again (and again and again)

Jason

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 15:15, Tor Harald Thorland wrote:
> 
>>>Instead, XP users hit this when they add hardware and the 'automatic 
>>>detection' goes to work. Good examples are the 3Com cards that have 
>>>you put a CD in *before* installing the hardware so that the hardware 
>>>detection can be tweaked or disabled. This wreaks havoc on a reinstall 
>>>because you end up physically pulling hardware out of the box and 
>>>trying to put it back in the right order in order to avoid the plug 
>>>and play from killing the install. On Linux, the cards just work.
>>>
>>
>>A little funny issue from me too,,,
>>Did a webupdate from microsoft on a computer running XP Home yesterday, 
>>and it did a "upgrade" on a mouse driver (from the microsoft site)
>>The update needed a restart, and when I pressed the OK button the PC 
>>went to the "blue screen". When I rebooted it, it went fine until the XP 
>>logo showed up, then the computer restarted by it self. And restarted 
>>and restarted.
>>I tryed the "last working setup" from the "rescue screen".... And it 
>>didn't work either
>>In the end I had to reinstall!!
> 
> 
> Another fun one is to try to install any flavor of windows on a
> box with no floppy and the latest Adaptec scsi controller (i.e.
> a typical rack-mount server).  Windows will let you add drivers
> during the install, but the only place you can load them is
> from a floppy.
>