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CowboyTeal writes:
"Windows 8 is still being disputed as either the product of a genius or a nerdy sadist but that doesn't mean Windows 9 isn't in the works. That said, how would you guys improve Windows if you could change anything about it? Has windows 8 improved or degraded your overall experience of the Windows platform? If you're not a Windows user, what features would you like to see in Windows for possible assimilation?"
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @05:07AM
Didn't anybody notice the "wink"?
Wit is in the eye/ear of the beholder [google.com]. You need to try harder.
As for your original point, as others have alluded to, if you have hardware that doesn't "just work" it's because you have chosen a sucky product from a sucky manufacturer with sucky support.
For years and years, the Linux Driver Project has offered labor (gratis) to make products Linux-compatible.
If a manufacturer's products aren't, it's because that vendor is standing in the doorway and blocking progress [googleusercontent.com].(orig) [lwn.net]
Even Broadcom, who has a reputation for zero Linux support (wouldn't even release specs and made everyone reverse-engineer everything), is coming around [google.com].
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @05:20AM
An interesting point of view: if something doesn't run well on Linux, it must be the hardware manufacturer's fault. Maybe so, but personally, I enjoy being "free" to use whatever hardware I want...
(Score: 1) by tangomargarine on Monday March 03 2014, @10:01PM
I guess if you value the "freedom" to only run Windows...
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:01AM
it must be the hardware manufacturer's fault
Exactly my point. Glad you got it.
Now, who do you think produced the device driver for that item so that it would run under Windoze? M$?
Bzzzzt. Wrong. The hardware manufacture who refused to support Linux was the same bunch who produced that Windoze-compatible driver.
I enjoy being "free" to use whatever hardware I want
As tangomargarine intimated, you guys who not only enjoy slavery but will willing purchase your own chains are really strange.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 30 2014, @11:23PM
An example of fringe gear (a dance pad):
Convention wisdom would say that getting a Windoze device driver that works would be duck soup.
Convention wisdom (aka Windoze fanboys' opinions) would say that there is no Linux support for the device.
Wrong on both counts. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [archlinux.org]
-- gewg_