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Who are the Linux desktop users?
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A perfect example of how polls can mislead....
No. Kidding. I just skimmed that, and it seemed very weak to me.
I for instance, am in my 40s, haven't taken a college class since 1983, and the only hardware support I find "lacking" is for sound cards. For some reason, I've only ever gotten sound cards to work with SuSE 7.3 and 8.0. For some examples of strange hardware support, I just put Slackware 11.0 on a 700 MHz Pentium 3 box, that a friend's employer's IT department was going to scrap. It had an SiS-based graphics card in it. I got X11 working on that SiS-based card, and put in an original 1995 Matrox Millenium card, which also worked. Dual 1152x864 monitors! De luxe!
I am, however, a Slackware user, and I imagine that a poll of self-selecting Slackware users would have a more bizarre distribution than that of OpenSuSE users.
I for instance, am in my 40s, haven't taken a college class since 1983, and the only hardware support I find "lacking" is for sound cards. For some reason, I've only ever gotten sound cards to work with SuSE 7.3 and 8.0. For some examples of strange hardware support, I just put Slackware 11.0 on a 700 MHz Pentium 3 box, that a friend's employer's IT department was going to scrap. It had an SiS-based graphics card in it. I got X11 working on that SiS-based card, and put in an original 1995 Matrox Millenium card, which also worked. Dual 1152x864 monitors! De luxe!
I am, however, a Slackware user, and I imagine that a poll of self-selecting Slackware users would have a more bizarre distribution than that of OpenSuSE users.
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