Windows Guy Tries Ubuntu 7.04

Is how much time I waste with the flakey wireless on my XP laptop compared to (these days) most distributions being almost trouble free on my (main) desktop machine.

oh goodie, let us whine together! XP Pro gives me absolute fits over connecting to unsecured access points. In classic Windows fashion, it thinks it knows better and insists that I need a WEP key. Heck, you'd think it would love an open WAP, so the malware can get there faster.

The thing I find amusing is the number of things that just run on Linux, that require that you first install drivers from the supplied CD, on windows.

*points to huge pile of Windows driver disks (or is that "discs"?) *

Yah... I too prefer things to just work. And our new system I went and picked the hardware veeery carefully to make sure every piece of it will work with me desktop OS of choice.

>*points to huge pile of Windows driver disks (or is that "discs"?) *

Come on you biased unappreciative jerks!!!

Without all those CDs, you'd probably end up putting cold drinks on wood furniture and screwing up the finish.

> Without all those CDs, you'd probably end up putting cold drinks on wood furniture and screwing up the finish.

That's what the AOL, People PC, and NetZero CD's are for.

>That's what the AOL, People PC, and NetZero CD's are for.

Well, OK then.

At least in the olden daze you could re-use those AOL floppy disks. Though hanging the CDs on fruit trees helps keep the birds out.

Hey I give all my old Linux CDs and DVDs away to people who want free coasters (social clubs for example), any windows ones, such as those that come with the hardware i buy, is either binned or removed from the packet at the shop, and given back to the shop owner, with the comment "I won't be needing this, I've got Linux".