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blue tooth card.. phone cam pics.. or utilize media PC function
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I agree that you have to be more picky in selecting your hardware, especially usb for example. My Lexmark printer, no way I got it to work on Linux, I dumped the cheapo and bought one decent printer.
Those manufacturers are too stupid or too lazy to write Linux drivers, that's up to them, but to ignore Linux is a narrow minded, short term thinking, foolish act.
I recently bought a external HD (harddisk) (usb2). In the shop it took the Thai technicians about 45 minutes to install and get it working on XP (3 reboots and one "hang"). At home I did a "mount /dev/sdc1 /HDDISK" and I was up and running.
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.. photoshop CS2.. drivers.. etc...
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I used Pshop extensively for 5 years on my Wintendo machine. Switching to Linux made me work with "the Gimp". I love it! Never want to go back to Pshop again. Besides that, The Gimp is open source and free, Pshop cost you a fortune. But even if it was for free, I would stick with the Gimp.
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For the desktop domination I feel that linux has to really focus on providing a unified desktop experience..
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The nice thing about Linux is that you can customize it any way you want, you can have the desktop you want. You can have some heavy desktopmanagers like Gnome or KDE, or some light weighted windowmanagers like Icewm (I am using). Maybe, you are right, so many options and choices confuse people. Some guidance from a Linux friend will help them a lot.
We work in a 100% Microsoft free office. We don't have malware, spyware, anti-virus kits or wahtever, computers never crash, and the people can do anything they want, they can open Word docs (OpenOffice), they can create pdf's, they can skype, browse, mail, print, play video's and listen mp3's. And of course, to update or modify their machines is a piece of cake for me (ssh).
The first word my wife learned from Holland was "godverdomme" (****ing shit). That was 4 years ago when I did not know about the fine world of Linux. I was shouting at my Wintendo machine more then 5 times a day: godverdomme this and godverdomme that.
After my total switch to Linux two years ago I never said that word again to my computer. I wasted 8 years on Wintendo. Never ever will I install or use that crap again.
The fact that it's totally free is for the most people no option to switch. They all use their software illegal. The majority doesn't know though that they pay indirectly 200-300 $ for their OS when buying their machine.
And Microsoft is not stupid. They accept that everybody is using their software illegal. At the moment that it would be clear how MUCH you are paying for that OS on your new PC, people are going to look at alternatives.
I'm not using Linux because it's free. I am using it beacuse it's a damn fine piece of software with hundreds of quality apps available, stable, secure. It is absolutely great fun to work with!