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Different distros have different/sometimes same
strengths and weaknesses. Do to the licensing and 'free' nature of most distros you may experience a hard time getting commercial multimedia to work out-of-the-box, and can spend way too much time googling and forum hopping to get a tv tuner, a digicam, particular printer or even video card/monitor to work. For the experience of trying these things out, some of us find that Windows does do enough things right to not want to spend more time getting Fedora, SuSe, Ubuntu or such to work like we want (or contact a dev and plead for this hardware support or some type of easy config file instead of writing ourselves or copy and paste). And the 'nearly works', like the tv tuner cards where the equipment is recognized by the output isn't there is just frustrating.

Linux does work, just not in the same way.

If nothing else, it's secure e-mail and web browsing, . . for now. Both sides will continue to get better, . . . it's the users who seem to be going from bad to worse. Just look at this forum wink
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huh???  Linux Geek | 08/29/06
"Somebody is smoking somthing"  Jack-Booted EULA | 08/29/06
Don't worry  Boot_Agnostic | 08/30/06
Gee, so your saying competition is good?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/29/06
As long as Microsoft does not bundle it and prices at a level where the  DonnieBoy | 08/29/06
Competition IS putting the other guy out.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/30/06
competition  Seenidog | 08/30/06
While it lasts...  msolgeek | 08/29/06
When was the last time you can point to MSFT illegally...  marksashton | 08/29/06
Well...  zkiwi | 08/29/06
Axey, how can you say "Microsoft" and "competition" in ...  OButterball | 08/29/06
Hmmm. A company that strongarmed their way in, with substandard software,  HypnoToad | 08/29/06
hmmmmmmmm  Shelendrea | 08/29/06
Jeez Louise lady  Confused by religion | 08/29/06
but wait - my beating heart  not of this world | 08/29/06
Name and date the last one for Linux...  Linux User 147560 | 08/29/06
Sorry - sifting through the tens of thousands  Confused by religion | 08/29/06
You ask? As recently as Tuesday the 22nd 2006  the_seb | 08/30/06
BAM!  zmud | 08/30/06
Oooh, someone just got SPANKED!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/30/06
AX...  Seenidog | 08/30/06
Try again...  Linux User 147560 | 08/30/06
One more thing  Linux User 147560 | 08/30/06
Nope  Shelendrea | 08/30/06
And you say this AFTER using OneCare?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/30/06
Why yes Axey I do  Shelendrea | 08/30/06
That system probably had all that crap on it prior to One Care  Confused by religion | 08/30/06
Easy now - this is just an advertisement for vista  not of this world | 08/29/06
More innovation or less quality?  jmphilippe | 08/30/06
Windows just works  tangentjohn@... | 08/30/06
Different distros have different/sometimes same  Boot_Agnostic | 08/31/06

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