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What Can Mandriva Linux 2006 Mean for Home Users?
sitor writes "What can Mandriva Linux 2006 mean for home users? is an article giving an extensive explanation about the pro's and con's of using a linux distribution such as Mandriva Linux 2006. It was written with people in mind that are in doubt whether linux might be something for them or not. It aims to inform them in a neutral way, understandable to newbies. Next time you have someone asking you questions about Linux not knowing whether they should try, you can just direct them to this article."
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How about the pros and cons of apostrophe use?
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explanation about the pro's and con's of using a linux distribution...
You're an editor. When a moron sends you a submission, is it too much to ask that you actually do a little editing for at least the sake of proper grammar, spelling, and English?
Please see Bob about this abomination.
Are they actually paying you? If not, where is the ad and subscription money going?
Well, based on your anectdotal evidence, Linux has a ways to go. But based on my equally valid anectdotal evidence Linux is just fine now. I recently purchased my first laptop, so I previously new hardly anything about wireless, Linux or Windows. What did I do to get wireless working? Install Ubuntu and then.. nothing else. That was it. Less than what you had to do to get it working in Windows.
Well, I did have to choose a network in the network control panel.
Anyway, something not working on one specific hardware configuration doesn't say much. There will always be some computer that doesn't like some operating system.
With windows I would plug it in, it would ask me for the drivers and I would point to the correct folder.
With Windows (XP) the first time it did an update, it broke its network capability. My ISP's tech support could see my cablemodem, but not the computer. We came to the conclusion that maybe my network card or cable was bad.
After fiddling with stuff for a week, swapping cables and such, about to replace the network card I reinstalled XP because my CD burner (imation) stopped working too.
Windows breaks itself. I'm a nerd who has been playing with PCs for over two decades, hardware and programming, and this was hard for me to fix. I mean, you don't expect to lose functionality with an "update".
In the four years I used Linux, never once did a patch break the system.
Windows is a buggy piece of shit, just like all Microsoft products. The only thing that makes it "easier" than a modern Linux distro is the fact that people are already used to it, and some jackass hardware manufacturers (e.g., nVidia and ATI) seem to be subsidiaries of Microsoft.