And rail is even worse than flying, because you still have all the same delays PLUS longer travel times.
Where I live (Nor cal), to fly anywhere, I have to drive 90 miles to the nearest airport, or 3 hours to the big one in SF. Then the typical wait at the airport for 1-3 hours, before one can even get on the plane.
By Rail it is even worse. Let say I want to travel to LA or San Diego, 500-600 miles away. I have to get to the local train station, which is actually a BUS, which takes me to Oakland and the crappy train station there. Where I will wait 2-5 hours for the train to So Cal. From there it is another 8-12 hours on the train. That's right, 8 - 10 hour trip is doubled by taking a train. And the cost of taking a family of four by train vs hopping in a car and driving is 2 times the price, even if you include meals on the way.
Until I can get on a train, and have it cost same or less, and get me there in a REASONABLE amount of time, no thanks.
Nothing like promoting a false sense of security. We don't need more laws protecting stupid people from being stupid. If people don't understand the consequences of their actions why should that affect me and what I choose to do?
We can write all the laws we want to protect people from getting burned, but the reality is, that gas and matches are dangerous.
The INTERNET isn't private. It is PUBLIC. What you do on the internet, what sites you go to, what you look at, what you listen to, what you do, what information you send, what you receive is ALL PUBLIC.
You want privacy? Encrypt everything you don't want anyone else to see. And you better trust the person on the other end to keep your info private, and good luck with that.
1) Long term can be defined in any arbitrary way. Capital Gains income (investment) should be defined differently than ordinary income (earned). People should be rewarded for taking a long term approach to investment, and not punished. All sorts of laws have arbitrary clauses. You can kill a little girl and not be subject to the death penalty, but if you kidnap her before you kill her, you are: Arbitrary. Rob a bank is one charge, but rob a bank with a gun is another charge, why?
2) I would agree with you on this. I'm all for replacing the income tax with a consumption tax. Tax all the things society says they don't want (sin tax). We can reduce or even eliminate all sorts of vices if we just take this approach. But that seems to be too libertarian for most people. All taxes should be voluntary (pay when you need something).
3) I never claimed "fair". Life isn't fair, and we can't make it fair. People are going to abuse the system, because there are always going to be assholes. Compensatory damages can be calculated, and don't have to be up to juries and lawyers or even judges. Remember, there is no way to be completely fair, but we can at least be consistent.
4) Mathematical formulas are not patentable. Discoveries of natural science and mathematics shouldn't be subject to patents. Einstein didn't and couldn't patent E=MC**2. Patents are arbitrary by their nature, being a construct of government protection for the purposes of gaining knowledge. If patents no longer serve this function, then they should be eliminated.
There is such a thing as right and wrong. Even if you kill everyone on the planet and there is nobody left to tell you, it is still wrong. Of course, if you REALLY believe there is no such thing as right and wrong, then what basis is there for ANY law?
Lack of accountability is when CEO can destroy a company in the search for short term gains. Remove the short sightedness from performance charts and that will fix a great many of the problems.
As for your this was caused by "de-regulation" I would heartedly disagree. This whole mess was caused by long term government monkeying with regulations in such a way that people are looking at increasingly complex ways around government regulations.
This is nothing more than businesses looking at how to get around government in more and more complex ways. Every government regulation is simply another brick in the great economic firewall.
Assholes* are the problem. But there is nothing we can do to stop assholes from being assholes. All the rules and regulations trying to prevent assholes from being assholes don't actually stop assholes at all.
*Assholes being defined as people who aren't doing anything illegal, but are gaming the system on just this side of legality. Everyone knows an asshole, because they are the ones everyone hates, but can't do anything about, because they aren't doing anything "technically wrong". They are the ones who FUBBAR the system for everyone else. Everytime you hear "there ought to be a law", you've just met the result of an asshole. The answser is "No, there doesn't need to be a law, he's just an asshole".
If people want a real economic recovery, then the government should reduce the risk of investing in new businesses, which create and sustain economic growth.
Of course all the progressives will say that "favors the rich" etc and so on to any suggestion that makes businesses succeed. Which means that success is punished, and failure is rewarded, as it is currently in this country.
Here is my plan.
1) Capital Gains taxes on long term investments will be 0%. Long term investment = 5 years or longer. No taxes on dividends on any investment property (real or stock or otherwise) held over 5 years.
2) Simplfy tax codes to a flat and progressive personal income tax of 10 and 20%, with a generous personal exemption, say first 15,000 of income. However, everyone pays a minimum tax $100(or whatever). Everyone has to send a tax into the government. The reason is people who don't pay any taxes don't care what it is spent on; "it isn't my money".
3) Lawsuit reform. People can sue for real damages (pain suffering etc) still, but limits will be placed so that it no longer a "get rich quick" scheme. Additionally, punitive damages do not go to the vicim, but rather to the state (victims fund), and there is a Lawyer cap fee of 5% on those.
4) Patent Reform which includes peer review process for patent applications. Reforms would require not only abstract but a working (fully funtional) form of the invention. Software, mathmatical and other such "process" applications are void.
Breaking the stranglehold of government interference into earning a livelyhood is paramount to fixing the systemic problems we have now.
However, I'm sure that there is someone somewhere that would protest these very simple and sure solutions because it is "unfair" to someone somewhere. Well guess what? NOT having these rules are unfair to those that want the government to get out of the way so we can actually get stuff done.
There is something wrong when the government makes more on everything than the businesses providing the services and products being taxed (NewYork I'm looking at you!!!).
Four very simple things to do that would free up businesses to make products and services without having to look over their shoulder every two seconds to see some government or lawyer coming at them for something.
I had to integrate the DST Patch into my RIS image because MS didn't include it in SP3. Not having the DST patch integrated played havoc with OUTLOOK Calendars.
With DST, I only partially blame Microsoft. Yes, DST programming should have been more flexible. However, the real blame for DST issues lies with the morons running our country.
This is why our country is going to the crapper in a racecar. Some special interest group gets to screw over everyone else.
With the advent of mass media (TV, Cable, and now Internet) a good investigative journalist only gets one story. After that, if it was a good or excellent story, then they are doomed to fame, which will prevent any further investigative reports.
The problem is that fame breeds the inability to gather information quietly, and sources confidential, both of which are needed for good investigations.
But there is even bigger problem with investigative journalism in general. This problem is called MONEY. It takes a great deal of money to do a good investigation. Combine this with the previously mentioned problem and you can see the real problem. Unknown investigative journalists get no momey to investigate anything. So they have to practically starve while running the investigation.
Then you have the cases like that of Dan Rather who do investigative pieces, who don't investigate any of the sources and defend the conclusions of the piece even when the evidence is shown to be fabricated. We call this "Liberal Bias" most of the time, unless Fox News is involved, then we call it Faux News.
It doesn't work. My Raid Card doesn't work on Linux (Ubunutu) even with "linux" drivers, and I'm using Windows instead, because it does work.
And the driver didn't even compile correctly. Yes, Linux doesn't work like Windows, it also doesn't work even when you have all the right parts. THIS cannot be called "reliable", when I'm forced to go somewhere else to get it to work. It isn't like I don't know what I'm doing (changing the script shows this) and don't understand the differences.
Somalia is just about the only country which is truly free. You can do just about anything you want there.
But I doubt most people would want to live there.
The problem is, most people don't want true freedom. True freedom is truly dangerous. Realistically all these pseudo-anarchists want rules for everyone else, just not for themselves.
I wonder what they would do if someone came and busted out their windows and torched their cars?
I wonder if they would call the "police state" they are protesting?
ALL sides use procedural processes to do things that otherwise wouldn't work. This is a good example of feigning outrage while silently supporting the actions of a few.
These things are designed to hide things that people otherwise would vote for. Like Sen Dodd feigning outrage over AIG bonus', while he was the one who put the amendment into the bill to allow for it. That is, until he got caught with his pants down (aka lying about it).
Most career politicians are crooks. Honest people cannot stay politicians for long. They either turn to being crooks themselves or get voted out in favor of a crook.
Yes Linux is different than windows. Mac is different from Windows too. I've even played with BeOS, Amiga and many other OSes when they existed.
I don't care what OS I use. I want it to get out of my way and let me get stuff done. Marketing cannot change the fact that I couldn't make the whole thing work even with my understanding and editing of the make scripts to compile modules for the kernel.
Many geeks don't get the iPod, and why it is so popular, even as there are other MP3 devices that have more capacity for less money, and even arguably better interfaces. Yes, all those things are true, but that doesn't matter if people can't figure it all out, and make it easy to use.
My wife has an iPod, and my daughter has another brand MP3 player, which was cheaper and more capacity. Guess which one is used all the time?
The iPod doesn't get in the way, and just works.
If we (and that includes me btw) want Linux to succeed, we have to realize that it has to just "work", get out of the way, and let us get stuff done.
The option is that we go back to Windows or Mac after trying for a while and giving up trying to get Linux to just "work"
Actually, you misunderstand my point. Redhat is linux. SuSE is linux. Debian is linux. Ubuntu is Linux.
If the driver really is the problem, it wouldn't work under any version of linux. The fact that it works (supposedly) under three out of four should indicate that it a good driver.
If you want to blame someone, blame Ubuntu. Or blame Linux. Ubuntu is very good, which is why I chose it to be the distribution I used for this project.
And we shouldn't need one flavor. What we need is for Linux to support drivers in a universal way, so that people can build ONE driver that just plain works. Not three or four, using at least two different build utilities to compile the kernel modules needed to make the thing work.
I would even settle for series of drivers built to kernel versions (2.4, 2.6 etc), where the installer can figure out which driver to actually install, and just work.
I don't need to waste several days installing and testing different distributions, drivers and such, just to get a RAID card to work right.
The cost of Windows Server is less costly than my time trying to get Linux to work. Again, you can blame the driver, the hardware, linux and everything in between. But when everything else is the same.... and windows just works.... linux isn't ready.
I'm not sure whether or not your are trying to agree with me. But I think your examples shows a great deal of thought and proper protocol. The letters from previous era shows a great deal of thoughtfulness of a personal nature.
"I suspect that Bush wasn't in the habit of giving tacky gifts."
At this point, Obama is making GWB look like a freaking Rocket Scientist. Which, if someone told me was even possible six months ago, I would have laughed myself silly.
Before I go much further, let me just say that Linux has come a long way and is getting very close. But it has been this way for years.
The problems that exist are still fundamental, and aren't being addressed. I'm a normal computer professional, and I know a thing to two from my nearly 30 years of computing.
My story summary, DRIVER PROBLEMS:
I was building a big RAID box using a nice SATA Controller and a bunch of gig SATA drives. I got Ubuntu fully installed and then the fun began. I got the open source drivers from the Company and went to compile them for the kernel. The compiler errored out because Ubuntu is using a different build system than the script was expecting.
No problem, I know enough to edit the script and get the driver to compile and build right. Except the driver only sort of works. The whole system crashed for no reason (sitting idle) several times, but not kernel crash, just Gnome crash. Telnet still worked, and I could shutdown -r the server and it would reboot. Without the driver loaded, the system was rock solid, with the driver it was flakey as hell. Again, not a kernel issue, just Gnome crashing.
After several days of futzing with the setup, I grabbed a Windows Server disk and loaded it, installed the drivers and it hasn't had a hiccup once.
I REALLY wanted Linux to work, and I really tried everything I knew how to do to get it to work. And yes, it might be a "driver" problem. But the average user isn't going to say it is a driver problem, they are going to say it is a Linux problem. It is a Linux problem when stuff that is supposed to work, doesn't.
Now the driver in question had installers for Debian, Redhat, SuSE and FreeBSD, but not for Ubuntu. Shouldn't Linux be Linux? Three different flavors of Linux, and each requires its own installer? And why did I have to edit a install script to build the module at all?
Again, this isn't a bash against Linux itself, as I use it all the time for all sorts of things. But I run into issues all the time where stuff just doesn't work right, or at all, or I have to spend three days futzing trying to get it to work.
I tend to return to Mac and Windows to actually get stuff done, because I don't have to fight the system to work right.
These types of problems have come along way from the early days of Linux. But they still are there. And blaming the Driver manufacturer for the problems isn't good enough. It isn't the driver's fault that they have to make three or more versions to cover all the distributions out there.
It still needs a lot of work, and often in the same areas that needed work 5 years ago.
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Bingo.
And rail is even worse than flying, because you still have all the same delays PLUS longer travel times.
Where I live (Nor cal), to fly anywhere, I have to drive 90 miles to the nearest airport, or 3 hours to the big one in SF. Then the typical wait at the airport for 1-3 hours, before one can even get on the plane.
By Rail it is even worse. Let say I want to travel to LA or San Diego, 500-600 miles away. I have to get to the local train station, which is actually a BUS, which takes me to Oakland and the crappy train station there. Where I will wait 2-5 hours for the train to So Cal. From there it is another 8-12 hours on the train. That's right, 8 - 10 hour trip is doubled by taking a train. And the cost of taking a family of four by train vs hopping in a car and driving is 2 times the price, even if you include meals on the way.
Until I can get on a train, and have it cost same or less, and get me there in a REASONABLE amount of time, no thanks.
Orcs?
Nothing like promoting a false sense of security. We don't need more laws protecting stupid people from being stupid. If people don't understand the consequences of their actions why should that affect me and what I choose to do?
We can write all the laws we want to protect people from getting burned, but the reality is, that gas and matches are dangerous.
The INTERNET isn't private. It is PUBLIC. What you do on the internet, what sites you go to, what you look at, what you listen to, what you do, what information you send, what you receive is ALL PUBLIC.
You want privacy? Encrypt everything you don't want anyone else to see. And you better trust the person on the other end to keep your info private, and good luck with that.
1) Long term can be defined in any arbitrary way. Capital Gains income (investment) should be defined differently than ordinary income (earned). People should be rewarded for taking a long term approach to investment, and not punished. All sorts of laws have arbitrary clauses. You can kill a little girl and not be subject to the death penalty, but if you kidnap her before you kill her, you are: Arbitrary. Rob a bank is one charge, but rob a bank with a gun is another charge, why?
2) I would agree with you on this. I'm all for replacing the income tax with a consumption tax. Tax all the things society says they don't want (sin tax). We can reduce or even eliminate all sorts of vices if we just take this approach. But that seems to be too libertarian for most people. All taxes should be voluntary (pay when you need something).
3) I never claimed "fair". Life isn't fair, and we can't make it fair. People are going to abuse the system, because there are always going to be assholes. Compensatory damages can be calculated, and don't have to be up to juries and lawyers or even judges. Remember, there is no way to be completely fair, but we can at least be consistent.
4) Mathematical formulas are not patentable. Discoveries of natural science and mathematics shouldn't be subject to patents. Einstein didn't and couldn't patent E=MC**2. Patents are arbitrary by their nature, being a construct of government protection for the purposes of gaining knowledge. If patents no longer serve this function, then they should be eliminated.
There is such a thing as right and wrong. Even if you kill everyone on the planet and there is nobody left to tell you, it is still wrong. Of course, if you REALLY believe there is no such thing as right and wrong, then what basis is there for ANY law?
Lack of accountability is when CEO can destroy a company in the search for short term gains. Remove the short sightedness from performance charts and that will fix a great many of the problems.
As for your this was caused by "de-regulation" I would heartedly disagree. This whole mess was caused by long term government monkeying with regulations in such a way that people are looking at increasingly complex ways around government regulations.
This is nothing more than businesses looking at how to get around government in more and more complex ways. Every government regulation is simply another brick in the great economic firewall.
Assholes* are the problem. But there is nothing we can do to stop assholes from being assholes. All the rules and regulations trying to prevent assholes from being assholes don't actually stop assholes at all.
*Assholes being defined as people who aren't doing anything illegal, but are gaming the system on just this side of legality. Everyone knows an asshole, because they are the ones everyone hates, but can't do anything about, because they aren't doing anything "technically wrong". They are the ones who FUBBAR the system for everyone else. Everytime you hear "there ought to be a law", you've just met the result of an asshole. The answser is "No, there doesn't need to be a law, he's just an asshole".
If people want a real economic recovery, then the government should reduce the risk of investing in new businesses, which create and sustain economic growth.
Of course all the progressives will say that "favors the rich" etc and so on to any suggestion that makes businesses succeed. Which means that success is punished, and failure is rewarded, as it is currently in this country.
Here is my plan.
1) Capital Gains taxes on long term investments will be 0%. Long term investment = 5 years or longer. No taxes on dividends on any investment property (real or stock or otherwise) held over 5 years.
2) Simplfy tax codes to a flat and progressive personal income tax of 10 and 20%, with a generous personal exemption, say first 15,000 of income. However, everyone pays a minimum tax $100(or whatever). Everyone has to send a tax into the government. The reason is people who don't pay any taxes don't care what it is spent on; "it isn't my money".
3) Lawsuit reform. People can sue for real damages (pain suffering etc) still, but limits will be placed so that it no longer a "get rich quick" scheme. Additionally, punitive damages do not go to the vicim, but rather to the state (victims fund), and there is a Lawyer cap fee of 5% on those.
4) Patent Reform which includes peer review process for patent applications. Reforms would require not only abstract but a working (fully funtional) form of the invention. Software, mathmatical and other such "process" applications are void.
Breaking the stranglehold of government interference into earning a livelyhood is paramount to fixing the systemic problems we have now.
However, I'm sure that there is someone somewhere that would protest these very simple and sure solutions because it is "unfair" to someone somewhere. Well guess what? NOT having these rules are unfair to those that want the government to get out of the way so we can actually get stuff done.
There is something wrong when the government makes more on everything than the businesses providing the services and products being taxed (NewYork I'm looking at you!!!).
Four very simple things to do that would free up businesses to make products and services without having to look over their shoulder every two seconds to see some government or lawyer coming at them for something.
Handcuffs in the bathroom?
I would never have thought of that on my own. THANK YOU for giving me a great idea. WOOO HOOOO.
"cannot revise or create that code of ethics by fiat."
You sir, have never heard of "Executive Order" have you?
Laws are created by fiat all the time.
PS/2? That machine sucked!
THAT doesn't fix the DST problem.
I had to integrate the DST Patch into my RIS image because MS didn't include it in SP3. Not having the DST patch integrated played havoc with OUTLOOK Calendars.
With DST, I only partially blame Microsoft. Yes, DST programming should have been more flexible. However, the real blame for DST issues lies with the morons running our country.
This is why our country is going to the crapper in a racecar. Some special interest group gets to screw over everyone else.
With the advent of mass media (TV, Cable, and now Internet) a good investigative journalist only gets one story. After that, if it was a good or excellent story, then they are doomed to fame, which will prevent any further investigative reports.
The problem is that fame breeds the inability to gather information quietly, and sources confidential, both of which are needed for good investigations.
But there is even bigger problem with investigative journalism in general. This problem is called MONEY. It takes a great deal of money to do a good investigation. Combine this with the previously mentioned problem and you can see the real problem. Unknown investigative journalists get no momey to investigate anything. So they have to practically starve while running the investigation.
Then you have the cases like that of Dan Rather who do investigative pieces, who don't investigate any of the sources and defend the conclusions of the piece even when the evidence is shown to be fabricated. We call this "Liberal Bias" most of the time, unless Fox News is involved, then we call it Faux News.
Actually, it was probably one of the NIMBY Kennedy's who opposed such a thing because it obstructed their view off Hyannis Port
It doesn't work. My Raid Card doesn't work on Linux (Ubunutu) even with "linux" drivers, and I'm using Windows instead, because it does work.
And the driver didn't even compile correctly. Yes, Linux doesn't work like Windows, it also doesn't work even when you have all the right parts. THIS cannot be called "reliable", when I'm forced to go somewhere else to get it to work. It isn't like I don't know what I'm doing (changing the script shows this) and don't understand the differences.
I've RTFM.
Curiosity didn't kill the cat. It was Ignorance that killed the cat, and framed curiosity.
Somalia is just about the only country which is truly free. You can do just about anything you want there.
But I doubt most people would want to live there.
The problem is, most people don't want true freedom. True freedom is truly dangerous. Realistically all these pseudo-anarchists want rules for everyone else, just not for themselves.
I wonder what they would do if someone came and busted out their windows and torched their cars?
I wonder if they would call the "police state" they are protesting?
BINGO!
ALL sides use procedural processes to do things that otherwise wouldn't work. This is a good example of feigning outrage while silently supporting the actions of a few.
These things are designed to hide things that people otherwise would vote for. Like Sen Dodd feigning outrage over AIG bonus', while he was the one who put the amendment into the bill to allow for it. That is, until he got caught with his pants down (aka lying about it).
Most career politicians are crooks. Honest people cannot stay politicians for long. They either turn to being crooks themselves or get voted out in favor of a crook.
I have little, if any, use for politicians.
My kingdom for Mod Points.
This is why governments should be limited in scope.
And people should not be afraid of government, but rather government afraid of its people!
Yes Linux is different than windows. Mac is different from Windows too. I've even played with BeOS, Amiga and many other OSes when they existed.
I don't care what OS I use. I want it to get out of my way and let me get stuff done. Marketing cannot change the fact that I couldn't make the whole thing work even with my understanding and editing of the make scripts to compile modules for the kernel.
Many geeks don't get the iPod, and why it is so popular, even as there are other MP3 devices that have more capacity for less money, and even arguably better interfaces. Yes, all those things are true, but that doesn't matter if people can't figure it all out, and make it easy to use.
My wife has an iPod, and my daughter has another brand MP3 player, which was cheaper and more capacity. Guess which one is used all the time?
The iPod doesn't get in the way, and just works.
If we (and that includes me btw) want Linux to succeed, we have to realize that it has to just "work", get out of the way, and let us get stuff done.
The option is that we go back to Windows or Mac after trying for a while and giving up trying to get Linux to just "work"
Actually, you misunderstand my point. Redhat is linux. SuSE is linux. Debian is linux. Ubuntu is Linux.
If the driver really is the problem, it wouldn't work under any version of linux. The fact that it works (supposedly) under three out of four should indicate that it a good driver.
If you want to blame someone, blame Ubuntu. Or blame Linux. Ubuntu is very good, which is why I chose it to be the distribution I used for this project.
And we shouldn't need one flavor. What we need is for Linux to support drivers in a universal way, so that people can build ONE driver that just plain works. Not three or four, using at least two different build utilities to compile the kernel modules needed to make the thing work.
I would even settle for series of drivers built to kernel versions (2.4, 2.6 etc), where the installer can figure out which driver to actually install, and just work.
I don't need to waste several days installing and testing different distributions, drivers and such, just to get a RAID card to work right.
The cost of Windows Server is less costly than my time trying to get Linux to work. Again, you can blame the driver, the hardware, linux and everything in between. But when everything else is the same .... and windows just works .... linux isn't ready.
Didn't work.
Neither did trying to use the Redhat or SuSE ones. I spent "several days", and by that I meant productive hours of trying, researching, RTFM etc.
Again, one can blame the manufacturer (they are partly to blame obviously), but some of the blame belongs with Linux itself (not the distribution).
There is no consistency.
I'm not sure whether or not your are trying to agree with me. But I think your examples shows a great deal of thought and proper protocol. The letters from previous era shows a great deal of thoughtfulness of a personal nature.
Where is Smiling Bob when you need him?
"I suspect that Bush wasn't in the habit of giving tacky gifts."
At this point, Obama is making GWB look like a freaking Rocket Scientist. Which, if someone told me was even possible six months ago, I would have laughed myself silly.
Fact is Linux isn't ready. Period. STILL.
Before I go much further, let me just say that Linux has come a long way and is getting very close. But it has been this way for years.
The problems that exist are still fundamental, and aren't being addressed. I'm a normal computer professional, and I know a thing to two from my nearly 30 years of computing.
My story summary, DRIVER PROBLEMS:
I was building a big RAID box using a nice SATA Controller and a bunch of gig SATA drives. I got Ubuntu fully installed and then the fun began. I got the open source drivers from the Company and went to compile them for the kernel. The compiler errored out because Ubuntu is using a different build system than the script was expecting.
No problem, I know enough to edit the script and get the driver to compile and build right. Except the driver only sort of works. The whole system crashed for no reason (sitting idle) several times, but not kernel crash, just Gnome crash. Telnet still worked, and I could shutdown -r the server and it would reboot. Without the driver loaded, the system was rock solid, with the driver it was flakey as hell. Again, not a kernel issue, just Gnome crashing.
After several days of futzing with the setup, I grabbed a Windows Server disk and loaded it, installed the drivers and it hasn't had a hiccup once.
I REALLY wanted Linux to work, and I really tried everything I knew how to do to get it to work. And yes, it might be a "driver" problem. But the average user isn't going to say it is a driver problem, they are going to say it is a Linux problem. It is a Linux problem when stuff that is supposed to work, doesn't.
Now the driver in question had installers for Debian, Redhat, SuSE and FreeBSD, but not for Ubuntu. Shouldn't Linux be Linux? Three different flavors of Linux, and each requires its own installer? And why did I have to edit a install script to build the module at all?
Again, this isn't a bash against Linux itself, as I use it all the time for all sorts of things. But I run into issues all the time where stuff just doesn't work right, or at all, or I have to spend three days futzing trying to get it to work.
I tend to return to Mac and Windows to actually get stuff done, because I don't have to fight the system to work right.
These types of problems have come along way from the early days of Linux. But they still are there. And blaming the Driver manufacturer for the problems isn't good enough. It isn't the driver's fault that they have to make three or more versions to cover all the distributions out there.
It still needs a lot of work, and often in the same areas that needed work 5 years ago.