I have in Nvidia motherboard. I can install WinXP on the machine, but I can't use the onboard network interface until I've installed the drivers. It has USB2, but I can only get USB1.1 speeds until I install the drivers. It has onboard sound, but I need to install the appropriate drivers.
All these things have just worked in Linux for me for a long time. I haven't had to install the drivers to get them to work for me because most common hardware is supported directly. Including my Lexmark printer, my Canon flatbed scanner, my Logitech webcam, my Winfast TV Tuner card and so on.
It's been the exact opposite for me over the past three years and 3 systems. Why do I always get nVidia boards and ATI videocards? Because where I'm at they are what's available with the best bang:buck ratio.
But despite the fact that so far only the latest version of Knoppix has ever worked on any of my systems, I still told people to try it out.
Now I'd rather just buy 2 macminis and give it to people and they either give it back or pay me.
as a 10 year windows user and 2 year mac user, um, news flash: it DOES 'kinda' work like that!
sure there were some hurdles.. example: Renaming a file: Enter(mac) = F2(win) Creating a shortcut: alt+cmd+drag(mac) = alt+drag(win)
honestly the keyboard shortcut differences were annoying at first but I got used to them and although Macs severely lack Windows wonderful alt+underlined letter navigation system thats quite logical and the greatest thing EVER! macs do have the whole "apple key+letter = something logical happens" thing going for them. The windows key has been around how many years and it mostly only opens the start menu, run box, and shows the desktop, a mere 3 logical things. It does other stuff I'm sure, but not as logically.
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I just ran the Ubuntu live CD which didn't want to give me a higher screen resolution than ubuntu@ubuntu~$:
Then I ran knoppix which didnt want to give me a resolution higher than 640x480. Nor did it want to connect to any of my harddrives.
as a 10 year windows user and 2 year mac user, um,
news flash: it DOES 'kinda' work like that!
sure there were some hurdles..
example:
Renaming a file: Enter(mac) = F2(win)
Creating a shortcut: alt+cmd+drag(mac) = alt+drag(win)
honestly the keyboard shortcut differences were annoying at first but I got used to them and although Macs severely lack Windows wonderful alt+underlined letter navigation system thats quite logical and the greatest thing EVER! macs do have the whole "apple key+letter = something logical happens" thing going for them. The windows key has been around how many years and it mostly only opens the start menu, run box, and shows the desktop, a mere 3 logical things. It does other stuff I'm sure, but not as logically.