Unfortunately, they're not offering XP support for the Inspiron 1525 they replaced my display-defective 1505n with.
One of the things I liked about the 1505n was that, even though I bought it because it was a factory Ubuntu Linux laptop, there was also full XP driver support. I need to run XP for work-related tasks. Now, I have discovered that the "upgrade" they replaced it with has NO XP drivers available at all - only Vista.
Based on spec, I'm gonna try using (most) of the XP driver set from the 1520 model - but this was still a real disappointment.
...while I go buy the latest desktop offering from Novell - and I don't even like SUSE.
Honest to God, the FSF has gone too far this time. I shook my head over their PETA-like "demonstrations", but this reaches new levels of idiocy - even for them. Who died and named Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen God? How dare you attempt to dictate to me what I can and can't run on my computer? "We defend your freedom...so long as it's what we define as freedom."
If the FSF owns the GNU software stack, it's obviously time for me to find other choices. I swear, if I didn't dislike Windows so much (from a usage POV, it's got nothing to do with ideology), I'd be going to buy a copy of Vista along with SLED.
If you couldn't tell, I'm really upset about this. I've been using Linux for the last 10+ years and I've always been able to shrug off the fringe element, the zealots. Unfortunately, it now appears that the inmates are running the asylum...
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Unfortunately, they're not offering XP support for the Inspiron 1525 they replaced my display-defective 1505n with. One of the things I liked about the 1505n was that, even though I bought it because it was a factory Ubuntu Linux laptop, there was also full XP driver support. I need to run XP for work-related tasks. Now, I have discovered that the "upgrade" they replaced it with has NO XP drivers available at all - only Vista. Based on spec, I'm gonna try using (most) of the XP driver set from the 1520 model - but this was still a real disappointment.
...while I go buy the latest desktop offering from Novell - and I don't even like SUSE. Honest to God, the FSF has gone too far this time. I shook my head over their PETA-like "demonstrations", but this reaches new levels of idiocy - even for them. Who died and named Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen God? How dare you attempt to dictate to me what I can and can't run on my computer? "We defend your freedom...so long as it's what we define as freedom." If the FSF owns the GNU software stack, it's obviously time for me to find other choices. I swear, if I didn't dislike Windows so much (from a usage POV, it's got nothing to do with ideology), I'd be going to buy a copy of Vista along with SLED. If you couldn't tell, I'm really upset about this. I've been using Linux for the last 10+ years and I've always been able to shrug off the fringe element, the zealots. Unfortunately, it now appears that the inmates are running the asylum...