He probably qualifies as the stupidest Lintard I’ve ever seen.

Assuming he’s being honest, of course.

Yes, because most people need to look up PCI id’s in order to locate drivers.
Dell at least has a website that will give you the drivers for your configuration and you just download them all.

In typical Linux fashion, it’s a poor rip-off of an existing idea ;o)

Few thoughts: – I thought Windows 7 was the latest Windows? – I thought W7 Home Premium costs about $200 on Microsoft’s Store, and by using some discount you could get upgraded for $50 at some point – I thought Windows Live Essentials contains a calendar ( so does Windows Vista by the way, lol – W7 doesn’t ), movie maker ( same ), Email client ( same ), and photo tools – I thought Office Home and Student costs $150 and the Office Starter costs an OEM $3 (!) bucks – I thought Windows found drivers automatically ( oh wait this is why he referred to vista, I see ) – I thought Vista COULD burn Audio CDs ( WMP can do ) and SP1+ can watch DVD movies including BluRay movies oob

And a question:
“look at the very intuitive and easy to read string PCI/VEN_1002&DEV_AA08&SUBSYS_AA081545&REV_00\4&1245FE7B&0&0108&”
On Linux you do this how? lspci ?

“Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://sontek.net/comments/post/
Django Version: 1.2 beta 1
Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist
Exception Value: comments/comment_notification_email.txt
Exception Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/template/loader.py in find_template, line 131
Python Executable: /usr/bin/python
Python Version: 2.6.4”
I tried to post a comment and got that with a full debug page. Way to go to enable DEBUG on a production server. I think this is very professional.

This page contradicts eveything I know about computer science.

I thought an OS’s main purpose was to provide a platform to run your programs on. Which means a stable API, decent compatibility with hardware and a consistent graphical and audio system.

But I guess I was wrong. An OS’s main purpose is to provide a bagfull of incomplete FLOSS apps that provide half-solutions to all your needs. Providing a stable API to run your programs on is apparently an afterthought.

Anyway, this site helped me verify the reason I love Windows and MacOS X. All you have to do is get MS Office, VLC, DVD Flick and Adobe Premiere or FinalCut and you are ready to go. In Linux, 6 weeks later and 1400$ in lost pay days, all you have is an OS that half-opens spreadsheets and documents, with video editors that half-work, and DVD burning programms that half do the job, and drivers that were coded by monkeys in (their mom’s) basements.

WorstCaseWhenItsWindows™
BestCaseWhenItsLinux™