I've noticed a few threads were people complained about Linux hardware compatibility so I thought I'd write this.
I had a Linux boot on my computer and my laptop. I uninstalled it on my laptop as it only has a 60GB hard drive and I bought the sims 2 with a good few expansions, completly filling the remaining free space on my windows partition. My computer's hard drive failed on me last Thursday.
Every computer I have ever installed Linux (Dell Dimension 8300, Inspiron 8600, Precision M60 and some 2001 HP computer) on has just worked with no driver issues. I have 5 discs with drivers that need to be installed for Windows to use things like my printer, graphics card, speakers, network card etc. These all worked perfectly after Linux was installed (which only took 20 minutes average compared to XP's 1-2 hours).
The only thing I couldn't get to work was a Netgear WPN111, wireless network dongle that is hit and miss on Windows aswell.
What is everyone else's experiences with Linux and compatibilty. The distro I use is PCLinuxOS.
I had a Linux boot on my computer and my laptop. I uninstalled it on my laptop as it only has a 60GB hard drive and I bought the sims 2 with a good few expansions, completly filling the remaining free space on my windows partition. My computer's hard drive failed on me last Thursday.
Every computer I have ever installed Linux (Dell Dimension 8300, Inspiron 8600, Precision M60 and some 2001 HP computer) on has just worked with no driver issues. I have 5 discs with drivers that need to be installed for Windows to use things like my printer, graphics card, speakers, network card etc. These all worked perfectly after Linux was installed (which only took 20 minutes average compared to XP's 1-2 hours).
The only thing I couldn't get to work was a Netgear WPN111, wireless network dongle that is hit and miss on Windows aswell.
What is everyone else's experiences with Linux and compatibilty. The distro I use is PCLinuxOS.