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The article is correctThe article is correctPosted Mar 31, 2012 8:03 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)In reply to: The article is correct by scientes Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)
You must be living in a different reality to me. Even with hardware specifically researched for use with Linux and built myself into a PC, I've had major hardware support issues (random freezes requiring irqpoll after I diagnosed this, WiFi driver causing panic, etc) with Linux, and nothing significant with Windows XP or Windows 7.
Windows is not a pain-free experience either, but installing it isn't that hard even with the odd third party driver. I've even transferred a complete Windows 7 image from one Thinkpad laptop to a much more recent model (admittedly with help from Paragon Backup which refreshes the drivers on the new machine before it boots). I almost always install Windows from scratch, as with Linux.
I agree that getting Vista/7 drivers for older hardware is sometimes impossible, but in practice I haven't found this is a problem.
I have never had much luck with getting reported bugs fixed - I still get bug updates from a few older Ubuntu bugs that never went anywhere. This isn't so different to Windows really.
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The article is correct Posted Mar 31, 2012 13:11 UTC (Sat) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136) [Link]
It seems I'm also living in a different reality than you. ;) The only problems I encountered in Linux were related to nVidia blobs that caused X server to crash sometimes. Currently I'm running fglrx and it's even more problematic, but Open Source drivers work very well. However, I also have Windows XP installed and it's more problematic. Sometimes BSoD happens and HP deskjet printer works only with service pack 2. When I have service pack 3 installed I can't even copy drivers from CD to hard drive, because there's an error.
The article is correct Posted Apr 1, 2012 16:46 UTC (Sun) by tuna (guest, #44480) [Link]
There are Linux drivers that do not work and that do not get fixed, see
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30892 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711489
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