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The article is correct

The article is correct

Posted Mar 31, 2012 13:11 UTC (Sat) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136)
In reply to: The article is correct by Cato
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

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.


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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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