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Open source rocks.
I run Ubuntu and centos myself. Oh sure I don't get all the network chatter Vista gives you, but really do I need my PC phoning home at all hours of the day and night?
Open source is great to a point. Linux's drivers are either awesome or next to worthless. Case in point, the ATI drivers. Ubuntu runs terribly on my laptop because the drivers for ATI radeon mobile GPUs are so bad that they are nearly unusable. The community-developed ones aren't any better either.
I'm hoping that HaikuOS will hit its first alpha in a month or two.
Mike -- Ubuntu 8.10 worked fine with all of my ATI equipment. However after AMD bought out ATI and decided to pick and choose on which drivers to support it got painful. Mostly I run Nvidia hardware so it's a non-issue, but I agree that drivers have a ways to go.
Mike,
Write your own drivers!
The hardware manufacturers will have to step up the driver compatibility.
Perhaps someone in the open source community could develop some sort of interface that would allow windows drivers to work through some sort of emulator. That would cause all kinds of performance problems though. But it could certainly be helpful for devices where performance is not as essential like printers.
I love open source. I run a number of Ubuntu servers and have never had an issue with them. I also use Magnto and WordPress a lot. I've got involved with a number of open-source projects through the years - it really is a neat concept.
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