>And, I talk about Linux popularity amongst casual users so much >because I have deliberately removed Windows from my parents' Acer >netbook and installed Linux for them and told them that it will be >better. It was taking Windows up to several minutes to start, it was >working slowly but a microphone and sound in general worked >correctly. Now, I am afraid to repeat this experiment on other >non-technical users. Domino effect really. Starts with hardware manufacturers either not supporting Linux by not publishing open source drivers or a hardware's complete specifications. (ie. Winmodems) Blaming Linux is similar to blaming consumers for not following instructions, when instructions were not provided. (And of course nowadays, consumers never have any problems with reading instructions. ;-) I'm a strong believer every piece of hardware should provide open source drivers (or at the very least, open specifications because they're being lazy) for any operating system to make use of it's hardware. (Almost similar to providing an ingredients list on food products.) Manufacturers not promoting open source are simply promoting waste, blatantly condoning and forcing users to constantly buy new hardware. (ie. Users moving from Windows XP 32 bit to Windows 7 64 bit, where closed source or proprietary hardware cannot have their drivers' source code to be recompiled against a 64 bit kernel because they're closed source or poorly licensed.) -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
