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   From: Laszlo Lebrun    
   Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:38:12 +0100   
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   SINNER wrote:   
      
   >> Tried everything, there's just no driver.   
   >> Period. And that's the case for a lot of people. And that will change in   
   >> a not too long time, I guess.   
   >    
   That will change if enough noobs are working with linux, buying new Hardware   
   and bringing it back to the shop if it has no driver.   
      
   > It will only change if you bug the hardware manufacturers.    
   It will only change, if the users bring non-compliant hardware back.   
      
      
   >> So I say the people I work: stay with XP,   
   >> don't buy Vista (when it's for sale here), and if you buy new hardware:   
   >> buy something that's gonna work on Linux.   
   >    
   > Yup.   
   >    
   How will they know?   
      
   >> Maybe we have a different description what a 'average' user is. I follow   
   >> some Ubuntu/Linux-forums, and most of the people there already know   
   >> something about computers. Maybe not about Linux, but most of the time   
   >> they do know something about Windows.   
   >    
   > Yes, they know how to point a mouse and click a button blindly.   
   >    
   The average users aren't in fora. Only the last decile is there.   
      
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