Hardware companies ought target Linux users
One thing I don’t understand is why hardware companies don’t try to market themselves to Linux users BY PROVIDING LINUX DRIVERS! Particularly wireless cards. In my opinion, drivers for Windows and Linux should be included with the product.
I say this because of a recent trip to Future Shop where I impulsively bought a wireless card for my old laptop. The girl said: “Sure it will run with Linux” and I assumed that she understood that the wireless card required a driver, and so I assumed that it had a Linux driver available. The router from the same company had Linux instructions. In any case, no go. I found all kinds of software that should have helped, but no go.
Imagine the company that ON THEIR PACKAGING and in their advertising displayed that their wireless cards were Linux compatible.
There are 151 thousand Linux computers REGISTERED.
Not only would I like it, but hardware companies really need to start opening their eyes to the fact that Windows is not the only OS they need to be thinking about, maybe the efforts they waste on making it Vista compatible can be better used to target Linux users. Just a thought.
Posted: November 28th, 2007.
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Time: November 28, 2007, 9:59 pm
I know your feeling. The same goes for all hardware like printers, scanners, etc. many people are downgrading from Vista to XP due hardware incompatibilities. For Mac users it’s backwards, they have to upgrade the OS everytime a new hardware version is released. The Linux users are growing everyday, that shows Linux as a great and economic option for all. I still thinking someday Linux or something like that will rule the world and that day hardware incompatibility will be ancient history. Ha. ;)
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