[ Thanks to Larry J.
Blunk for this link. ]
“My own experience has uncovered a host of problems that
Microsoft and Apple licked years ago. Since I added Linux to a
computer at home, I find I can’t make my cable modem work because
the device that connects it to my PC won’t work with Linux. I can’t
make my standard-issue laser printer work because — contrary to
the assertions of the point-and-click interface in the
configuration settings — Linux does not know it is there.”
“I have the same problems with my PC’s sound, since the
“sndconfig” program designed to handle that part of the computer
isn’t working either. It’s so not working, in fact, it doesn’t even
have the good graces to give me an error message when I try to
start it up.”
“This, by the way, is a fairly common trait of Linux software.
Sophisticated programmers, after all, don’t want to spend time on
things like warning messages when there are so many more urgent
matters to address.”