On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:01, loyal_barber <loyal_barber@
> Boy have I got good news for you! In Linux, you don't have to go
> around searching for drivers! This ain't windoze! In Linux we do
> things a bit different. For example, if you go with Ubuntu or
> Linux Mint (my favourite) you will find that when you install one
> of these, all of your devices will just work. Let your local shop
> know that you intend to put Linux on the system and they will stay
> away from anything that won't work, but those hardware pieces are
> pretty rare or really old.
Caveat: this applies to probably 95% of hardware... there are a couple
cases here and there where you may have issues... though as Loyal
implies, these issues are quickly becoming a memory...
For example, in Ubuntu 9.10, you had to do some restricted driver
installs to get some Broadcom wireless cards working. Lucid (10.04
coming soon) does a better job of taking care of this problem for you
though...
So yeah, I'll +1 what Loyal says... AND to add another bit of icing,
Linux runs amazingly well on older hardware too, though feature creep
is causing modern Linux systems to require more and more resources by
default (for example, there aren't many distros out there that are
current AND will run on a system with < 256MB of ram...)
So that's something to keep in mind. Linux is equally great for
cheap, used computers and for shiny new ones.
Cheers,
Jeff
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