What Operating System?

[OneRedArmy]

Gavin, on a previous thread you rubbished user of MacOS and recommended that Ubuntu would fit most users needs.

Now that BGR has found conflicts in some of the most common apps/peripherals can you not realise that open source is not the answer for everyone.

Plug and play has a certain attraction for those of us who don't have the time or know how to surf the web every time we run into a conflict.

[GavinZac]

Gavin, on a previous thread you rubbished user of MacOS and recommended that Ubuntu would fit most users needs.

Now that BGR has found conflicts in some of the most common apps/peripherals can you not realise that open source is not the answer for everyone.

Plug and play has a certain attraction for those of us who don't have the time or know how to surf the web every time we run into a conflict.

Err, I'd ask BGR to try installing OSX on his computer and see what happens. It won't work. It doesn't work, because OSX is so limited that it will only work with the select hardware that Apple chooses to support and produce; therefore the users are forced into buying the
overpriced crap that Apple come out with.

iPods are supported á la "Plug and Play" (strange that a Mac users would demand a Windows slogon of a Linux distro). His sound card, well, if it was a "common peripheral" it would be supported straight away. Every sound card, from basic laptop one to 7.1 surround sound, that I've installed Linux over has worked perfectly and I'd imagine I'm into the double figures on that count now. Having seen pretty much nothing of the issue I can't comment very much as the issue could be anything from him having an obscure sound card, to just having muted it and not knowing where to look. That is what www.ubuntuforums.org is for. I'd imagine as a long time Foot.ie user he'd be well able for that forum, from a technical point of view :S