How silly to blame Asus. It's a makreting decision. Is it Asus fault that Linux doesn't have the level of driver/device support and Windows ? Is it Asus fault that all sorts of widely used s/w is Windows only ?
When someone goes to a PC shop and picks up any random software or some deviant hardware with some necessary driver CD, there is a 99% probability it won't run on Linux without a struggle.
You can't blame the hardware and s/w mfgrs for catering to 95% of the end-user market first either.
The problem is that *we* Linux advocates have failed. We haven't convinced enough ppl to give up MS products. I belong to a local Linux user's group and I am ALWAYS stunned at how many users still use Windows, and try to be Win compatible. We aren't we all comlplaining when the government has non-competitive bids for systems with OS, or when they distribute and keep information in proprietary formats.
Another problem ... in recent years I se a lot of "me too" packages with Linux trying to keep up with Win products, but not so many differentiating packages or features. Why switch to Linux if it's similar but not compatible. We need a killer app that doesn't run on Win ... but that's hard to come by.
When someone goes to a PC shop and picks up any random software or some deviant hardware with some necessary driver CD, there is a 99% probability it won't run on Linux without a struggle.
You can't blame the hardware and s/w mfgrs for catering to 95% of the end-user market first either.
The problem is that *we* Linux advocates have failed. We haven't convinced enough ppl to give up MS products. I belong to a local Linux user's group and I am ALWAYS stunned at how many users still use Windows, and try to be Win compatible. We aren't we all comlplaining when the government has non-competitive bids for systems with OS, or when they distribute and keep information in proprietary formats.
Another problem ... in recent years I se a lot of "me too" packages with Linux trying to keep up with Win products, but not so many differentiating packages or features. Why switch to Linux if it's similar but not compatible. We need a killer app that doesn't run on Win ... but that's hard to come by.
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