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[News] Myth and Fiction: Windows Can be a Pain, Linux is Not

Microsoft vs Common Sense

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| Ubuntu took 20 minutes to install. Hardware worked fine, my analog TV
| tuner (Hauppauge WinTV Pro) and webcam (Logitech something) worked out
| of the box, without installing any custom drivers. I installed MythTV,
| worked perfectly, except that I had to reconfigure X a bit to use the
| proper video displaying mode.
| 
| Windows MCE used 55 minutes to install. Webcam didn't work. Custom
| drivers didn't help. Seems to be broken. When I started the
| preinstalled MCE interface, which looks quite fancy by the way, it
| told me that my TV tuner was unsupported, because it was analog. I
| had to buy a tuner with MPEG encoding. And probably it would only
| work well when I bought the special Windows MCE tuner kit. This was
| the point where I stopped using Windows. It sucks.
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http://web1337.net/?loc=home&article_id=28

What you should know about switching to Ubuntu from Windows

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| Are you ready to take the plunge? It can be hard to decide, particularly
| if you're a longtime Windows user. The Windows camp makes the idea
| seem absurd, and the Ubuntu camp is full of people talking about
| things you've never heard of.
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http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=1091

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