[mdlug] Linux push an economic phenomenon?

[Garry Stahl]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> "never" is a very long time.  I recall when LINUX on the desktop was
> tricky and LINUX on the laptop was dicey.  But that is *not* currently
> true.  I use LINUX on a laptop as my primary machine - everything works
> out-of-the-box.  No fiddling with X, no kernel compiling.  It has pretty
> much worked out-of-the-box for the last three to four years [assuming
> you purchased hardware with the intention of running LINUX - if you just
> try to throw it on whatever you have lying around I am certain your
> experience will be quite different].
>   
Never began in 2004 when with a box of Suse 8.2 I defenestrated windows
and turned my Gateway into a Linux box.  Maybe I have just been lucky,
but I have gotten a good install of every machine I have.


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