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Universalpsykopath tugs our coat and says: Tell us about your feats of deduction and the little mysteries you've solved. Alternatively, tell us about the simple, everyday things that mystified you for far too long.

(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 12:52)
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Well,
my hardware manufacturer doesn't provide drivers. Neither, it seems, do any Linux developers.

But if that means my Hardware manufacturer doesn't like Linux, so be it. It's HP, so it's not like they're some little tinpot outfit.

Now, where were we? Oh, that's right. I can't use Linux, becuase there are no drivers for WIFI.

I'm not too stupid to resolve this - maybe I'm lazy, but writing my own drivers seems like a bit of a faff. I'll use Windows instead.
(, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:28, 1 reply)
I installed
windows 7 on a work PC, not only were there no wi-fi drivers, it didn't even install bog-standard ethernet drivers so I could get to our network and install the wi-fi driver. This was a Dell - so again, not a tin-pot company around the corner.
(, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 17:48, closed)
But I'm pretty sure you got it
solved in the end, and I doubt it took very long.

With a Linux problem, you run the gauntlet of a) forums where a bunch of skript kiddies simply can't answer a simple question without trying to impress you with their deep understanding of the OS itself, for which read incomprensible and irrelevant garbage, or b) shit flinging chimps like we have here, who also can't answer a simple question, and hide that fact by telling you you're stupid, and it's your own fault.

Result is always the same - Linux has a very low market share, becuase it's just not actually very good, or very easy to live with.
(, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:12, closed)

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