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https://bbs.archlinux.org – bohoomil wrote:@gm112 -- I think a little bit of technical awareness is in most cases enough to get things up and running under Linux. Lousy hardware support is not anything Linux exclusive, and during years of my computing I collected quite a few pieces of outboard gear that either came with buggy drivers or were designed for a particular Windows release and thus could be 'scrapped' as soon as the computer got upgraded. In the long run, I find Linux safer for hardware, and so would probably many novice Linux users if they only tried to change their (shopping) habits a tiny bit.Indee (HowTos)

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