Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 01:58:32 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

1. A Winmodeml US Robotics I think. Could not make it work.

I remember fun times trying to get linmodem to work. It didn't help that
my ISP at the time was clueless about Linux and had no idea what I needed
to put into the expect dialog. All they knew was it magically worked for
Windows.

2. Ancient Canon printer, winprinter I suspect.

I can't remember if I ever got the Lexmark inkjet to work on Linux. It was
a $25 purchase at CostCo, toss it in the trash when the cartridges ran
out. Definitely a winprinter.  I've always hated printers and was very
pleasantly surprised when I plugged the Samsung laser printer into the
Ubuntu box and it just worked.

3. Broadcom network chips.

I hit that with Lubuntu on an old netbook. Once I got onto the net with a
USB wifi dongle and downloaded a driver, problem solved. I don't know
what's in the Panda but Lubuntu could handle it.

However afaik I've never had a Nvidia card, lean toward AMD processors,
don't have a touchscreen, don't run multiple monitors. and so forth. The
laptop has a fingerprint reader but it's Windows 11 with Fedora 42 for
WSL.