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> Or Lenovo and MS have a vast conspiracy to use disk drivers to block linux install.. That's not a vast conspiracy. That would be a pretty quotidian conspirac
by __jal 10y ago
> Or Lenovo and MS have a vast conspiracy to use disk drivers to block linux install..
That's not a vast conspiracy. That would be a pretty quotidian conspiracy. In fact, it would look a lot like the "Winmodems[1]" that were a thing before (and maybe around?) the turn of the century.
Those existed because they made machines marginally cheaper by emulating the modem in software. Which only worked on Windows and caused much gnashing of teeth back when.
I believe Winmodems came to be solely because of cost savings. I also believe that the fact that it was functional exclusively on Win was a second-order effect that approximately nobody in Redmond took issue with.
...As an aside, I'm going to assume consistency on the part of all those who are being snide about customer support folks, and assume you make a point of never calling customer support (I'm not referring to the parent poster here). After all, you can't trust anything those idiots say, so why would you bother?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmodem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmodem
- raesene9 10y agoSure I remember the old winmodem days well, but that was a well known (and very frustrating) problem, which was a stated position of the companies in question. the customer support bit and wanting to move to the next call is based on my own experience of working in support many years ago, there was a strong temptation to tell the user something to get onto the next call as that was usually your performance metric....
- __jal 10y ago> but that was a well known (and very frustrating) problem, which was a stated position of the companies in question. And I'm pretty sure it became well known due to discussions just like this, over time. There was a ton of confusion about it at the time; I'm really not in the mood to attempt to search for 20 year old nerd-grousing, but I remember it from various Linux lists at the time. And it wouldn't surprise me a bit if some CSR at Best Buy gave bad information about Winmodems, and people like me took the bad information at face value and then got in a discussion about it in some forum... And the cycle of life is complete.