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> The true beauty of Linux is the way that the OS improves over time. Problems are ironed out, and legacy hardware support is often ongoing. I think this is uni

> The true beauty of Linux is the way that the OS improves over time. Problems are ironed out, and legacy hardware support is often ongoing. I think this is unique to Linux. I'm sorry, but the statement that linux improves over time, and thay's unique to linux has really no basis in reality. Both Windows and MacOS do improve over time, we could argue which of those three does the best job, but I don't really think linux would be the winner in that comparison either. I don't have any experience with other OSes than those 3 mentioned, so somebody else can chip in.

lwhi 15y ago
With Windows, I've found that driver support often halts once a manufacturer has provided it's obligatory release. I think this is a limitation of the commercial closed source model that Windows (and OS X) follow. I think an open source model encourages iterative improvement which isn't tied to commercial product releases. This was the basis for my comment.
- mkr-hn 15y ago
  Is that an issue outside of video drivers?
- selectnull 15y ago
  I agree with you that open source model should (and often does) solves problems with hardware support, at least in theory. Then again, my bluetooth on linux simply refuses to work, no matter what I do (while on the same hardware windows never had any problems). Your original comment was a little bit ambiguous: you were primarily thinking of legacy hardware support as in "legacy hardware support is often ongoing". I read the first part of the sentence "Problems are ironed out" as if that's only valid for linux, which I don't think it is.
jrockway 15y ago
But legacy hardware support doesn't improve in OS X. Try upgrading your PowerPC-based machine to Lion. Now try running Linux 3.0rc on, let's say, an aging SPARC 5 workstation. Just Works.
- selectnull 15y ago
  You're right, there are examples, probably many where you will show linux supports hardware better than osx or windoze. But hey, I use linux for the last two years for all my desktop computing (and more for servers). I love it and find it superior to windows. Except my bluetooth doesn't work: and it did with windows. C'est la vie, I guess...

lwhi 15y ago

With Windows, I've found that driver support often halts once a manufacturer has provided it's obligatory release. I think this is a limitation of the commercial closed source model that Windows (and OS X) follow. I think an open source model encourages iterative improvement which isn't tied to commercial product releases. This was the basis for my comment.

mkr-hn 15y ago
Is that an issue outside of video drivers?
selectnull 15y ago
I agree with you that open source model should (and often does) solves problems with hardware support, at least in theory. Then again, my bluetooth on linux simply refuses to work, no matter what I do (while on the same hardware windows never had any problems). Your original comment was a little bit ambiguous: you were primarily thinking of legacy hardware support as in "legacy hardware support is often ongoing". I read the first part of the sentence "Problems are ironed out" as if that's only valid for linux, which I don't think it is.

jrockway 15y ago

But legacy hardware support doesn't improve in OS X. Try upgrading your PowerPC-based machine to Lion. Now try running Linux 3.0rc on, let's say, an aging SPARC 5 workstation. Just Works.

selectnull 15y ago
You're right, there are examples, probably many where you will show linux supports hardware better than osx or windoze. But hey, I use linux for the last two years for all my desktop computing (and more for servers). I love it and find it superior to windows. Except my bluetooth doesn't work: and it did with windows. C'est la vie, I guess...