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So the author looked at HP site, saw that some hardware is not officialy supported by HP on Win7 and is on Linux... and he drew the conclusion that Linux HW sup
by Mavrik 15y ago
So the author looked at HP site, saw that some hardware is not officialy supported by HP on Win7 and is on Linux... and he drew the conclusion that Linux HW support is better?
That's a biased and wrong conclusion even for a person with no contact with basic statistic methodologies.
- bryanlarsen 15y agoIncorrect methodology, yes. But it's the right conclusion. Linux supports a lot more hardware than Windows 7 does. During the Windows XP -> Vista transition, Windows dropped support for a lot of hardware. Linux didn't do so, and therefore has support for a lot of obsolescent hardware, like the photosmart printer mentioned in the article. So yes, Linux has a lot better support for hardware that very few people care about. If you add together the support that Windows XP + Windows 7 + Windows CE + Windows Mobile etc have, you might come close to the Linux support, but there's only one genre of Linux. Even if you don't buy that argument, realize that Linux runs on tens of different platforms in millions of different configurations, ranging from $10 embedded devices to $100 phones to $100 million supercomputers, and supports the peripherals connected to these devices.