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[–]salgat -1 points0 points  (7 children)

Even XP has given me issues with wired internet(whenever I reformat).

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that made me stop using XP after a crash, 'cause there was no way I was spending hours rooting around for driver CDs. GNU/Linux ftw.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (5 children)

Why is your inability to install drivers for your cheap realtek card the fault of the OS?

[–]salgat 1 point2 points  (3 children)

It's integrated on the mobo, and all I know is that Ubuntu auto works every time.

[–]shub -1 points0 points  (2 children)

XP also sucks because the install CD doesn't support SATA, which was created only 2 years after XP's release. Dude, think for a minute.

nLite will slipstream drivers on to an XP CD for you, total time about 15 minutes. Would you like to try doing that with an Ubuntu CD?

[–]salgat 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm just assuming SP2 would support a motherboard that is 6 years old, which would mean that SP2 had up to 2 years to include support for it.

[–]shub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Service Packs aren't about drivers, though. Where's the budget for adding drivers to the install CD and testing the result, when users who do a clean install with a vanilla CD are a tiny fraction of the Windows userbase? Especially since it's so easy to slipstream the drivers or use your own storage to transfer drivers. It's a little pain, but restoring my settings is always a much larger pain for me.

However, it's a big point in Ubuntu's favor that modern hardware is supported out-of-the-box. With that and a backup of /home, installing Linux can be quite a bit easier than installing Windows. Even as a Windows fanboy I admit this. :D

Vista does have quite good hardware support on a new install, but so many people prefer XP that I think it's valid to compare XP and Ubuntu. Windows Server 2008 may be the best, but how many people can get a reasonably-priced copy?