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Subject: Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Date: 27 Feb 2025 02:54:13 GMT
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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.