Today i got into a heated debate. This kid brought his new dell system for me to fix his wireless in ubuntu. Howeverhe has a wireless N card… using a new chipset as N cards are still fairly new / non standard as i’m sure you know without how the hardware vendors are relative to linux it takes forever for the developers to make drivers as they gotta reverse engineer the windows drivers to developer linux version or extend ndiswrapper with the abiity to utilize the windows drivers for the card.

Now another person that was there (very closed minded windows user might i add which you will see from his responses / stance) who only uses windows and nothing more. started his bullshit. ” oh i know why its not worrking because linux is shit” so i try to expliain what i just said. He says still its because linux is stupid and things just dont work as they do in windows “trying to speak sense to him just didn’t seem to work” so i gave up.. I really hate speaking to people like that. Despite getting a logical answer they still hold on to thier ridiculous notions..

he then asks why is it that the vendors only give mirosoft drivers as of to say, Clearly its because windows is better. I stated because its the more popular operating system. Howeveer he vendors aren’t that smart because if they developed for both operating system they have more to gain and nothing to lose actually. more users would end up using / buying their devices as linux users would then trusst the device becaause they know they wont have headaches to get it to work. Also tried to explian that when the vendors ddothings like that it stifles the growth of linux (a completely free and ever changing and now with ubuntu extremely user friendly to the point where basic users might be able to comfortably use it) still at the end of all that “linux is rubbish and things just dont work” i didn’t know what else to say. I just stopped arguing as it was like trying to out fire with gasoline. Explained to the guy with the laptop that he probably wont have wifi for another few weeks and called it a day.

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