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Originally Posted by boyblue
There are now so many Linux versions out there which one should VIA or any other company support so you can have your laptop working.
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You don't know how linux works, do you? Via has to make a working driver for Xorg, that is the graphic server common to all linux distributions, and a driver for the Linux kernel, which has to be the same since they are all called "linux distributions".
A distribution is only a way to put the software together, the software itself is the same.
Anyway this argument is pointless. Via claims that it's supporting Linux, which is not true. Via graphic drivers are crappy on all linux distributions.
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Originally Posted by boyblue
Your computer was sold to you with XP on it, did you asked the sale person if it would run Linux any version, did you research the net about it. No I see you did not.
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I brought a via Epia mainboard, that claims to support linux. In many countries this kinds of lying is illegal, it is called "false advertising" or something like that.
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Originally Posted by boyblue
If XP runs everything you want why use linux at all, I don't get it.  |
The fact is that Xp runs nothing of what I want, but still this is a pointless argument since what I want concerns only me.
Linux users are many, Via doesn't seem to bother about them and prefers to release crappy drivers only to make a false claim to "support linux". Many Linux users, deceived by those false claims, will buy Via hardware and understand their mistake only when they try to install those "drivers". It's like selling cars without an important component inside, none shall see it from outside, only when you try to start the engine.
P.S. Via isn't forced to make a decent driver if it don't want or maybe can't. There is another choice: Via can release the hardware specs to the opensource community that has some pretty good programmers who whould put up a decent driver in no time.