"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:11:59 -0000, "thunder"
wrote:

Linux has come a long way.

And it has a long way to go.

The problem is that 99.9% of web sites, consumer hardware accessories
and consumer software are designed for the MS/Windows environment. If
it works fine, if not, you are on your own in the wild west.

Linux will always be in catch up mode.

That said, I recently down loaded a Knoppix disk and was pleasantly
surprised in most respects. It didn't support any of my WiFi adapters
however, or my USB thumb drive.


Seems like many of the Microsoft alternatives are not totally compatible
with IE, even browsers. I was using Firefox for a while and liked it, but
there were many things it could not display. Some were cured with plug-ins
but some still don't have a supporting plug-in. My website's main page has
a goofy spider that walks around the screen. When viewing in Firefox it is
stuck in the corner. Also I set some transitions that fade out, fade in,
etc. when you go from page to page. They don't work in Firefox.

Eisboch