"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.


I've spent plenty of time accessing the web from a friend's Linux machine. I
didn't have any problems with perhaps 20-30 sites.