Nuno Magalhães wrote:
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:29, godo <goran@dobosevic.com> wrote:Sure, but first you have to take care at least of these issues: * proprietary drivers (if applicable and/or needed) * multimedia stuff (add debian-multimedia repos) * backports for: - wicd or network-manager (if applicable, especially since network-manager in lenny is too old) - flashplugin-nonfree - newer apps if needed (OOo, ...) Regards, AndreiOf course but it is necessary step with Windows or any other OS also. But after that anybody can update with Synaptic.No. In windows this is 100% transparent to the user, since all the hardware vendors provide all the drivers.
Correct, but that doesn't mean that drivers will perfectly work and easy to install and configure for average user.
Seldom does a winuser have
to do any hardware config or so much as use the installation CD.Windows update will do it for them.
Unless Windows update broke your Windows :-) Remember SP2 and SP3 on XP? Or your Vista think that Lenovo WiFi drivers are evil and block them. (Correct me if i'm wrong but
didn't Red Hat some 10years ago have a tray icon for updates like XP now does?)
I wish i know before 10y what is Red Hat! -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414