Originally Posted by
the_eternal_dark
I do agree about the hardware support for any of the *nix systems is kinda crap, but that is mainly in the drivers for the hardware, and in almost every case its the manufacturer's fault, not the OS. And really, it's not the manufacturer's intention to ignore any OS's other than Windows, it's in Windows where they make their money, which is where many people in the home computing and business cubicle computing are most experienced with using, and many companies follow what makes them money the easy way, targeting the largest user base. That and the lack of specs on the specific hardware that has no *nix drivers makes it difficult for anyone to reverse engineer and build their own drivers.