From Linux To Windows

Well I just got rid an old laptop of mine that I had been running Protech ONE which is a security based distro which is forked off of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. I just spent the last 3 hours trying to find drivers for said laptop for WINDOWS not Linux. The machine was a Toshiba Satellite a105 4244 funny thing was I could not get the wireless to work the Ethernet to work or the graphics card to set it to the right screen resolution.

I mean I’m talking about a machine that was built specifically for Microsoft Windows Xp Pro and if it had not been for having a program called driver detective I would have probably been able to put the copy of xp that I had for this computer back on So heres the really big kicker though. When People say Linux is tough and no drivers and what not Funny thing was all the things that Xp did detect or find the drivers for Linux already did “out of the Box” detect it not to shabby for a open source Operating system. Now after this I truly remember why I limit the amount I must use windows my primary box boots between xp and ubuntu 7.10. So if ya got stories lets hear em.