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Old 12-02-2012, 01:01 PM   #298
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
And though this is off topic, the problem with linux is there are/were too many factions and no central coordination. The reason O/S's succeed is because they have one common implementation and there are no configuration/installation issues. This just simply isn't true of Linux. Red Hat probably came the closest to make it standard but ....
Another big issue was the lack of official drivers. I can't count the times I had to do manual surgery in the xorg.conf file to fix my broken display. Things have improved vastly, but it's not foolproof yet.
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