Tim wrote:
Though, those others have the hardware vendor write drivers (often badly) for specific systems. Outside of those systems, you're screwed (particular versions of Windows, or differing hardware - PPC, Intel, etc.). There's probably quite a few of us that bought some made-for-Windows hardware (sound card, graphics card, etc.), that never worked right from the get go. The next update or two didn't really fix it, and there wasn't a third update. So I don't give much credence to the "things are easier on Windows" mantra.
I've never said that things are easier on Windows, but I will concede that they have been stable for at least the time span between Win2ksp2 (perhaps even NTsp6a) through everything before vista.
But I would say that "things are easier on a Mac" where things also don't require source and do work across the relevant CPU lines.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
