Re:A small town that kept Walmart out now faces Amazon
by zaarn on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:48AM
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Microsoft pays good money to vendors to improve the hardware for windows.
Outside of hardware primarly used under Linux, you won't have much luck paying any vendor money to improve that situation. You'll have to suck it up and make it work anyway by patching the kernel.
>Linux it will run on whatever terrible machine you got on sale at Walmart with a Vista certified sticker.
Vista? I have upgraded people to Linux with 98 stickers and earlier. These people won't buy new machines, the current machine will have to work.
There won't be a "next computer" for some of them.
Free software development time is finite and information on some hardware is notably absent.
If you desire better support pool money to pay for improvements to particular hardware. Anything else is hoping people are willing to expend their resources for free so that you don't have to.
In the meantime I'm guessing most people intend to eventually buy a new machine. Upgrade time is a great time to think about trying Linux. Instead of
Linux it will run on whatever terrible machine you got on sale at Walmart with a Vista certified sticker.
Think instead...
Make your next computer a Linux machine.