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Re:Gnome cofounder: Desktop Linux is a Chernobyl of Fail by dylangs1030 on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @11:44PM (#5329366)
True - to an extent. But things bend or break still. A lot of things don't work out of the box - video, audio, etc.

And it's still an absolute pain to configure webcam drivers and make audio work 100% of the time.

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Re:Gnome cofounder: Desktop Linux is a Chernobyl of Fail by camus on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @11:58PM (#5329422)
How do OSX manages to make make external sound devices or cameras work out of the box by the way ? i'm a musician and it is always a pain to install a new sound card on Windows , on Mac , you just plug it and it works...
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Re:Gnome cofounder: Desktop Linux is a Chernobyl of Fail by na85 on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @12:02AM (#5329442)
OSX has a very narrow band of hardware and peripherals to worry about supporting, so they can afford to spend person-hours on device drivers and compatibility layers.
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