I’ve been working with PC hardware and software for 13 years and I’ve seen plenty of hardware of ALL types including network adapters that couldn’t be recognized, especially by OSes more than 5 years older than the hardware.
PnP hardware “just works” with XP too, unless somebody, usually the hardware manufacturer, screwed something up.
No what he said was HIS hardware had some issues which were easily solved with provided disks with ZERO attempt to find out if an equivalent version of Linux would or would not have similar problems. Basically he did half a test made a whole bunch of assumptions about the other half of the test LIED about the general availability of drivers disks and drew a conclusion that’s not backed up. You then expanded that into XP just not working, which is claim even the assuming lying author didn’t jump to.
Ah, a Windows guy. Yes, this is VERY common with Microsoft operating systems. Much less so with other operating systems.
No what he said was HIS hardware had some issues which were easily solved with provided disks with ZERO attempt to find out if an equivalent version of Linux would or would not have similar problems.
That's just the point. Linux doesn't require "extra disks." The hardware is either supported or not. Ethernet has always been supported.
XP requires extra fiddling to get the most basic of things to work.
That's the whole point of the article.