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it'll be up and running before that sweet New Technology Smell has dissipated.

Well Ill give him this, if you buy bleeding edge stuff chances are it wont work in most Linux distros without knowing what you are doing. This is not a technical limitation of Linux in any way the vendors just don't bother to write Linux drivers, and wont release their specs to opensource programmers who would write them..

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This is not a technical limitation of Linux in any way the vendors just don't bother to write Linux drivers, and wont release their specs to opensource programmers who would write them..

I know that, you know that, but for most folks, it doesn't matter - it doesn't work, and that's that. End-users don't generally care why it doesn't work.