Re: Take ACER Off your Linux-Friendly List

[kd4e <doc@kd4e.com>]

I don't give up quite that easily - but Acer should not be 
off the hook for
being so lazy and unhelpful toward Linux users.


>> Acer chooses with whom they sign contracts for sub-devices like wireless
>> nics.  If they had insisted on nics with Linux drivers they would have
>> received them.  Other companies have.  I already own Linux-friendly
>> b/g/n devices, so it is nothing bleeding-edge to do so.
>>
>> There are drivers out there for Atheros b/g/n nics but I don't have the
>> time to chase them down and fuss with Alpha drivers - this laptop was
>> to be a productivity tool - right now it's a defective piece of hardware.
>>
>> Since I told the salesman it was for Linux and was not warned it was
>> non-Linux compatible they will get it back.
>>
>> Manufactures need to stop wasting the time of customers and give
>> us what we want - in this economy customers are getting harder to
>> find - and Linux use is growing like crazy.
>>
> 
> send it back because you can not use it
> most people i know simply use a usb-stick (or a boot-cd)
> and buy only computer that work.
> 
> re,
>  wh

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