Linux: Low end capable does not mean inferior
One of the things that Microsoft has been silently beating Linux over the head with for the past couple of years is that, since Linux works so well on older, and lower end PC's, it is an inferior, obsolete, and outdated OS. I find FUD like this to be a bit annoying, as the inverse is true of Windows. An OS that is so bloated, resource hungry, and restrictive that it can only run on high end PC's does not mean it's a superior OS. In fact, I'd say that's quite the opposite.
This seems to be a false fact that Microsoft loves to try and convince everyone of. Yet it is anything but true. Sure, Linux doesn't necessarily have bleeding edge drivers for bleeding edge hardware right immediately after release, and it's got some parts of its overall superstructure that needs to be updated to come up to current standards, but that's true with every OS. Even Windows is as guilty of that in the same areas as they claim Linux is. The lack of current, properly designed drivers is less the fault of any one particular OS as it is the device manufacturers. They're ultimately responsible for creating drivers for their own hardware, assuming the drivers aren't either open source or outsourced.
Yet the Redmond brainwashing ad campaign would have us believe that it's the responsibility of the OS to be superior in every way.
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