@pathogen Direct X 10.1 does not offer anything related into gaming... it's more for CAD and stuff like that... And anything that Direct X10.1 (which is like 3-4 features) can be done with the video card alone, even a Geforce 8800 can do it.
@Pochi well if the disto comes with the driver then i would have to do nothing at all. but with windows no mater what WLAN card you use you have to install drivers
@vosester: Totally untrue. Installing things in Vista is actually incredibly easy...almost as easy as a Mac. All you do is plug the card in, wait for the system to do a hardware scan (seconds) and it'll locate a driver for you. When did Linux do that? And if you're relying on the distro to contain all your drivers, what kinda bloated release are you using? Ubuntu?? :P
Vista hahahah You use windows DRM, err Vista and you calling Ubuntu bloated for god's sake.
All good wireless card in Ubuntu will works because most of the drivers are in the kernel and modules are only a few hundred Kilobyte's compared to the 10MB+ windows drives (mostly installers take up the space)
I not say in it has been easy with linux and WLAN cards. But Linux has been brilliant in this department consider most manufacturers won't release there specification.
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Srsly is Dx10.1 that complicated?
It relies on Windows, so yes.
@barry99705
Install your wireless card in Windows.
Now install it in Linux.
Now you tell me which is complicated.
@ barry
Imagine the pain with a Broadcom Wireless card....Its bad.
@pathogen
Direct X 10.1 does not offer anything related into gaming... it's more for CAD and stuff like that... And anything that Direct X10.1 (which is like 3-4 features) can be done with the video card alone, even a Geforce 8800 can do it.
@Pochi
well if the disto comes with the driver then i would have to do nothing at all.
but with windows no mater what WLAN card you use you have to install drivers
@vosester
So basically what you are saying is, "if I don't have to install it, it's really easy!"
No shit...!
@vosester:
My Netgear card was automatically detected and installed when vista was. You fail, sir.
@vosester: Totally untrue. Installing things in Vista is actually incredibly easy...almost as easy as a Mac. All you do is plug the card in, wait for the system to do a hardware scan (seconds) and it'll locate a driver for you. When did Linux do that? And if you're relying on the distro to contain all your drivers, what kinda bloated release are you using? Ubuntu?? :P
Vista hahahah
You use windows DRM, err Vista and you calling Ubuntu bloated
for god's sake.
All good wireless card in Ubuntu will works because most of the drivers
are in the kernel and modules are only a few hundred Kilobyte's compared
to the 10MB+ windows drives (mostly installers take up the space)
I not say in it has been easy with linux and WLAN cards.
But Linux has been brilliant in this department consider most
manufacturers won't release there specification.