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with ubuntu, situtation is better, one rarely need to fight with binary, almost everything just work

Yeah.

Ubuntu is starting to get really nice for installing and it just working. I install LXDE after installed Ubuntu, then get back to work.

I've been running Ubuntu almost primarily since the start of 2006, with it being my main OS for over a year now. I have found Ubuntu to be perfect for my needs..

True - to an extent. But things bend or break still. A lot of things don't work out of the box - video, audio, etc.

And it's still an absolute pain to configure webcam drivers and make audio work 100% of the time.

How do OSX manages to make make external sound devices or cameras work out of the box by the way ? i'm a musician and it is always a pain to install a new sound card on Windows , on Mac , you just plug it and it works...

OSX has a very narrow band of hardware and peripherals to worry about supporting, so they can afford to spend person-hours on device drivers and compatibility layers.

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