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OK, I'm curious: DVD playback is definitely a bit of a fiddle (mostly for legal reasons), and I've heard of wifi problems (although I understand most recent chipsets work)... but wired network drivers? I've never heard about problems with wired networking, and none of the computers I've installed Linux on has ever had a problem with it.

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It was a Thinkpad from around 1999, and my ethernet stopped working after an Ubuntu upgrade, sometime around kernel 2.6.8 if I remember correctly. I'm sure there'd have been a fix if I'd found the right forum or IRC channel, but having lived through Gentoo and Debian installs, by then I had simply stopped caring. Apple was making fully functional Unix desktops, which is all I really cared about, so I went and got one and that was that.

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