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Originally Posted by sanddrag
was wondering, how do things like drivers for network cards work in Linux? Does it just work or do you need to get special drivers from somewhere?
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The only thing what is likely to give you driver problems are wireless cards based off of broadcom chipsets (most linksys products). To use them you must use NDISwrapper which allows you to run windows drivers under linux. Everything else should just work except printers which usually need configuring. Also, if you have a wide format screen, you may need to do some tweaking to take advantage of its native resolution.
As for Ubuntu and other "totally" free OSes, it takes a mild amount of work to get things like MP3s, and most video codecs to work. The developers don't include them because they are not free software.
I have always used Fedora Core and never had in problems with it. I think its more of a matter of personal opinion than anything. To some extent i think people overplay the impact a certian distro will have in being able to learn linux.