Hey Guys,

Just thought I would share my experience with Drivers for XP machines…

Early this week I decided to install Ubuntu on my Laptop, the laptop already had Windows XP on it. So my idea was to create a separate partition for Ubuntu and have a choice to dual boot at post. But sadly this was not the case. Once I had installed Ubuntu, computer restarted and I wasn’t presented with a choice, just booted straight into Ubuntu, which was not what I wanted.

I tried everything, created a boot disc to see all the partitions, sadly for some reason I was un-able to boot from CD… whether it was my laptop, or Ubuntu - I did not know!

I borrowed a XP Professional CD and formatted my laptop, and installed XP Professional. Once the installation was finished it had no drivers loaded apart from the monitor (Plug and Play) and the touch pad. So I had to find about 25 different drivers for different components. Sound, video, wi-fi everything! Took me a few hours, trying to find the latest drivers for everything. Terrible.

Why dont I get this problem with Macs? When I plug a device in, my iMac recognizes it every time. Doesn’t matter what the device is, it will still know what to do with it. Why does XP have to be different.

Its Microsoft….thats why!

Thanks,

WizzKid