Lol, Amateur. Wait until you have something that's tricky to install even with the Windows driver CD it came with and go to install SUSE expecting a battle with the Kernel to get it loaded and see that before the thing is even finished it's popped up saying it found new hardware and it's ready to go and it actually works.

I have a USB DVD / CD burner combo drive here that in Windows barely works at all. I can't even get it to properly burn anything. Now, on my laptop, I had a CD for the DVD drive so it could play DVDs and stuff.

The CD cracked. Can't install now. So I grabbed a Slackware install disk, installed, and now I can watch DVDs anyway. I don't need a disk.

And that drive that burns and doesn't work in Windows? Instead of spending an hour looking for a good CD burner program or DVD burning application, I just hooked it up, turned it on, and when I checked it had mounted itself and, well, if you've ever burned an ISO in Windows it's not as easy....But on SUSE Linux, with KDE, I double clicked the ISO, it popped up K3B, checked the MD5 Sum for me, and then I clicked on "Start" and it went.

In Windows the same task starts with making sure the drive works, which it doesn't, even though it isn't even listed as supported in Linux, it DOES. Then when you want to burn an ISO, you have to find some software to do that, and then in Nero I know there is another step to make it burn the image file right, and in Linux, I double click and click on start lol.

Don't get me started on my Sound Card in my server. In Windows it takes TWO reboots and a CD to work. In Linux it takes.... Well it detects it on boot and works out of the box...

By The way if anyone is wondering why it takes TWO reboots for a Sound Card, well, when you install Windows and boot up for the first time, it finds all that hardware and tries to make it work asking for disks and stuff, and then you need to reboot for the first portion of the hardware before it even gets to the soundcard, where once you have that done, you install the driver from a CD, then reboot AGAIN, and it finally works.

By the way, if you're shocked this worked on hardware, wait until you see there aren't any service packs and that the ONLY rebooting you need to do are for Kernel updates.

Heh I still remember the first time I got online with Linux, I was like crap I have to download all these updates and....Do I reboot? I was so used to Windows I was rebooting in between until someone started laughing at me on a mailing list.

I also stopped down loading updates after the first one. Why? Because a little icon popped up and said updates were ready and asked if I wanted to look at them first..... This was before XP had that ability so I didn't understand it to well but it worked.