Comment 1083 for bug 1

Hy!

I want to share you my experience with the driver thing...

I bought an usb 3g modem... It took about five minutes to me to install it under ubuntu...

I put it in, nothing happened... so I looked it's device id with lsusb and googled for that... the solution came up and, after some copy-paste process, I can use my modem trough network manager a smooth way integrated into the system... (what don't needed any additional configuration, what I done that to setup usb_modeswitch and udev to switch the device into the good mode if I connect it)

Some time I had to install the same device on a windows xp machine..
Windows installed about 3 or 4 drivers... then I get a virtual cd thing where I can install it's manager application what will switch the modes and manages the connections... after it's installation I had to restart windows... what first missed to switch the device somehow... after the second restart and another 4 or 5 installing hardware messages... I can used the device... that toked about 15 minutes...

Finally I installed it in windows 7... the controller application hacks it's window border (I can't see why, there isnt any special) and looks like on xp... ugly... and what worst if it runs... windows if falling back to moving windows (any) with only an empty border...

So I thank god that I can happily use it on linux and not need to deal with that shit...

The devices is supported on windows and mac... not on linux...
And if any other devices not supported on linux... it is a fault of linux, that the manufacturer is too lazy to make another driver, not only for windows?