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Hi
Generally people always look for some thing out of the box.. What ever it may be. OS is also the same. MS have a strategy of giving whatever people want and they get good backup also from all the Equipment manufacturers. It is a fact that OS and drivers will grow by complimenting each other. meaning, Equipment manufacturer will develop their drivers for most popular OS and people will prefer to buy OS which has more driver support - out of the box. This is the basic strategy. In case of linux it is not possible - meaning we cannot have a single linux to which every one 'should' focus on.
I guess once the Linux driver project comes to a stable level, things will improve. The way Kernel is being developed, if drivers are also going to be a central development team, then all the flavours can take the drivers project and attach to their distribution. The difference is going to be only look and feel - but still compatibility and all will be much better.
I like linux - b'se it gives tremendous opportunity for people to learn invent and grow ...