Comment 98 for bug 1

This bug is widely spread here in Bulgaria too. The problem concerns not only PCs but addon hardware too. For example several months ago i went to a PC store to buy a TV card. I asked if it was supported in linux and the answer i got was "The drivers on the disc will do all the job". Needless to say there were no drivers for linux on the disc which meant that the salesman didn`t know about linux or didn`t care about it (luckly i managed to get the card working very easily). Apparently this is the salesmen`s generic answer when asked about linux because when later i went to buy a MP3 player and asked if it would work with linux i got the same reply - "The drivers on the disk will do the job". The problem is especially serious in our educational program. All the computers in our schools are with Windows installed by deffault and most of the teachers either don`t care about linux or don`t know much about it. I`ve heard of several cases when students tried to persuade their teachers to use open source OS in school with little or no success. There are however exceptions. For example several months ago i attended to a conference about open source software in a school in my home town Sliven and there seemed to be great interest both from the students and from the teachers. So there is hope after all that this bug wil be solved.