[Porsche-O-Phile]

There's a lot of support out there for Linux - problem is you have to dig for a lot of it. There's only so much companies like RedHat or Mandrake can do to bundle the stuff in easy, ready-to-use packages for most "average" users that would rather just pop in a few CDs and be up-and-running. There are literally billions of possible combinations for what a particular user might have on their PC for peripherals, hardware, etc. To try and come up with an OS that supports them all directly via drivers is very difficult. I think in the case of RedHat they try to target the most common 50-60% of stuff people might have, which works for most but certainly there are going to be SOME users that tear their hair out trying to find such-and-such a driver for their thingamawhatsy peripheral.