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by noonespecial 5208 days ago
OTOH, I recently managed to fire up an old PCI "winmodem" (which used to be the bane of linux existence) and it worked instantly in Ubuntu. Windows 7 wouldn't even finish bootup with it in.

If you want to use hardware that's more than year or two old, Ubuntu is the way to go.