unfortunate.
it is the case that newer stuff doesn't get immediate support. the reason for this is that companies release their drivers for windows only when they bring out a new piece of kit, in linux, the drivers tend to be written and maintained purely by users. If nobody who owns a particular piece of kit has submitted a driver to the kernel maintainers yet then there won't be any support for it.
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Most of my internal stuff(mb, hard drive, videocard, soundcard, & CDRW drive) aren't comaptbiile at all.
this does sound a bit odd to me, it really does, as does your RAID thing. i wonder if something more serious than just outdated drivers isn't going on here. As a matter of course i would say try red hat instead of mandrake but that's not really a solution, and mandrake shouldn't be having huge problems with hard drives etc.
as for "is it better to run MS than linux" probably not, and i will tell you why: usually if hardware is not supported, the number of people out there contributing to linux means that usually your kit will become supported pretty quickly. People used to microsoft 2-5 year schedules find this hard to believe, but often it can take maybe days, weeks or at the outside, months to support a particular piece of hardware, except where the manifacturer has deliberately crippled the product and emulated around the deficiencies in their (windows only) software.
At the risk of sounding inflammatory, there's not a lot anybody here can do for you unless you post actual details about your kit. it's all very well to say your motherboard doesn't work under linux, but unless you say what kind of motherboard, what kind of hard drive, what kind of joysticks etc, then it simply looks like you are bitching. If you were to say exactly what doesn't work then maybe somebody would give you a simple fix. who knows?
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