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Originally Posted by philip.j.fry
Horses for courses. It's all down to a personal preference whether you think Linux or Windows can do things better than it's alternative. It's a red herring to compare Linux with Windows anyway, the only fair way to do with it is to compare individual distributions as Linux is only the kernel. On the usability stakes it's a bit unfair to lump say Fedora and Gentoo together. Perhaps some people feel that this is the problem, that there is too much confusion over the choices in Linux distros. I would disagree with that and would be mortified if everything revolved around one single distribution and window manager.
Personally, I find my Slackware and Fedora core systems to be far more usable and flexible than XP because it suits my way of working. If you think Windows would be a better choice for you, then use it. The world would after all be a more boring place if we were all the same.
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Hmm, what version were you using? I tested Hoary Hedgehog 64bit (the most recent) and it had no problems with any of those things (except the wheel as I don't have one, and my wireless network as it is a daughterboard rather than a pci card).
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Whatever the latest 64bit version is. I started tinkering with NDISwrapper to get the wireless networking up and running but decided that it really shouldn't be such a kerfuffle installing a card that was automatically installed and configured during a Windows XP 64 install, drivers installation should go, download, double click setup.exe and it's working, I never had to do anything else with any of my hardware under windows and I'm certainly not going to fanny about in a console under *nix.