You might buy 10,000 and never have a problem, but the two I have do both have problems.or at least appear to in the hardware environment in which they operate. Whether it is the drives themselves at this point I'm not certain. Since the time this thread started, I'm having troubles with Both MY particular LG drives. Reading further, you would see that I also commented that I do (or did at this point) like LG DVD drives. The forum gave people with differing views than mine a chance to make a rebuttal and state THEIR experience. Just like people say 'I'm going back to Windows.Ubuntu is garbage' and so forth. The heading instead was a reflection of my frustration with them AT That Time. If I could change my heading, it would read 'LG does not list LINUX as a supported Operating System'. Anytime you have 'public' gatherings, whether they be bars or forums, opinions will always be present. If you read in a forum that jumping off a 10 story building with no safety devices is loads of fun.please don't take it as necessarily true. You have to take the thread in CONTEXT to the situation AT THE TIME and realize that forums are not necessarily places to go for 100% factual, scientifically validated information. If LG contacted me personally, it would not change those facts.

So it seemed logical, at least to me at the time, to make the statement I did. The 'Avoid' headline (which I cannot alter but would if possible), was based on the fact that I could not get it to work on Ubuntu 8.10 at the time AND the OS was not listed as supported.

I even included a screenshot of their website. Regardless of any Linux distro's capability (At the time) to find the device and or properly set it up so it would work, I was MERELY POINTING OUT that they did not INCLUDE LINUX (at that time) as a SUPPORTED OS on their website. If you read the thread, it clearly states why.because LG listed the OS's that the LG DVD writer I had would work with and while numerous OS's were listed.LINUX was not.

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