Anyone care to read this!

[Whitley CTR Cecil H]

Sina,
plug and play (commonly referred to as plug and pray) is supported.  I've
got several linux distributions (live cd's) which boot, auto-detect,
auto-configure and just plain work on my pc's at home.  These include from
an amd k6 300, Celeron 366, amd Athlon xp 1700+, amd 2800+, and a p4 3.4
northwood with s-ata csa pat and dual channel memory.  The only thing I am
missing from this mix is an amd-64 based system (got the p4 instead).  I've
got my boy where he will boot into knoppix to play the games, not to mention
the gentoo game cd with unreal tournament 2003.  Sound works, video works,
various usb devices (including a joystick) works, short answer - it just
works.  

Are there issues?  Sure there are, but I also have issues with xp/2k/98se,
in particular, I have to use different versions of the nvidia driver for 98
and xp.  NT 4 doesn't support my hp 2200 usb scanner, many many many
examples.  In short, one point never makes a good argument.  

As one other point, the article which started all this was about an Intel
(supposedly) sound card (built-in).  Intel is famous for their processors,
but noone would rank them as the top sound card manufacturer, not even a
popular one.  Onboard sound is okay, but of the computers I have running, I
use third party sound cards in 3/4 of them.  Intel onboard graphics suck as
well (and that's not limited to Intel, but there are exceptions).  In fact,
the exception at my house is the nforce 2 based motherboard.  Nvidia did a
decent job with their onboard graphics and sound.

Regards,

Cecil