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First Impressions of Freespire 1.0
Nate writes "Freespire 1.0 was released a few days ago, taking the desktop-oriented Linspire distribution and making it freely available (as in beer) to the world. Linux Format has some first impressions of the release, focusing on its much-trumpeted media playback facilities thanks to codec licensing. Flash, Java, DVD and WMV support out-the-box — could this climb to the top of the desktop distro ladder?"
Linux/open-source people keep saying "choices are good"... Well, it's not.
If you overload people with choices, they won't know what to choose and they'll go back with what they know, even if it's not even half as good as all these new options. How could they know their current stuff is crap, they can't use the new ones because there's too many choices.
Why so many distros anyway? Shouldn't there be two or three distros at most? One for servers, one for desktops.... I can't even figure out what a third distro could possibly be...
Seriously, stop it with all the distros already. And close 99% of them. Unless you're telling me that all these distros run the exact same binaries and all of them don't need anything compared to the others...
Linux distros, KDE vs Gnome, static vs linked, compiling programs.... And you think Joe Street will switch to Linux? If he ever gets fed up with Windows, he's going to switch to a Mac or stop using computers alltogether (I've seen it happen more than once).