Slashdot Mirror
Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go?
inkscapee writes "Used to be Ubuntu was the big Linux hero, the shining knight that would drive Linux onto every desktop and kick bad old Windows to the curb. But now Ubuntu is the Bad Linux. What's going on, is it typical fanboy fickleness, or is Canonical more into serving their own interests than creating a great Linux distro?"
Windows is okay even if you don't stick with nothing but open source. It's even more okay if the majority of your dev tools require it. I've tried to get all my gear running in linux and it's just a straight pain in the ass no matter what distro I've tried. I'm a musician, artist and I make games with Multimedia Fusion which doesn't render the layout screen when using hardware acceleration, and Renoise, my music software just kicks my brain repeatedly trying to get sound out of it with linux. Compile my own linux sound drivers from Creative's source? Fuck that noise man. I recently switched to Win 7 and it has been so painless, I love it. Before that I was desperately trying to replace everything with Linux. My opinion has changed to "fuck linux." It's fun to hack around in but I can't use it for anything serious. Especially since there is a high chance it will completely explode when I install updates. In nerd speak.. I fail the saving throw about 40% of the time when updating and Linux won't even boot from then on. I'm going to leave it at that before I start a rant up.