I'm not saying there aren't other great Linux distros. I just happen to find Ubuntu very easy and fast for everything I need to do.
However: If a different Linux distro did the following I would switch right away:
A. Stay as easy to use, and require even less of the command line. B. Allow me to just be root all the time. Or make it easier to be root in nautilus, at least. C. Ditch the Brown. D. Ditch Evolution for Thunderbird. E. Make installing codecs even easier. F. Ditto "restricted" drivers. G. Allow me to keep some things bleeding edge (wine, emulators, etc.) in an easy way (without adding repositories, etc.) H. Come with beryl and Avant Window Navigator on by default.
So show me the Distro that keeps the simplicity and stability of Ubuntu, but fixes those issues, and I'll switch tomorrow.
1. Sports Car: Mac OS X. Pretty fast, looks fancy, you think you're real cool. You paid too much, it's not that reliable. Eventually you'll just have to buy a whole new one, cause maintenance is a real bitch.
2. Party Bus: Windows XP. Kinda scary, might get viruses, but you'll have fun with silly games and plenty of porn. Might drive you to drink too much, might cause hang overs.
3. Work Truck: Debian Linux. Solid, reliable. Gets the job done. Boring. Nobody looks forward to it.
4. SUV: Windows Vista. Everybody wants it, because it looks better than your old car, but when you get it, it's slow, hard to do three point turns in, costs you way too much in gas, and doesn't do some of the stuff your old car did. You end up using your old car, and eventually put it up on Craig's List.
5. Classic Car: Ubuntu. If you keep it in fluids, it runs forever. It's fast, has clean simple lines, all of your friend's are jealous, but not brave enough to switch from their Toyota. Kinda missing some newer creature comforts like cup holders.
6. Moped: Knoppix. Saves money, time, is fast. But you can't do some things you do with your other car, like carry stuff and other people. Plus it's a little embarrassing.
7. Yugo: Windows ME. Barely drove even when brand new. Was KIND OF cute, at first, but within minutes you wished you had a different car. Any car.
8. Toyota: Windows 2000. Saves money, saves time, is pretty fast. Does most of the stuff you need it to do, and easily, but it's really not glamorous. Tons of people are still driving it, but nobody's proud. You probably still have the stock radio, which sucks, but at least it still plays music.
Now we can put even more non violent criminals in an already overly bloated prison system for crimes that the general public doesn't even care about. It's so great when special interest groups dominate the American people into submission, dominate the media into ignoring it, and then dominate actual people into prison.
Expect this law to:
A) Not be enforced ever, or the fabric of American society will fall apart as too many prisoners ruin the economy.
B) Be enforced only on occasion, and in ways that are specifically beneficial to the power abusers who will wield this power.
C) Ensure that what was left of our civil liberties is gone, America really is a police state, and expect a massive, massive brain drain.
This guy should so obviously be in prison for crimes against the constitution. Our whole system, and every member in it is so corrupt that Jefferson is totally right: We need a revolution every 25 years, and right now we are 205 years over due.
Seriously. It comes with everything. Open Office, Tomboy Notes, The Gimp, Pidgin, Skype, Firefox.....Sadly it doesn't come with Thunderbird by default, so that costs me approx. 5 minutes of grief per machine every time I set up a new one. I have to remove Evolution, sudo apt-get thunderbird... You know the drill.
I also change the background for every machine, and lose the brown default theme as well. An additional 30 seconds per machine.
Other than that, a default Ubuntu install is almost perfect for an office machine in any department.
We could heavily invest in solar and lithium ion batteries and solve our pollution problems, our economic problems, and our foreign policy problems.....
Nah, makes too much sense. Let's have Fox forge another election. Maybe will get a chick this time.
Suppose I get my video camera, go next door, and shoot my neighbors having sex. Then me posting it on the Internet is somehow covered by "Free Speech"?!? What's even MORE egregious, is that I'm sure these customers were PAYING Verizon for the service. So besides illegal spying, illegal wire-tapping, and illegal personal information theft, you can add a really fucked up violation to the terms of service too, I'm sure. These corporations must be shut down. Seriously.
I used to work at a TGIF, and it was a fairly loathsome job, and I made a Quake 2 map that perfectly resembled the restaurant. Many evenings after work my coworkers and I would frag each other mindlessly (and cartoonishly, a la Quake 2 physics) throughout the restaurant over a few cocktails. If anything it made us better friends, and work more bearable, as we looked forward to "cocktail fragging" as we often called the activity.
I want to be as excited about this as anybody. I'm a HUGE Ubuntu fan since the release of Feisty, I've installed it on literally a dozen machines at least already. I'm switching over as many people as I can as fast as I can. But compared to other notebooks being offered:
The Dell ones aren't as sleek as the mac notebooks, hardware wise. But they are nearly as spendy.
They don't have cameras. Most other notebooks do, these days, the macs being a good example (again).
They are overpriced. I can get a GREAT HP laptop for about $500, and then install Ubuntu myself.
I mean, this is a great first step, but I'm not buying one. Not till they:
A. Come way down in price.
B. Come with a webcam built in.
C. Have a metal shell, instead of plastic.
D. Are cheaper/better than the competition in some way.
Kudos to Dell for listening to their customers, now maybe let's try and remain competitive in other areas as well, because otherwise, this Ubuntu preinstall will still be a failed experiment, and not because of Ubuntu, which is great, but because the laptops are under-featured and over-priced.
Unless of course your Grandfather is suffering from any of the many mental ailments that can afflict the elderly, he'd be a downright jackass to bother owning a Zune.
It had potential, but like Ubuntu, you foolishly chose brown. Nobody likes brown. "Check out my turd like mp3 player!!" Is not something kids usually say with pride, adults or grandpa, either.
It had potential, but like HD DVD and Bluray, you foolishly chose to add DRM. Nobody likes DRM. "Hey, you want to check out this song? Oh never mind, YOU CAN'T." That will make you cool among your peers!
It had potential, but like every ipod, there is no joystick, so there are no games. I've heard you can put doom on the ipod. I imagine with that kind of power you could put a myriad of great, fun games, but without a controller, who's going to play them?
It doesn't use a giant touchscreen, so you can't watch a movie on the WHOLE device, a la a giant screen, like the iPhone will have, so movie watching sucks, as does TV (or other downloaded videos).
Nor does it work well for any other functions.
It plays mp3s, albeit not as well as the ipod, and it does so in an ugly brown case, laden with DRM that makes it difficult to use AS YOU WOULD ACTUALLY LIKE TO USE IT. Further: Having used one on a client's computer (I frequently do repairs for a little cash on the side), it didn't sync very well, and I absolutely loathed the proprietary crap software you are forced to use with it. It's really just as bad as iTunes, which is equally loathsome, bloated, and not FOSS.
Who are you competing with? How is your product worth buying on any level? Are MS execs all huffing glue? How many of the eight people who actually bought your turdp3 player are happy with it? Three?
Yes, but if the competition is Feisty/Beryl and Stripped down XP.....
That was my point. XP is not going to win that competition, even if it IS possible to run it with those specs. Besides which of course, Feisty/Beryl will run much better (Faster, Stable, Less viruses, etc.).
Anybody who's tried to run Windows in 256 mb of ram should know that it's a joke. There is no way any kid with an internet connection isn't going to download Ubuntu and switch. Seriously. Fuck Sugar, Fuck Windows, you could get PLENTY of functionality out of a machine like that and a lightweight linux distro, I favor Xubuntu or the like....
Man, this guy was a HUGE asshole. DRM and MPAA shenanigans aside (which enough to hate him, really), he was also the wing man of a guy (LBJ) who killed our rightfully elected leader (according to Howard Hunt, who was privy to the crime), and basically subverted the most powerful democracy in the world so that it is now completely beholden to a corporate media machine that is anti human both here and all over the planet.
Seriously, his death came about 50 years late. I for one would not sully my piss on vermin like this, for fear of getting some of his slime anywhere near me.
Don't protect people like this. They should have been hanged. All enemies of the constitution should be hanged, and these perpe-TRAITORS should have been first in line. It's a pity that vile scum like this even get to live to 40, much less the ripe old age this douche-bag made it to.
I'm steaming mad this is a guy I'll never get to punch square in the face, because he's already fuckin' dead.
Because I already know it's somehow biased. TIE?!?
I've run Vista and Feisty Fawn. I've installed them both on a few machines. I've also been using other OSes for > 10 years.
Now, that's a small modicum of experience as compared to many/. readers, and I'm sure my knowledge and experience is horrifically limited compared to other/.ers, but still there's a pretty clear win here in this battle, and I'd like to run through the list real quick.
Installation: 1. Vista: Total pain in the neck. Took forever, installed lots of random extra crap that slowed my machine(s) down. Many of my old apps and games stopped working.
2. Feisty: Breeze. Very fast, I could even surf the web during installation. Very clean initial install, minimal wasted resource stuff installed. Most old Linux binaries still work, but coming from Windows XP, many of my old apps and games stopped working, however, more than were broken by Vista.
Initial Setup: 1. Vista: Word Pad. Terrible CD burning interface. Windows Media Player is still bloated and >>>>>>> than Aero, seriously. I'd like a better Nintendo 64 emulator. Mupen works well, but it lacks many features and some of the speed and compatibility of 1964 on XP. I'd like a 3d chess game. There are several free ones out, just grab it, clean it up, release it with the OS. Make it easy to play online against a friend via GAIM. Make ekiga easier and better. Actually iChat pretty much ruins all the open AND MS offerings in this department, which is tragic, because SPEEX is free, and better than the codecs that even iChat chooses to use, so (what were they thinking?!?).
I wanted to like Vista, I did, but it's such an obvious downgrade from XP in so many ways: Networking, Games, DRM, speed, stability... It seems like the only thing they got right was eye candy, and they are so far behind Ubuntu at this point that it's ridiculous. Especially since Ubuntu is FOSS, I mean, couldn't they have just grabbed all the compiz/beryl stuff and applied it natively via DirectX or something (what were they thinking?!?)? I really honestly don't know who's in charge at MS, and why they chose to shoot themselves so clearly in the foot with this release. They were already falling behind Linux in key areas: IE vs Firefox, Paint vs Gimp, WMP vs (just about anything, really), and now with the added DRM, more difficult security measures and networking setup.... It's like they WANT to lose all the desktops or something. I do miss Windows Live Messenger though. That is one app that they almost got right, at least as far as video conferencing goes. I look forward to getting a VM up and running so I can still use it in Ubuntu.
I want to stress again that Ubuntu is a great OS. I've been using it for > a month now, and it is fantastically easy, beautiful and fast, even on much older hardware than I currently own. I got beryl running nicely in 256 mb of ram, on a geforce 4, and Athlon (not XP!). Even on that ancient hardware it is much better and faster than Vista on a core 2 duo with 2 gb of ram, and an 8800 GTS. Hopefully somebody somewhere repackages Feisty to include better default apps and colors, because I think the time for Linux on the desktop has finally arrived, and there are A LOT of positives for humanity if FOSS wins this war.
All that being said, though, for most of my clients I'm still recommending XP SP2. The reason is simple: Games. They want San Andreas. They want WoW, CoD, and Outrun. Wine is just not good enough yet, and I wouldn't recommend Vista to people I actively dislike, much less people who are paying me. For those people who don't care much about games, I am install Ubuntu, adding beryl, and setting it up so on first boot they have Tvtime on one cube side, Mupen64 on another, Rhythmbox on a third, and Firefox on a fourth. The average end user thinks I am a wizard, but it's really all very simple in Ubuntu, now if only they could lose evolution and the shit brown.....
Conceptually from bottom to top, DRM is a flawed idea. There is NO WAY to allow content to be viewed in certain circumstances, but not in others. It's impossible. The whole plan is idiotic. There will NEVER be a way to provide "security" to media which is viewable by ANY machine. There is simply no way to do it. I mean, for an entire industry to be committed to such a Quixotic idea is really indicative of what kind of morons are running said industry.
Honestly, I'm done even trying to "fight" their logic. I just feel bad for them because clearly a huge swath of them are completely retarded in some horrifically obvious way. It seems that even a four year old could understand the logic behind the problem, and why their logic is flawed. A smart four year old, I suppose, but I'm sure out of the 100's of four year old students I've had over the years teaching violin, at least one of them was that smart.
Seriously, does not one key member of the MPAA have the reasoning ability to see the horribly flawed logic of their whole idea?
Well, I'm just saying one REALLY great game that was Ubuntu exclusive would pretty much wipe out MS hegemony at this point.
My personal pick would be online GTA with speex for every player in EAX, but a wiser choice might be some ridiculously fun version of Mario Kart, or even Tetris or something.
LOL, yeah, true Stalin probably would've won the war on his own by sheer volume of Mongolian cannon fodder. All these great replies and I'm score 1: Troll. LOL America was definitely the savior of England, at least, and for that I don't think the rest of the world really thanks us, nor should they.
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lol. That's just like, your opinion, man.
I'm not saying there aren't other great Linux distros. I just happen to find Ubuntu very easy and fast for everything I need to do.
However: If a different Linux distro did the following I would switch right away:
A. Stay as easy to use, and require even less of the command line.
B. Allow me to just be root all the time. Or make it easier to be root in nautilus, at least.
C. Ditch the Brown.
D. Ditch Evolution for Thunderbird.
E. Make installing codecs even easier.
F. Ditto "restricted" drivers.
G. Allow me to keep some things bleeding edge (wine, emulators, etc.) in an easy way (without adding repositories, etc.)
H. Come with beryl and Avant Window Navigator on by default.
So show me the Distro that keeps the simplicity and stability of Ubuntu, but fixes those issues, and I'll switch tomorrow.
rhY
I loved your Sports car / Party bus analogy.
1. Sports Car: Mac OS X. Pretty fast, looks fancy, you think you're real cool. You paid too much, it's not that reliable. Eventually you'll just have to buy a whole new one, cause maintenance is a real bitch.
2. Party Bus: Windows XP. Kinda scary, might get viruses, but you'll have fun with silly games and plenty of porn. Might drive you to drink too much, might cause hang overs.
3. Work Truck: Debian Linux. Solid, reliable. Gets the job done. Boring. Nobody looks forward to it.
4. SUV: Windows Vista. Everybody wants it, because it looks better than your old car, but when you get it, it's slow, hard to do three point turns in, costs you way too much in gas, and doesn't do some of the stuff your old car did. You end up using your old car, and eventually put it up on Craig's List.
5. Classic Car: Ubuntu. If you keep it in fluids, it runs forever. It's fast, has clean simple lines, all of your friend's are jealous, but not brave enough to switch from their Toyota. Kinda missing some newer creature comforts like cup holders.
6. Moped: Knoppix. Saves money, time, is fast. But you can't do some things you do with your other car, like carry stuff and other people. Plus it's a little embarrassing.
7. Yugo: Windows ME. Barely drove even when brand new. Was KIND OF cute, at first, but within minutes you wished you had a different car. Any car.
8. Toyota: Windows 2000. Saves money, saves time, is pretty fast. Does most of the stuff you need it to do, and easily, but it's really not glamorous. Tons of people are still driving it, but nobody's proud. You probably still have the stock radio, which sucks, but at least it still plays music.
1. Firefox
2. The Gimp
3. Pidgin
4. Ubuntu
5. Thunderbird
6. Wine
7. Summer of Code
8. Open Office
9. UbuntuStudio
10. KDE, Gnome
11. Beryl/Compiz
12. 7zip
13. Sourceforge
14. Linux
15. OpenMoko
FOSS is definitely dead and dying. I can't see anything on that list that would disprove that. LOL
Idiots.
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
Now we can put even more non violent criminals in an already overly bloated prison system for crimes that the general public doesn't even care about. It's so great when special interest groups dominate the American people into submission, dominate the media into ignoring it, and then dominate actual people into prison.
Expect this law to:
A) Not be enforced ever, or the fabric of American society will fall apart as too many prisoners ruin the economy.
B) Be enforced only on occasion, and in ways that are specifically beneficial to the power abusers who will wield this power.
C) Ensure that what was left of our civil liberties is gone, America really is a police state, and expect a massive, massive brain drain.
This guy should so obviously be in prison for crimes against the constitution. Our whole system, and every member in it is so corrupt that Jefferson is totally right: We need a revolution every 25 years, and right now we are 205 years over due.
rhY
Seriously. It comes with everything. Open Office, Tomboy Notes, The Gimp, Pidgin, Skype, Firefox. ....Sadly it doesn't come with Thunderbird by default, so that costs me approx. 5 minutes of grief per machine every time I set up a new one. I have to remove Evolution, sudo apt-get thunderbird ... You know the drill.
I also change the background for every machine, and lose the brown default theme as well. An additional 30 seconds per machine.
Other than that, a default Ubuntu install is almost perfect for an office machine in any department.
rhY
I for one welcome our new Uruguayan child overlords.
I believe it's called "Satanism".
We could heavily invest in solar and lithium ion batteries and solve our pollution problems, our economic problems, and our foreign policy problems.....
Nah, makes too much sense. Let's have Fox forge another election. Maybe will get a chick this time.
Suppose I get my video camera, go next door, and shoot my neighbors having sex. Then me posting it on the Internet is somehow covered by "Free Speech"?!? What's even MORE egregious, is that I'm sure these customers were PAYING Verizon for the service. So besides illegal spying, illegal wire-tapping, and illegal personal information theft, you can add a really fucked up violation to the terms of service too, I'm sure. These corporations must be shut down. Seriously.
MySpace!
I used to work at a TGIF, and it was a fairly loathsome job, and I made a Quake 2 map that perfectly resembled the restaurant. Many evenings after work my coworkers and I would frag each other mindlessly (and cartoonishly, a la Quake 2 physics) throughout the restaurant over a few cocktails. If anything it made us better friends, and work more bearable, as we looked forward to "cocktail fragging" as we often called the activity.
VIDEO GAMES ARE JUST GAMES.
That is all.
rhY
I want to be as excited about this as anybody. I'm a HUGE Ubuntu fan since the release of Feisty, I've installed it on literally a dozen machines at least already. I'm switching over as many people as I can as fast as I can. But compared to other notebooks being offered:
The Dell ones aren't as sleek as the mac notebooks, hardware wise. But they are nearly as spendy.
They don't have cameras. Most other notebooks do, these days, the macs being a good example (again).
They are overpriced. I can get a GREAT HP laptop for about $500, and then install Ubuntu myself.
I mean, this is a great first step, but I'm not buying one. Not till they:
A. Come way down in price.
B. Come with a webcam built in.
C. Have a metal shell, instead of plastic.
D. Are cheaper/better than the competition in some way.
Kudos to Dell for listening to their customers, now maybe let's try and remain competitive in other areas as well, because otherwise, this Ubuntu preinstall will still be a failed experiment, and not because of Ubuntu, which is great, but because the laptops are under-featured and over-priced.
rhY
Unless of course your Grandfather is suffering from any of the many mental ailments that can afflict the elderly, he'd be a downright jackass to bother owning a Zune.
It had potential, but like Ubuntu, you foolishly chose brown. Nobody likes brown. "Check out my turd like mp3 player!!" Is not something kids usually say with pride, adults or grandpa, either.
It had potential, but like HD DVD and Bluray, you foolishly chose to add DRM. Nobody likes DRM. "Hey, you want to check out this song? Oh never mind, YOU CAN'T." That will make you cool among your peers!
It had potential, but like every ipod, there is no joystick, so there are no games. I've heard you can put doom on the ipod. I imagine with that kind of power you could put a myriad of great, fun games, but without a controller, who's going to play them?
It doesn't use a giant touchscreen, so you can't watch a movie on the WHOLE device, a la a giant screen, like the iPhone will have, so movie watching sucks, as does TV (or other downloaded videos).
Nor does it work well for any other functions.
It plays mp3s, albeit not as well as the ipod, and it does so in an ugly brown case, laden with DRM that makes it difficult to use AS YOU WOULD ACTUALLY LIKE TO USE IT. Further: Having used one on a client's computer (I frequently do repairs for a little cash on the side), it didn't sync very well, and I absolutely loathed the proprietary crap software you are forced to use with it. It's really just as bad as iTunes, which is equally loathsome, bloated, and not FOSS.
Who are you competing with? How is your product worth buying on any level? Are MS execs all huffing glue? How many of the eight people who actually bought your turdp3 player are happy with it? Three?
Luckily, yester-year's super gee-whiz invention "The Laser" will do the job nicely.
Can't wait to get a pair of laser-snips.
rhY
Somebody figured out that sand is cheap!!
Yes, but if the competition is Feisty/Beryl and Stripped down XP.....
That was my point. XP is not going to win that competition, even if it IS possible to run it with those specs. Besides which of course, Feisty/Beryl will run much better (Faster, Stable, Less viruses, etc.).
rhY
Anybody who's tried to run Windows in 256 mb of ram should know that it's a joke. There is no way any kid with an internet connection isn't going to download Ubuntu and switch. Seriously. Fuck Sugar, Fuck Windows, you could get PLENTY of functionality out of a machine like that and a lightweight linux distro, I favor Xubuntu or the like....
rhY
Man, this guy was a HUGE asshole. DRM and MPAA shenanigans aside (which enough to hate him, really), he was also the wing man of a guy (LBJ) who killed our rightfully elected leader (according to Howard Hunt, who was privy to the crime), and basically subverted the most powerful democracy in the world so that it is now completely beholden to a corporate media machine that is anti human both here and all over the planet.
Seriously, his death came about 50 years late. I for one would not sully my piss on vermin like this, for fear of getting some of his slime anywhere near me.
Don't protect people like this. They should have been hanged. All enemies of the constitution should be hanged, and these perpe-TRAITORS should have been first in line. It's a pity that vile scum like this even get to live to 40, much less the ripe old age this douche-bag made it to.
I'm steaming mad this is a guy I'll never get to punch square in the face, because he's already fuckin' dead.
Because I already know it's somehow biased. TIE?!?
/. readers, and I'm sure my knowledge and experience is horrifically limited compared to other /.ers, but still there's a pretty clear win here in this battle, and I'd like to run through the list real quick.
I've run Vista and Feisty Fawn. I've installed them both on a few machines. I've also been using other OSes for > 10 years.
Now, that's a small modicum of experience as compared to many
Installation:
1. Vista: Total pain in the neck. Took forever, installed lots of random extra crap that slowed my machine(s) down. Many of my old apps and games stopped working.
2. Feisty: Breeze. Very fast, I could even surf the web during installation. Very clean initial install, minimal wasted resource stuff installed. Most old Linux binaries still work, but coming from Windows XP, many of my old apps and games stopped working, however, more than were broken by Vista.
Initial Setup:
1. Vista: Word Pad. Terrible CD burning interface. Windows Media Player is still bloated and >>>>>>> than Aero, seriously. I'd like a better Nintendo 64 emulator. Mupen works well, but it lacks many features and some of the speed and compatibility of 1964 on XP. I'd like a 3d chess game. There are several free ones out, just grab it, clean it up, release it with the OS. Make it easy to play online against a friend via GAIM. Make ekiga easier and better. Actually iChat pretty much ruins all the open AND MS offerings in this department, which is tragic, because SPEEX is free, and better than the codecs that even iChat chooses to use, so (what were they thinking?!?).
I wanted to like Vista, I did, but it's such an obvious downgrade from XP in so many ways: Networking, Games, DRM, speed, stability... It seems like the only thing they got right was eye candy, and they are so far behind Ubuntu at this point that it's ridiculous. Especially since Ubuntu is FOSS, I mean, couldn't they have just grabbed all the compiz/beryl stuff and applied it natively via DirectX or something (what were they thinking?!?)? I really honestly don't know who's in charge at MS, and why they chose to shoot themselves so clearly in the foot with this release. They were already falling behind Linux in key areas: IE vs Firefox, Paint vs Gimp, WMP vs (just about anything, really), and now with the added DRM, more difficult security measures and networking setup.... It's like they WANT to lose all the desktops or something. I do miss Windows Live Messenger though. That is one app that they almost got right, at least as far as video conferencing goes. I look forward to getting a VM up and running so I can still use it in Ubuntu.
I want to stress again that Ubuntu is a great OS. I've been using it for > a month now, and it is fantastically easy, beautiful and fast, even on much older hardware than I currently own. I got beryl running nicely in 256 mb of ram, on a geforce 4, and Athlon (not XP!). Even on that ancient hardware it is much better and faster than Vista on a core 2 duo with 2 gb of ram, and an 8800 GTS. Hopefully somebody somewhere repackages Feisty to include better default apps and colors, because I think the time for Linux on the desktop has finally arrived, and there are A LOT of positives for humanity if FOSS wins this war.
All that being said, though, for most of my clients I'm still recommending XP SP2. The reason is simple: Games. They want San Andreas. They want WoW, CoD, and Outrun. Wine is just not good enough yet, and I wouldn't recommend Vista to people I actively dislike, much less people who are paying me. For those people who don't care much about games, I am install Ubuntu, adding beryl, and setting it up so on first boot they have Tvtime on one cube side, Mupen64 on another, Rhythmbox on a third, and Firefox on a fourth. The average end user thinks I am a wizard, but it's really all very simple in Ubuntu, now if only they could lose evolution and the shit brown.....
Conceptually from bottom to top, DRM is a flawed idea. There is NO WAY to allow content to be viewed in certain circumstances, but not in others. It's impossible. The whole plan is idiotic. There will NEVER be a way to provide "security" to media which is viewable by ANY machine. There is simply no way to do it. I mean, for an entire industry to be committed to such a Quixotic idea is really indicative of what kind of morons are running said industry.
Honestly, I'm done even trying to "fight" their logic. I just feel bad for them because clearly a huge swath of them are completely retarded in some horrifically obvious way. It seems that even a four year old could understand the logic behind the problem, and why their logic is flawed. A smart four year old, I suppose, but I'm sure out of the 100's of four year old students I've had over the years teaching violin, at least one of them was that smart.
Seriously, does not one key member of the MPAA have the reasoning ability to see the horribly flawed logic of their whole idea?
rhY
Well, I'm just saying one REALLY great game that was Ubuntu exclusive would pretty much wipe out MS hegemony at this point.
My personal pick would be online GTA with speex for every player in EAX, but a wiser choice might be some ridiculously fun version of Mario Kart, or even Tetris or something.
rhY
People who are afraid of ANY word or series of words are by definition complete idiots.
I'm part every race (American), so I could give two shits what anybody calls me... LOL
rhY
LOL, yeah, true Stalin probably would've won the war on his own by sheer volume of Mongolian cannon fodder. All these great replies and I'm score 1: Troll. LOL America was definitely the savior of England, at least, and for that I don't think the rest of the world really thanks us, nor should they.
rhY