cross-platform virus

[Sasha Tsykin]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Sasha Tsykin wrote:
> 
>> it does not suit users of other Linuxes at all. When they use Ubuntu,
>> they find they can't do anything which requires root privileges (because
>> most of the time they have never even heard of sudo) and they just leave
>> it and say "isn't that a crap distro." This has to change.
> 
> Why?  I don't understand the attitude that says that Ubuntu (or any specific
> Linux distro, or even Linux as a whole) _has_ to compete - with Windows,
> with Mac, with the BSDs - in any way at all.
> 
> I use Ubuntu _because_ it suits my needs.  If I found another distro that
> worked better for me, I'd be really surprised if anybody (whose opinion
> mattered to me) felt that I'd done anything wrong.  Conversely, I don't get
> upset that there are people out there who'd prefer to use Suse, Mandriva,
> Fedora, etc.  I even tolerate the BSD'ers and I'm still married to a
> Windows user (and even spent the 6 hours needed to upgrade her to XP from
> 98!).
> 
> If someone installs Ubuntu, finds they can't do anything in root, and gives
> up without investigating further, it's their loss - and _only_ their loss. 
> It doesn't damage either me or Ubuntu.
Absolutely, but we want them to find Ubuntu to be the best. Ubuntu does 
compete with other distributions, it is wrong to think that ti doesn't.