Freespire's Google ads: "What is Ubuntu Missing?"

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 18:02, Chanchao wrote:
> It seems Freespire is exactly the thing I wondered about way back when I
> started using Ubuntu:  "It Does Not Have To Be That Hard" to get stuff
> to play, and I always felt Ubuntu was over-cautious on licensing
> issues.. You'd think that if ANYONE would have the connections/clout to
> get the licensing issues for home users sorted then it would be sabdfl..
>   Yet it never happened, and now there's Freespire with others likely to
> follow suit.  (OpenSuse perhaps?) So how about it?  Let's do an
> 'enriched media edition' of Ubuntu.
>
> I did notice however that Freespire uses KDE, which I hate A LOT more
> than a bit of DIY'ing on the RestrictedFormats page.
>
> I bet dumping KDE in favour of Gnome is a lot more involved than a bit
> of gstreamer downloading......
>
> So in answer to the Freespire ad about 'steps needed to make X the
> perfect OS', I'd like to see their instuctions to ditch KDE on Freespire
> and bolt on something more humane.
>
I happen to like KDE, but in any case, I think you'll be pleased with Edgy. At 
least in Amarok, when I first played an mp3 (I had forgotten to install the 
relevant codecs) it automatically asked me if I wanted to install them, and 
when I said yes, it did so. There was no DIYing involved.

Sasha