<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3354" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=MailContainerBody style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 CanvasTabStop="true" name="Compose message area"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Friends,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To start with 'I like Ubuntu', I have it on my PC at home for more than an year now. I found this on digg, I understand criticism is a tough nut to swallow but I’m sending it to this community because I'm sure we have people here who can really do something about it....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The whole post can be searched on digg with name "Linux Users - Why So Serious"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>------------------------</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Typical conversations with a relative about his or her computer which, because of you, runs Ubuntu:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>+ "Can I have MSN on my Laptop?"<BR>- "You have"<BR>+ "No, this is not MSN. On Kates' laptop it looks different."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>+ "I can't get The Sims to install"<BR>- "That's because it won't run on Ubuntu."<BR>- "Here. Try TuxRacer"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>+ "I want to view this DVD, but the player says it cannot open the disk"<BR>- "You have to install the xine_d4d_plugin."<BR>+ "How? I can't find it in the software database"<BR>- "Just dowload the source, then ./configure, make and make install"<BR>+ "......"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>+ "I bought a webcam, to work with skype, but I cannot get the sound to work during a session"<BR>- "That's because the sound device is in use by gstreamer. You have to disable gstreamer and turn on OSS emulation for Alsa by installing snd-pcm-oss to get it to work."<BR>+ "Wait.... what?"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here, the reason why Linux's desktop market-share is 1%</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>---------------------------</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hardeep Singh</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>