[ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

[norman]

> > OK folks, get the knives out and shoot me down in flames. (I know, I
> > have mixed my metaphors).
> >   
> One can dwell on the negative ("my obscure card won't work in Linux so 
> it's cr at p") or one can look at the positive, which is that 95% of what 
> most people need in a computer can be done without paying loads of money 
> for proprietary software and operating systems...

I agree about not being negative but must money be brought into the
discussion? If I want to use Ubuntu and have to pay for the 5% I need
then so be it. But is it as simple as that?

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> The key is freedom to choose... we're not railroaded into any particular 
> distro or any particular way of working, in the way that Microsoft and 
> its ilk would like us to be... if there's some feature lacking in Linux 
> that Microsoft's offerings have, there are sure to be hundreds if not 
> thousands of people out there *as we speak* working on making it happen...

Freedom of choice is a wonderful thing to have and, if Ubuntu gives us
that, then more strength to the developers' elbows.
> 
> ...proprietary drivers for obscure devices are always going to be 
> difficult... but you've got to look at the "bigger picture"... the 
> manufacturers will sit up and listen, it is only a matter of time... and 
> until then, to be honest, I wouldn't give up my OS because I couldn't 
> get a USB Freeview card to work... I'd probably go down Argos and pay 
> £20 for a Freeview box and plug it in next to my computer and continue 
> to enjoy having a laptop that runs well, does everything I want and 
> isn't constantly informing Microsoft of what I'm installing...

If all I wanted was to watch freeview television then I agree with you
but I want more. I want to be able to record programmes to my HDD and
burn them to DVD etc.

Norman