Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?

[James Gray]

On Thursday 01 December 2005 15:32, Chanchao wrote:
> Hello DC,
>
> Thursday, December 1, 2005, 8:28:00 AM, you wrote:
>
> DP> I'd like to know how many people have actually replaced Windows
> DP> with Ubuntu Linux.
>
> I would do so in a split-second if only it would work with my new
> digital camera, and frankly I don't trust it to support any future
> hardware I might buy, or software I might need, either.
>
> Oh yes, and I would have to give up video editing. With a new baby
> around and loads of video, that's not going to happen. I like the
> Kino-effort, but it's no Sony Vegas..
>
> Then, printing just about anything beyond basic text I do on Windows..
> It just doesn't come out as good.
>
> And there's the thing that to run Ubuntu and connect to the Internet,
> I need to connect it to a Windows laptop with Internet Connection
> Sharing turned on..  Ubuntu doesn't work with the built-in modem.
>
> So if it wasn't for Windows, you wouldn't be reading this.

Nothing you've mentioned (beyond Kino) is at all the fault of Linux or the 
open source community.  Blame hardware vendors and software writers who 
refuse to release drivers/versions for Linux or release the information 
needed to write an open source driver or open source file reader/writer.  
There's only so much you can achieve from reverse engineering (which is now 
illegal in some parts of the world anyway).

Personally, rather than buying 6-stud-pattern wheels for my car, then 
screaming at Ford coz they don't fit the 5-stud hubs, I buy stuff the 
supports the system I use.  On my car, 5-stud wheels.  On my computers, I buy 
from vendors who support Linux by either releasing binary drivers (NVidia, 
Intel ProWireless et al) or release sufficient info for the open source 
community to write a driver.

Cheers,

James
-- 
BOFH excuse #192:

runaway cat on system.