"My first 48 hours enduring Ubuntu"

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:32:17AM -0600, Troy Davidson wrote:
> That is an impressive read.  I do think some of the complaints are
> silly since they aren't Ubuntus problems, but the designers of the
> various software.  Ubuntu can't go to the Gaim developers and tell
> them how to design their interface.  Nor, can Gaim tell Ubuntu what to
> do.

I think the author's point is that Ubuntu is the most usable
Linux distro thus far, but that it still has a ways to go.

By your argument above, what could Ubuntu legitimately be
attacked for? For that matter, what could any Linux distro
be attacked for? They're all assembling the same components
-- Gaim, OpenOffice, AbiWord, the kernel, GNOME and/or KDE,
etc., etc. The only real differences between distributions
are ... the installer, the philosophy (more or less
openness), various details about which packages to
include, etc. Fundamentally, I think, usability will be
about the same, for precisely the reasons you mention.

But that's not an argument in defense of Linux. Imagine
you're talking to an OS X user. Would "Sure it's less usable
... but that's because we have no control over our
developers" assuage him at all?

For that matter, Apple has very little 'control' over the
developers of NetNewsWire, say, but it still manages to be a
better newsreader than any such Linux reader.

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
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http://laniels.org/
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