The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micro$oft go bankrupt?

[Amit Kumar]

> progressively easier to use. You no longer have to be a geek (I said this
> in a complimentary way, no insults!) to use Linux.
>

Using Ubuntu is not easy at all, and yes you need to be a geek to use it.
Don't get swayed away with self-congratulation.

The good thing with Ubuntu is its forums, where you can find about all the
problems on the machine. But using Ubuntu is still a pain:

1. Half-yearly upgrade every time breaks a number of applications. For
example, upgrade to 9.04 broke Tracker tool, Sound and Django already on my
laptop. Probably much more comprehensive test suites are needed (or else
more beta testers). Good thing is you can find about the problems on the
forums.

2. Linux suffers from license issues, which seems to be the whole reason
behind the Ubuntu sound woes. I can't easily use skype, because skype does
not care to run on linux.

3. Linux community seems fragmented (I am not an expert in this area). Only
a united front can handle such problems like licensing.

4. Further, it often happens that there are tens of applications for each
use case, but none of them are competitive (read non-crashing). This happens
because the developer community is highly fragmented. Many of the
applications are really university projects, which are not actively
maintained (for obvious reasons).

No linux application can be thought of an competitive with MS Office 2007,
etc.

Mind you, I love Ubuntu, but then I have been using it for ages. I know
Linux would be a boom for the third world, but that won't happen till the
Linuxes unite. I would suggest using internet advertising in linux apps for
increasing the commercial value of applications.
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