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

Pastor JW pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org
Sun May 10 17:02:14 UTC 2009


On Sunday 10 May 2009 8:30:12 am Amit Kumar wrote:
> > 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.

Evidently you have never even used Ubuntu.  I have never used an OS easier to 
use.  My 80 plus year old mother has no trouble with it and neither does my 4 
year old grand-daughter.  But then again maybe you are correct, they are more 
intelligent than a windoze user!  

> 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.

I've never had a problem that wasn't addressed and fixed in a very short time 
unlike other OSes I have used.  

> 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.

Has always run fine here and infact how Skype ran on my factory installed 
Dell, caused several of my co-workers to dump what they had and install 
Kubuntu on their machines.  

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

It is, mostly because we constantly have so much windoze crud over here we 
have to waste time with.  

> 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,

Maybe if we downgraded Open Office enough that it wouldn't read its own 
previous version's files it would then be as poor a product as Office 2007!  



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