Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go? 778
inkscapee writes "Used to be Ubuntu was the big Linux hero, the shining knight that would drive Linux onto every desktop and kick bad old Windows to the curb. But now Ubuntu is the Bad Linux. What's going on, is it typical fanboy fickleness, or is Canonical more into serving their own interests than creating a great Linux distro?"
What's going on? (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes
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Exactly!
Re:What's going on? (Score:5, Funny)
So... we're all going to use Windows now?
Actually use iPads while endlessly promoting Android ipad-killer tablets.
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Try to use, and be constantly frustrated by ipads, wait in vain for an affordable and usable Android tablet, eventually go back to Windows on laptops.
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I've rediscovered the World as Gentoo Linux.
Mine's still emerging.
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Really..with a modern computer, compiling really takes very little time, and it isn't like the box locks up while compiling.
Where you DO get the biggest bang for the buck with Gentoo, is on older hardware. Custom compiling flags and all do help for giving new life to old hardware.
On these..sure it take forever to compile some things...but it will get a benefit from this, and it isn't like the old stuff *IS* my primary computer(s) in the house..so, I
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You target niches and go after those. And that includes creating apps for the those niches which are stronger than the commercial applications or where the price differences are substantial enough to make a difference. A good example where FOSS has done that is the programmer niche. In 1995 the vast majority of programmers used proprietary, platform specific languages and paid for development tools. FOSS has changed that.
High end hardware manufacturers (server) have Linux drivers because Linux has real
Re:What's going on? (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm thinking that this is a loaded question, due to the fact that the only link in the "summary" is on the text "Canonical more into serving their own interests".
Slashdot summaries are frequently a bunch of opinions stated as if true, followed by pointless questions, submitted by people with a vested interest in the topic. Is this actual journalism, an opening for debate, or does this suggest another purpose [wiktionary.org]?
Re:What's going on? (Score:5, Insightful)
Exactly so. It's funny that within a few hours we had a story with a single link in a summary that posited an inexorable decline for Google because of a "slew" of "negative stories" and then another summary, with a single link, that describes Ubuntu's decline. Somebody took the time to post these stories, to post those single links and to wrap them in a summary with an air of inevitability. Google's run is "finished". Ubuntu is "done" These links were not posted with summaries saying "This is what so-and-so said" but rather "This is the truth". Faits accomplis.
A rapidly increasing amount of our "news" is driven by press releases put out by astroturf specialists which get polished by lazy journalists into stories that serve the interests of their bosses. In the last few days, I've read at least a half-dozen news stories about the "over-privileged" schoolteachers of Wisconsin, whose average "gold-plated" pensions of $20k/year makes them "bottom-feeders", "pigs" and "fat cats". The peaceful protests are characterized as "riots". Who stands to benefit from these mis-characterizations?
When such a large portion of the information that people consume is agenda-driven, and barely concealed agit-prop in support of groups with the resources to saturate the media, what chance do we have to make decisions, to act based on reliable data? But I guess that's the whole point.
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the only answer is censorship on slashdot...
the whole double-edged sword thing.
the only acceptible solution is that people develop better bullshit detectors and participate more in the pruning of submissions.
but me? i like to watch the shitstorm. it's good entertainment and small things amuse small minds.
Re:What's going on? (Score:4, Insightful)
I've met some very powerful minds in my life, but none of them, not one, was capable of completely making themselves immune to the science of well-funded marketing or public relations. Even though we all laughed at those poor losers who majored in "Communications", it seems that they are having the last laugh. Using the extremely potent psy ops weapons at their disposal, they can convince you of nearly everything, sell you almost anything, and make you doubt your most strongly-held beliefs. They can't do it perfectly, but they can do it well enough to turn our world to shit.
Honestly, I'm starting to believe that we need serious regulations on advertising, public relations and commercial media. Even though that goes against everything I believe (back to those "most strongly-held beliefs") I'm watching the society in which I live turned against itself to satisfy the urges of a very few powerful folks. Net Neutrality would be a step, but you've got those poor simpletons driving around in their cars listening to the radio and buying into the most shameful propaganda since The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Every day. And they come home and pop on Fox News and that stuff beams straight into their heads, into their reptile brains, bypassing judgment, bypassing morals, even bypassing the survival instinct.
I don't mean to sound so pessimistic. I'm not really so. But I think we're at a point where we're going to have to write off huge sections of our society and prepare for some very very bad times ahead.
And that's just my reaction to about an hour of channel surfing. If I had to watch an entire evening of reality shows or Fox News I'd probably be driven to do a great deal of damage, probably to myself.
Re:What's going on? (Score:5, Insightful)
You bonehead, three decades ago, a whole lot of private sector workers got pensions just like that.
Then Ronald Reagan happened and now you see a $20k/yr pension after a lifetime of hard work as excessive.
You poor, dumb bastard. You can't even see the number that's been done on your head.
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You have to be joking. We have massive unfunded pension problems across the board.
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It's not hard to figure out. I mean, they write it all right on their signs. If you can make out the spelling, you can make some pretty good guesses about how they feel. And why. And who benefits most from them feeling that way.
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*Troll mode off *
In fairness to them it's really just a commentary and discussion site. Yes they're biased. But aren't we all? They post that way because It sparks conversation, which is the draw here. I like the threaded format and you can really find some "gold nuggets" of knowledge here. There are some very sharp guys that linger and post. Not as many as there used to be AFAIK but you still see a great rotation of good commentary.
Re:What's going on? (Score:5, Insightful)
Summaries are assumed to be true, not opinion. Comments are assumed to be personal opinion, though they may state facts.
We assume the summaries are true because we want to use slashdot to save ourselves the time of tracking down and debunking every story on the Internet. We get annoyed when topics like this happen where its clear that its a opinionated TROLL.
We get even more pissed off when its done by someone like Taco, who through the years most of us have come to expect will have done a basic sanity check on the summary/story. We expect stupidity from kdawson and timothy, hence why half of slashdot has their stories not listed on the front page.
What has happened however is that it appears that slashdot has become completely unconcerned with presenting facts and truth and more concerned with not 'censoring' any submission and just letting the shit flow in.
I have uncensored Internet, I really don't want it, I have things to do, I use sites like slashdot to avoid having to do basically what it seems you have to now do for every slashdot story regardless of which person posted it to the front page.
Re:What's going on? (Score:4, Funny)
Summaries are assumed to be true, not opinion.
Don't assume. It makes an ass out of you and me.
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You have to assume things. I assume there is solid ground under my desk chair. I don't stare at the ground nonstop for confirmation.
It's good that you don't. There's no reason to believe that photons hitting your eyes in certain patterns have anything to do with whether the floor is really there. For that matter, electrochemical stimulus from your optic nerves might have nothing to do with photons.
Re:What's going on? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, I miss the days of journalists, like William Randolph Hearst, who didn't have any agenda.
Re:Totally! Journalists should... (Score:4, Insightful)
So journalists should find information they do not care about and heartlessly report about it?
Yes, they should. It's called "being objective", and is one of the tenets of good journalism. It's odd that you think otherwise; perhaps you are hiding some sort of agenda? [imdb.com]
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Re:What's going on? (Score:5, Insightful)
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First I've heard of any problems, and I've been using Ubuntu since 7.x... so... sounds like someone's muck raking to me, probably a small group of "disenfranchised" users.
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Ubuntu's made some dumb choices recently in GUI layout and package selection. Not huge issues, but they are PITA issues and that's what's caused a lot of Ubuntu hate. Also over the years people have been getting increasingly pissed off at the fact that Ubuntu is a bleeding-edge distro and updates tend to break stuff. Because of these issues a lot of people have been switching to Debian.
Re:What's going on? (Score:4, Interesting)
Ubuntu's made some dumb choices recently in GUI layout and package selection. Not huge issues, but they are PITA issues and that's what's caused a lot of Ubuntu hate.
Well, the great thing about linux is that you can change stuff as much as you like. I've never liked any distro's default choices ... but I'm prepared to take the time to tweak things to my own liking, safe in the knowledge that I can.
Also over the years people have been getting increasingly pissed off at the fact that Ubuntu is a bleeding-edge distro and updates tend to break stuff. Because of these issues a lot of people have been switching to Debian.
The funny thing is that when I started using linux back in 1999, the big criticism of Debian was that it wasn't bleeding edge enough! I guess you can't win in the linux world ...
Personally, I've been using Ubuntu for the last few years. I used to use a really minimalist distro and compile everything myself, but I don't have the time or inclination to do that any more ... and for that purpose, for me, Ubuntu works great. It's the first distro I've been confident enough to present to my parents as an alternative to windows, and one which they actually liked and preferred to windows.
But, you know, if people don't like Ubuntu they don't have to use it. There's a billion and one distros out there, catering for any whim or fancy in the world ... and if not, you can always roll your own. If Ubuntu changes enough to be unpopular with end users, then some other distro will catch on and we'll all be praising that one. Plus ça change ...
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Yeah, it's not like there was a story on Slashdot today about how the German government got fed up and went back to Windows after a decade long experiment, citing among other reasons Ubuntu switching around the UI constantly.
Re:What's going on? (Score:5, Funny)
Kosh, is that you? Fancy meeting you here! Last I heard you'd left the galaxy!
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yes
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For the longest time I would not consider another distro. Each distro has their own agenda. Each one is self centered. Few if any really understand the goal of bringing this powerful easy to use operating system to the masses. Canonical has that goal still, even if they have become more financially centered--less altruistic.
Some of Canonical's choices of recent are not synergistic to my goals. I am not interested in Unity (total piece of shit software--pardon my bluntness). It shouldn't have been prop
Re:What's going on? (Score:4, Insightful)
Some of Canonical's choices of recent are not synergistic to my goals.
I regret to inform you that the remainder of your statement was rendered void by your use of the (non-)word "synergistic".
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I am not interested in Unity (total piece of shit software--pardon my bluntness). It shouldn't have been proposed and absolutely it's seems a violation to consider it.
Even my 9 and 12 year-old Ubunutu fangirl daughters hate Unity! If little girls with puppy and monkey desktops don't like Unity, then who does?
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I've been helping a Linux noob, and several suggestions:
1) avoid acronyms and abbreviations. Everyone is guilty of this, but Linux is worst - do you think
Re:What's going on? (Score:4, Informative)
There are several things here:
1. It's a device file. Changing names for those can lead to problems with little benefit /dev/scsi/hard-disk/primary/master perhaps? But now it's long and still confusing. What's a primary master? Or maybe /dev/scsi/INTEL_SSDSA2M080G2GC would be better? (that's what my disk calls itself). This stuff isn't for end users, and tends to come out ugly any way you slice it. Something of this sort was tried before with devfs a few years back. It was a huge pain to switch over to, had little benefit, and didn't stick. /dev anyway. The GUI is supposed to make it accessible easily.
2. It is hard to give them intuitive names. You'd prefer
3. As an end user, you're not supposed to mess with this stuff in
This is already mostly solved. In my Ubuntu install stuff appears as:
in the "Internet" section:
BitTorrent Client
KTorrent
Seems pretty clear.
Ruby is something you shouldn't even see really, it might be needed for some program to work, but those are implementation details.
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The Windows counterpart to /dev/sda is \\.\PhysicalDisc0, is that more or less intuitive? Windows hides all that stuff from users, which is what all the issues you list boil down to: Windows has something approaching a clear and consistent UI, something Linux still lacks.
Getting a clear basic interface on Linux wouldn't be that big a challenge these days I don't think. I use Windows 7 on my desktop simply for DirectX 11 support, but aside from games the only apps I use are Chrome and a media player. I also
Re:What's going on? (Score:5, Insightful)
There are two barriers to widespread Linux adoption the first is niche software support. Things like professional audio and photography programs and games. And the second is that people expect it to work just like Windows. OS X avoids this because people are getting a brand new computer when they get OS X and they expect it to be different. People don't know what an operating system is and assume that if its running on the same box it should be the same if its running Linux or Windows.
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Linux is worst
No, it's just that almost everyone has been exposed to Windows and have been desensitized to its quirks. Ever try to explain the lettered drive system to someone who's 50+ and hasn't used computers before? It's just (if not more) bizarre - skipping A and B (except for computers that still have floppy drives and unless a USB drive pretends to be a floppy drive), the difference in drive naming on systems that ship with recovery partitions, the semi-random drive letter assignment to different fl
Us versus them (Score:3)
People seem programmed to seek an us-versus-them mentality. You see it everywhere: High school cross town rivalry, political partisanship, nationality (vital, but frequently overdone), preferred sports team, even the sport itself!
It is only natural for racial stereotypes to persist for this reason alone. Ugly, evil, pernicious, worth fighting against at every turn, but natural.
Re:What's going on? (Score:5, Insightful)
But starting A WAR under false pretenses stands out pretty damned far ahead of *anything* Obama has or has not done.
Free software (Score:5, Insightful)
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Being free to do what you want never means being free from community criticism.
If you treat 3rd parties like they work for you personally, or do various stupid things then you are likely to inspire some enmity.
It is far less likely that everyone will follow you off the cliff in the Unix community.
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And as long as the source code is provided how can people really object to their focus on things that make a profit? They need to survive and that means making money.
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"You can ignore the Linux world and move on."
The real world: ok.
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As pointed out below, that ZDNet link highlights server sales; it's worth pointing out that will be largely driven by enterprise sales and not web servers. The virtualised Linux server is pretty much the de facto choice for web development.
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See? Others can use that tactic too. Your low UID doesn't make you less of a troll. It just makes you someone who should have known better by now.
Hairyfeet is engaging is extremely biased commercial propaganda by quoting sales rather than numbers. He is deliberately trying to deceive the reader. Just because he is using "polite" words doesn't mean he is not being extremely rude. He is also probably engaging in fraud for commercial gain ie. astroturf.
As such he is a first class arsehole and you are an arse
what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Since when is Ubuntu the 'bad linux'?
Re:what? (Score:5, Informative)
Since when is Ubuntu the 'bad linux'?
Since they put the window buttons on the left hand side, if I remember correctly.
Re:what? (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, a real tragedy that you have to go switch the side the buttons are in the settings.
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He's not talking about the buttons being switched to the left side of the window title. He's talking about the heavy handedness of their actions.
Re:what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, a real tragedy that you have to go switch the side the buttons are in the settings.
They changed it without writing the simplest of gui configurable dialog to set it (or set it back). Instead you had to work around the default configuration with gnome's own command line configuration hacking. Then in the same breath you mention that Ubuntu is a "desktop" distro, meant for the masses while your CEO then takes the time to lambast the complaining user base that "free doesn't mean you get what you want, you get what we want".
Technically, Ubuntu didn't do a thing wrong; however, people go out of their way to avoid such behavior in friends, associates, or even strangers.
Re:what? (Score:4, Informative)
Is this a setting, now? Because when I tried it, you had to hack up a bunch of images as well as change some files somewhere. Wasn't really fun.
No you don't. Click here [howtogeek.com] for instructions with pretty pictures.
Or, just followed the instructions I so thoughtfully copied and pasted
Press Alt+F2 to bring up the Run Application dialog box, enter “gconf-editor” in the text field, and click on Run.
The Configuration Editor should pop up.
The key that we want to edit is in apps/metacity/general.
Click on the + button next to the “apps” folder, then beside “metacity” in the list of folders expanded for apps, and then click on the “general” folder.
The button layout can be changed by changing the “button_layout” key. Double-click button_layout to edit it.
Change the text in the Value text field to:
menu:maximize,minimize,close
Click OK and the change will occur immediately, changing the location of the window buttons in the Configuration Editor.
Note that this ordering of the window buttons is slightly different than the typical order; in previous versions of Ubuntu and in Windows, the minimize button is to the left of the maximize button.
You can change the button_layout string to reflect that ordering, but using the default Ubuntu 10.04 theme, it looks a bit strange.
If you plan to change the theme, or even just the graphics used for the window buttons, then this ordering may be more natural to you.
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>You can change the button_layout string to reflect that ordering
"Grandma, quit calling me, just change the button_layout string with vi. Sheez. No lets do it the easy way, type menu:maximize,minimize,close in the earlier box."
Yeah, I wonder why Ubuntu isn't at 99% marketshre.
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no, gconf-editor is as standard as it gets in gnome
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I hated it too at first but now I like the buttons on the other side. People are just hard-headed and resistant to change, even if it's better.
Also, as Ubuntu gets popular the "geeks" won't feel special/superior any more and have to go somewhere else to boost their ego.
I think I'm a pretty hard core Linux person. I have been using it for something like 17 or 18 years now. I used to like hacking the system but once I got a handle on that what I want to do now is get work done. I'm happy Ubuntu is popular
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They refuse to open their eggs from the little end!
Re:what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Since when is Ubuntu the 'bad linux'?
Since a blogger blogging for a blogging website blogged about it. Also, blog.
Re:what? (Score:5, Insightful)
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There, oblagitoried that for you
Re:what? (Score:5, Insightful)
"It's popular, so it sucks" is the mantra here.
Some fanboys just want to make their e-penis bigger by saying they use obscure, obfuscated distro X all the time. Nothing new here.
Re:what? (Score:4, Insightful)
I dunno.
There's nothing more obscure sounding than dumping the standard GNOME desktop and X along with it.
It doesn't get much more set apart from Linux and Unix in general than that.
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I've used UNIX for ~20 years and have NEVER used a GNOME desktop.
Linux != UNIX
What do those two sentences have to do with each other?
GNOME is available for many Unix and Unix-like systems. It is not exclusive to Linux. You may have never used or even seen a Linux PC but could still have used GNOME.
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>> There's nothing more obscure sounding than dumping the standard
>> GNOME desktop and X along with it. It doesn't get much more set
>> apart from Linux and Unix in general than that.
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> That doesn't mean it's the wrong decision.
In the absence of something really compelling to the contrary, yes it does actually.
Being unecessarily obscure doesn't serve anyone's interests. I'm not even sure if it benefits Canoncial.
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"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." Yogi Berra
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"Ubuntu used to be cool, but then it went all mainstream."
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***Since when is Ubuntu the 'bad linux'?***
Great question. I used Ubuntu for a while and didn't much like it, but I think I'm one of a very small minority. Except for a few eccentrics like me, the only reason that I can think of for not using Ubuntu is that when malware starts seriously attacking Unix, it'll probably go after Ubuntu first.
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I must not be up to current events, but from what I see, Ubuntu is still a very strong distribution being arguably the front-runner when it comes to the desktop Linux offerings.
Every distro has their growing pains. RedHat went through theirs, Slackware had its trials, and so on.
Regardless of the drama that might surround Ubuntu, it still will be one of the top distributions out there. Of course, there may be forks, but Ubuntu has a solid development effort behind it and is standing up to the test of time.
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flamebait (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't even particularly care for Ubuntu (as if my nick name wouldn't be a tip off), but even I think this is probably the most flamebait summary I've seen on Slashdot in a while... wtf?
Ubuntu is UI, should consider Meego over Unity (Score:3)
Many of the links in that article are actually quite useful, especially if you skip the internal references. One of them, from the 2008 Linux Plumbers Conference [kroah.com], which is dedicated to the lower-level aspects of the operating system (mostly the kernel, GNU, and X), was of particular interest as it talks about how Canonical isn't carrying its own weight, falling well below any other backer of a commercial distribution (or other Linux-depending company) on pretty much any metric and even well behind communit
Fincancial realities? Stick with Debian (Score:2)
Fincancial realities? Stick with Debian (www.debian.org), they have showed that their commitment is consistent. BTW, Ubuntu is a slightly rewoked [sic] version of Debian. RedHat created Fedora so they wouldn't 'taint' their commercial version. Again financial realities. No news in that.
Huh (Score:5, Insightful)
I admit I’m not a ubuntu fan, but I don’t take the fact that the entire FOSS community hasn’t immediately dropped everything to fall in line with Ununtu as a sign of hate.
Ubuntu seems to be as popular as ever. In fact a lot of my fellow die hard “ew, ubuntu” friends are now using it (not me though.. never.. NEVVERRRR!!!).
I think much like the google article earlier, ubuntu has gone from young upstart to just “there”. Still strong and doing it’s thing.. but everything they do is no longer news worthy, and they have attracted the usual amount of criticism and people who just plain don’t like them. This is normal.
Who's this guy ? (Score:4, Informative)
Every single word is negative
Just like he's being paid
A Microsoft Ad to begin the article
All other articles at bottom of page also negative towards Linux
I say this guy's a troll in the first degree
ciao
burdicda
Re:Who's this guy ? (Score:5, Funny)
Burma Shave
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Your Linux is just rotten
The command line's long forgotten
Be quirky [distrowatch.com] if you're brave
Burma Shave!
Amongst the Linux veterans at least ... (Score:5, Insightful)
The old joke was that Ubuntu is Swahili for "can't install Debian". I may even have heard it here.
Re:Amongst the Linux veterans at least ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Ubuntu has always been the villain. Or, you know, the thing that you watch other people use in bemusement and begrudging appreciation that your goals at least are getting served even if it's not by methods of which you approve. The old joke was that Ubuntu is Swahili for "can't install Debian". I may even have heard it here.
I have the distinct feeling that because Ubuntu is viewed as a distro 'for the masses', and die hard Linux users tend to view themselves as 'above the masses', it makes perfect sense that Ubuntu was/is seen as the 'villain' distro. After all, if the masses started using Linux then all the die hards would have to go somewhere else to feel superior.
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>The old joke was that Ubuntu is Swahili for "can't install Debian". I may even have heard it here.
I've been running Debian for years (slink). From stable on servers, testing on the development machines and unstable on my personal (desk|lap)tops. But I finally caved for Ubuntu for my personal desktop after I found that a Ubuntu live CD managed to work out of the box on my HP TX1100, the usual exceptions off course the fingerprint reader and ndiswrapper for wlan (thank you Broadcom for crappy drivers and
poor inkscapee & his imaginary friend (Score:2)
Wow, terrible article (Score:5, Insightful)
The love went (Score:3)
To Arch. A bare bones distro with excellent documentation turns out to be a much better experience than layers and layers of GUI junk that never works right anyway.
It's unprofitable? (Score:3)
The article claims the company is unprofitable but how would anyone outside know if Canonical is profitable? Isn't it privately held? I've never heard of a private company publishing their numbers. I couldn't find any data to back up either side outside of rumor or hearsay. Does anyone have any info regarding this?
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Last I checked, they're an Isle of Man company. Big difference.
Satisfied Ubuntu user (Score:2)
Slashvertisement (Score:2)
TFA is BS; Ubuntu is pushing Linux forward nicely (Score:5, Interesting)
Typical cat fight (Score:2)
BLOGMYGOD (Score:5, Informative)
The Linux "Community" (gack!) can be embarrassing (Score:5, Insightful)
Perhaps this trolling story has accomplished its goal: I'm about to abandon all Linux Distros forever just to avoid being considered a part of such an assholish "community" (gag). Seriously, people were down on Ubuntu the minute it became popular. If Ubuntu was successful, obviously it must be evil. And if their distro is coherent, easy to install, use and update, well then it's for the newbie masses, and must be ungood.
Or they set up defaults in a way that didn't please you, though you can easily configure it any way you wanted. No, they were "ramming their dictatorial decisions down my throat". Godz, how many times have I heard that! Oh, but asking someone to configure something is too hard for the newbies. But wait a minute, I thought Ubuntu was bad because it was too newbie-friendly.
A bunch of confused, hypocritical, self-contradictory, whining assholes. If you don't like a distro, FFS don't use it - it's really quite that simple. There's a distro out there for everyone.
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The only real difference I've noti
The summary sucks... (Score:3)
And the article itself is a bunch of hooey.
It's almost like I'm on 4chan/g/
Personally, I like Ubuntu even while I find fault with it. While nothing is perfect, out of all the distributions, it has the least amount of BS.
That is until you try to add the kubuntu meta-package. Friends don't let friends add the kubuntu meta-package - they do kde-full instead.
Speaking of which, the Pardus team could certainly teach the kubuntu idiots how to configure KDE. Pardus is god-tier KDE.
Particular note to any Kubuntu devs here: You have done more harm to the adoption of KDE than anyone else on the planet. You're incompetent.
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BMO
Vista SP1 and Window 7 came out? (Score:3)
Where did the love go? (Score:3)
The remaining fanbois went on to post on phoronix.
Re:Where did the love go? (Score:4, Interesting)
I got the shits with Ubuntu when they went from FSpot to Shotwell with no migration path. I have a large amount of data that means a lot to me personally and all of a sudden it's simply deprecated. (FSpot is still installable but bugs that render it useless [launchpad.net] simply don't get fixed).
Changing window managers, colour schemes etc is one thing but abandoning software that looks after things that people have significant personal investment in is a recipe for justified discontent.
Seeing as I would have to re-import all my photos into Shotwell anyway I decided to buy an iMac and have them all tucked safely away in iPhoto instead.
I still have my Ubuntu box and will continue to follow future releases but I'm not sure I will trust it with anything important until it demonstrates that transitioning user data to new releases is looked after well. I like the sometimes experimental nature of Ubuntu but it needs to temper that with supporting users through any change.
Just another successful OSS (not FOSS) company (Score:3)
How is this different from Redhat/Fedora and Novell/OpenSuSE?
The author has a point: Canonical has finally reached the same levels of RedHat and Novell--that's the conclusion I got from his article, everything else is opinion.
FYI, all 3 make great products and work with the FOSS, they don't manage the FOSS community...
Re:Did I miss something? (Score:4, Insightful)
Deciding to make a mobile interface the default desktop for 28" monitors was probably somewhere close to the turning point.
Re:Did I miss something? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Ubuntu got popular. (Score:5, Funny)
The unwashed masses run Windows. ... ... ...
The elite run OSX.
The elite of the elite run Ubuntu.
The elite of the elite of the elite run Debian.
I run AmigaOS. Yeah, you feel my cool don't you?