Ubuntu is the best! I hope Mark is doing more deals so that more applications is easily installable for Ubuntu/Linux.

While this article is better, all your other linux articles are hating on the platform. Furthermore, you spewed a fair amount of FUD about Linux prior to this article.

Break out of the proprietary world you live in Pablo! I know you want to. Quit being a shill for MS. Honestly, Vista? If you’re going to use Windows, at least use XP.

In any event, I actually dugg this story. I still think you’re wrong about proprietary software being ported to Linux. The masses don’t care about the software they have. A lot of people don’t even change their wallpaper, let alone install fancy applications. Deals with hardware manufacturers, in my opinion, are the #1 thing Linux distributions can do to fight back against MS.

Not to rain on your parade, but you only use GNU/Linux from a practical perspective. Most GNU/Linux users and developers also adhere to a philosophical perspective.

In the absence of that perspective, you are nothing but another mere user. You won’t uphold the ideal of computing freedom the moment MS comes out with something you regard to be better than GNU/Linux.

For most of “us”, members of the “community”, the adobes of this world are anathema. They lock up their software and they can change the rules on you on out of the blue if it props up their bottom line.

As long as Adobe relies on unethical, divisive licensing for their software, the community won’t care too much. Wine is there for the forbidden fruit. Closed Source software really is delivered AS IS. If the version you got works, good, but no guarantees for the future.

Ubuntu Linux will continue to gain market share…. with or without proprietary software. The reason closed source applications are not being developed is because the software companies do not think they can make a huge profit with this type of software. Let’s face it, there are lots of open source software choices for Linux. All you have to do is use apt-get …. instantly the package and all dependencies are downloaded and installed. What could be easier?
If you think proprietary software is necessary for Linux to grow… you’ve missed the boat!

Sir, In your first paragraph, antagonized should be spelled with a ‘z’, not an ’s’. In your article’s title, the word ‘on’ should be deleted from the last sentence, leaving “Stop hating me”.

Jeesh!!! When did Linux become a religion? A “Philosophical Perspective”? Gimme A Break!! It’s a fucking Operating System!!

As for “proprietary software”, I would think it would be up to the programmer whether or not he/she wanted to charge for their efforts. Linux is not “better” because it’s “free”, or “free” because it’s “better”. That’s just a fanboy delusion. In many ways, and for many people, Linux is ANYTHING but “better” (myself included).

There are still many things which keep me from using Linux on a regular basis: the poor way Linux handles multiple monitors; the fact that I have to learn a programming language to do a simple thing like install a driver; the hap-hazard way Linux stores/installs files; the non-standardization of distribution packages; and the juvenile responses I get whenever I ask a question in a Linux “support group”. All just to name a few.

** Jeesh!!! When did Linux become a religion? A “Philosophical Perspective”? Gimme A Break!! It’s a f*cking Operating System!! **

This is exactly why you people will never get FOSS, be it GNU/Linux or not. The guiding principle is freedom and equality through licensing. Being able to use your computer without being subjected to the rules of a commercial entity. GNU/Linux may be a bit inconvenient at times, but which OS isn’t.

I’m wasting my time here though. You will accept any provision foisted upon you, if it will make your world bite size and convenient.

“Bite size and convenient” is EXACTLY what I want from a computer. I don’t want to spend all day teaching my OS to do a new trick. I just want to sit down and USE it. And when I walk down the software aisle BestBuy, I want to know that there might be something in there that I’m able to take home and run! That seems to be the attitude of most people I know. And, yeah you’re wasting your time if you’re trying to convince us otherwise.

Its sad how many zealots read this blog and flame. I agree, if I wrote something awesome, why should I share it? Be happy that I wrote it for linux and you can either pay and use it, pirate it, or just not use it at all and use whatever GNU/FREE (as in beer) alternative there is to it.

Personally, I love the gimp, but Photoshop is the industry standard. Try taking a university course on GIMP, it doesnt exist. However there are classes for Photoshop.. I wonder why?

To all the closed-minded linux users out there, stop flaming and start helping. Claim that I’m a user because I run Vista, XP, Linux, and a hackintosh, I cant pick what I like the best because nothing really fits the bill for the “best os”. Everything has its faults, and nothing is perfect in this less than perfect electron age.

You have been bashing Linux in all your articles and you say you care ? Stop being a fanboi of MS for real…If you cared that much , You would be on Launchpad filing bugs instead of writing shi* on the internet. .

I agree I think the only thing stopping Linux from being the #1 desktop is the fact that if I buy something for my computer the cd that comes with needs to have Linux on it, however there are some problems with that in the fact that they have to supply the source code or a packaged binary. The solution to this of course would be to have standard binary package management system. But trying to get this thru to the Linux community falls on deaf ears because apparently I don’t understand I idea of ‘freedom of choice’. But do you really need umpteen different forms binary packages that aren’t compatible?