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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.04.24 14:47:00 -
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I tried Ubuntu about 2 or 3 years ago out of curiousity and was impressed. My previous experience with Linux (while at Uni about 6 years ago) had been FreeBSD, SuSE and Red Hat (all of which I found far too complicated). The thing that struck me most about Ubuntu was that it didn't feel like Linux. It didn't have that scary Linux complexity that frightens off lazy Windows users.
Suffice it to say that I never really got into Ubuntu because all my software is Windows based and I'm a lazy Windows user like I mentioned above. I plug a disc in and it works. I didn't care how or why.
But then Vista came along and I started to read about DRM and even tried it out for myself. It's nice looking but (like a good looking female) is high maintenance and demanding. I'm seriously thinking about going back to using Ubuntu and figuring out how to use WINE. If Vista is the future, then Mr Gates can kiss my dog's butt.
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 Originally by: Valorem
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.04.24 14:52:00 -
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Oh, and DS is right about Dell. I read it on the BBC News website. Apparently they've had over 11,000 complaints from their users asking them to offer the option of having XP pre-installed on new machines.
Microsoft have tried to play this down by saying that it was only a small number of Dell customers who asked for this. But 11,000 kinda speaks for itself. Sorry I don't have a linky, but it was on the BBC News website about a week or so ago.
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Originally by: Valorem
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.04.24 15:11:00 -
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Originally by: Ealiom
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You are right it is not easy. I wish them well but i can see it going the way just about every other version of linux has went.
SuSE is still going after about 10 years. Red Hat is going strong under a new name. FreeBSD is still widely used in Universities (although it's technically not Linux). Ubuntu has been around for over 5 years. There are also other linux distributions that are still going strong. Debian, Mandrake/Mandriva, etc. So you're slightly wrong about your pessimistic outlook there.
I'm not a linux user but have been aware of it's existence for years and continue to look at news on the various distributions I've tried out.
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Originally by: Valorem
*snip* Please be civil - Valorem
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