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Canonical's business model?Canonical's business model?Posted Aug 22, 2008 1:10 UTC (Fri) by ofeeley (guest, #36105)In reply to: Canonical's business model? by Cato Parent article: In defense of Ubuntu
Again, where's the usability? The only things you pointed to the last time were the results of Red Hat hackers' work on Java and then some dodgy Flash stuff and media codecs. The latter are just as available in Fedora or Gentoo or whatever as they are in Ubuntu for those that want that stuff. I've used Ubuntu fairly recently (not out of choice) and am not blown away by any usability differences between it and any of the other current major distros. I again invite you to point to some metric so that this is not merely a yes-it-is-no-it-isnt exchange. Otherwise you may as well merely shorten your post to "I have no problem with proprietary software and patented codecs and I like the Ubuntu wallpaper."
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Canonical's business model? Posted Aug 22, 2008 1:22 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link] it's lots of little things, the fact that the installer doesn't need to ask you a million questions spread out over an hours time, but asks you a couple questions up front and then goes and does it's thing is one of them. individually they are trivial, but togeather they make it easier for people who don't already know where to go for everything. you don't see the difference becouse you are already familiar with the tools and just go to the right place. but if you were to setup two identical machines with different distros and give them to people unfamiliar with linux, the _experiance_ (note, experiance, not speculation) that people have is that Ubuntu generates less frustration and fewer questions than the other distros. you don't see it? ok, you don't. nobody is trying to force you to use ubuntu, you are free to use the distro of your choice. just do us all a favor and stop bad-mouthing the distro that others choose just becouse it's not the one you like?
Canonical's business model? Posted Aug 22, 2008 6:08 UTC (Fri) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] I don't have the time or energy to defend my choice of Ubuntu any further - feel free to use the distro you prefer. Maybe it would be good to spend more time improving and evangelising that distro rather than criticising Ubuntu?
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