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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 1, 2012 16:05 UTC (Sun) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by tuna
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

Ubuntu has got worse over the years, but this illustrates the problem with desktop Linux - if the most popular distro is actually a bad choice, you need to be even more expert to choose the right one (and configure it, as Ubuntu is generally easy to set up, though with too many bugs).


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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 1, 2012 19:04 UTC (Sun) by tuna (guest, #44480) [Link]

I think this illustrates the problems with Ubuntu, and what Ubuntu promises its users. I do not know what the "desktop Linux" community can do about that.

Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 2, 2012 11:01 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

Ubuntu isn't alone. Problems like this appear on every distribution, old stable and brand new... and they're usually never fixed. The answer, instead, is to upgrade to the new release which may have fixes and certainly breaks other things.

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