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The fault lies with the Linux programmers and the Linux distribution companies who refuse or simply too lazy to talk to hardware companies to get hardware support improved.

In your dreams.

Dearth - shortage, commonly used in the context of food.

I know what 'dearth' means. The difficulty with you is not understanding your middle-school vocabulary, it's with figuring out what planet you're observing when you make these bananas claims.

There is a shortage, apart from some 'compatibility' and 'emulation' applications, by enlarge, there is no proprietary third party network; why haven't Novell and Red Hat done anything to encourage third parties to release desktop software for Linux? why don't these organisations invest money into the respective companies as to pay for the porting of those applications?

How do you know they haven't, O Omniscient One? What if they refuse (or are paid off by Microsoft, like Corel)? It takes two to Tango.

You can do it right now; go down to your local computer assembly place and purchase one; white box manufacturers make up over 50% of the computers sold globally, they're hardly a weird thing.

I seriously question your claim that over 50% of computers sold to the public are DIY jobs. I would also seriously question any claim you might make that (a) it's easy to get a laptop supplied without Windows or (b) a significant proportion of those are DIY jobs.

Ok, we'll rely on Crossover - why don't I see the big distributors work with Crossover and third parties to add to wine as to allow greater compatibility between Windows applications and wine? there seems to be alot of things which the linux distributors fail to do - simply sitting on the side lines *hoping* for a company to port to Linux isn't a viable long term stratergy.

It would be nice if, for once, one of you Windows-worshipping Linux-doubting Thomases would actually specify at least one of these nebulous "problems" with Linux.

Do you actually know what is involved with creating software? Is it hard to understand that "the problems with Wine" are because Windows is closed source with (allegedly) secret API's and therefore there is NO information "out in the wild" which would help to alleviate these problems. If Wine isn't perfect, it's amazing it works as well as it does.


As for Scribus; great tool, and what I think they should do is start offering a 'add on pack' which includes an array of templates and clipart for a nominal fee - the money acquired from those sales could fund the project itself.

Great! Let's turn one of the foremost free software packages into a carrot for the stick of proprietary software!!!

Don't you people actually understand that FOSS users will PAY for software that is worth their time WITHOUT all your proprietary penis extensions?