Linked by Kroc Camen on Sun 13th Sep 2009 16:33 UTC
"For the last 12 months, I have used Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, and 9.04 as my primary OSes. I remain a very happy Linux convert, but I worry that Ubuntu is being unevenly developed. Certain areas have seen great improvements over the last 12 months, while other areas have languished or been largely ignored. The purpose of this article is not to whine or rant, but to bring some perspective to the evolution (or lack thereof) that Ubuntu has experienced between versions 8.04 and 9.04."
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This has, as far as I know, much to do with legal restrictions. Of course, it would be great just to install mplayer with all codecs from one binary package. But sadly, the sheer amount of different codecs and the restrictions about many of them make it different. If users would stick to open formats that completely could replace the proprietary ones, the problem you mentioned wouldn't be there.
Well, maybe someone should think about making Linux (and the various distro) "Legal" in some form, god forbid even if we had to pay a "little" something for it. The reverse engineering used to make things work right now is flaky.
Maybe, just maybe, if Linux was made "Legal", we would enjoy much better support from hardware makers and big software devs.
Right now, I can't understand how a Linux user could seriously say that he can do EVERYTHING, with EASE, VS another user running Windows.
Think of Apple and OS X. If Apple could do it, have a OS with a nice GUI, Bling, softwares, legal with all codecs working... I guess Linux could do it too. Windows is not the only OS that can do it all.
Edited 2009-09-13 22:07 UTC