Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Wed 13th Apr 2005 06:51 UTC
I've only been using GNU/Linux since 2001, so I won't say that I'm by any means an expert yet, as most of those that are reading this, probably have been using Linux much longer than I have. However, I still have high hopes for the Linux scene. The purpose of this article is to voice my personal opinion on what I feel is keeping GNU/Linux from taking over the mainstream operating system market. My intentions aren't to "badtalk" the open source kernel+apps, but rather give constructive criticsm on what I personally feel it could be done better.
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Half the article is a result of you not using Ubuntu. The other half is a result of you not using GNOME. Here's how you install the Macromedia Flash Player for FireFox. Download http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/shockwave/flash/english/linux/...
When it finishes click Open in the download manager (same as on windows), the GNOME archive viewer will open (same as WinZip), click extract and press ok (same as WinZip), open a file browser window to where you extracted it (just like you would on windows), double click on flashplayer-installer. Now that process was annoying and unnecessary I'll give you, but there's a lot of things like that on Windows. If Macromedia want to make their download more accessible they should simply package it into an APT.