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It really boggles the mind why some folks truly believe that the Buntu's have what it takes to beat MS or even that they think its the best distro out there. It is a decent distro, but it certainly is not better than a host of others who are far ahead of it in functionality and performance. Is it because it has Corporate backing? Is it because it spews out masses of cd's to whomever will take them?.. This certainly should not be the justification for naming it "the leading distro"?! Here is something to think about..

1) The Buntu's dont preconfigure a users video card (nvidia/ati) on install. This is not just foolish, it is stupid and makes no sense! Do you really believe an MS user is going to drop windows over a distro that cant even do this?.. HAH!

2) The buntu's dont preconfigure flash or flash apps,and java. See #1 above. Things like Youtube will not work out of the box on install!!! Flash cant be installed at all on amd64 machines on the Buntu's.

3) The buntu's are backed by a Corporate entity. This makes them suspect for a number of reasons, foremost of which is --- What are Canonicals intentions? Do you really believe they will continue to push thier pet distro for free? Isnt what Canonical is doing, the same as what MS did during the late 80's/early 90's?!

4) The Buntu's do not preconfigure Compiz/Beryl and in fact, quite alot of hacking is required to get it up and running properly on a 64 bit system. Eye candy goes a long way with the MS and MAC crowd and sells! Other distro's such as Sabayon do not suffer from any of the above and in fact, all things work out of the box -- So again, what makes the Buntu's better than a system such as Sabayon, or PCLos, or SuSe, or SimplyMepis, or PuppyLinux, or Mint?!!!...

Brainless hype on an inferior distro wont get the Linux world any closer to beating MS on the desktop folks! Please stop the FUD and start pushing distro's that are far better and more well thought out. Better yet, STOP PUSHING linux distro's and leave us real Linux lovers in peace! TBH, I could care less if Linux dominates the global desktop Market. The implications of that will, in the end, destroy the concept of Linux and open source as we enjoy it today because lawsuits will start to fly, the open source apps we all love to use will go proprietary or get shut down from litigation, the distro's we love (like the Buntu's) will no longer remain free. Think about this before you all get in some mad rush to kill MS because right now, thier bumbling about is more of an ally to Linux than ever before (aka Vista).

One more thing and ill shut up. Linux is about freedom. Dont any of you ever forget that please. By pushing and touting one distro over another, you are killing that freedom for new users in one form or another. By telling a Linux know-nothing, "Ubuntu IS the Linux distro of choice", you are in effect sending the impression to the noob that Ubuntu is the end all - be all of linux distro's, which truthfully is NOT the case. That noob will form his/her impressions on thier experiences from that mess and then decide to return to windows because of it. You do the Linux world a great disservice by doing that because that same noob may have gone full bore Linux had he/she tried a real distro like Sabayon, SuSe, PCLos, Mint, PuppyLinux, SimplyMepis, etc. and enjoyed the experience of a fully functional and WORKING system out of the box that Ubuntu does not offer.