I also have a hard time taking people seriously who use bold type and 1995 web design like your homepage. Maybe you missed the part about how having animated-gifs all over your geocities page is bad web design style. Obviously you’re just poor and have a lot of free time to spend hours configuring all of your codecs.

Daniel Kelly & everyone – I think you did a great job on this posting, except for one part – you forgot to mention a lot of other issues Ubuntu has as well. Here’s a couple more: DVD’s don’t work out of the box which is really intuitive, sometimes installs go horribly wrong and people either can’t boot to Ubuntu or Windows because of a problem with the installer, sometimes when I had it my computer would just freeze up entirely. Ubuntu is a crappy OS. Most of the programs and code is just borrowed from other distributions like Fedora and Red Hat, so all the things Ubuntu users brag about are usually not part of the project anyway!

And I’m pretty sure WINE does stand for windows emulator but I’m not sure. If it doesn’t it should, because that’s what it does, actually that’s all it really does. It’s not a virtual machine so it’s not a hardware emu its a software (Windows) emu.

I made this post using Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 RC. I use Microsoft Office, Project, Visio, and Small Business Server. I love Microsoft products. They’ve dropped the ball in the past, just as GNU/Linux does all the time but overall it’s great and always getting better. See I have the money to pay for my stuff because I work for a living and I don’t have time to screw around with experiments on my computer. Windows 7 blows Ubuntu out of the water. The main reason is because Microsoft has a market they need to respond to, but Ubuntu really doesn’t have to worry so much since they don’t have to worry about sales. That’s what I hate most about the FSF GPL and FOSS in general, it’s all so communist. The invisible hand works magic and it’s the reason why Windows has always kicked Linux’ ass on the desktop.

“This is not to say that Linux is perfect–but it’s much more usable than as you portray it, and it’s getting better every day. As someone who uses various flavors of Windows and Linux, I can honestly say that I miss Linux when I’m forced to use Windows too much.”

So do I. But the point of this article was exactly what the headline suggests, so what did you expect? I’m doing a follow up, as I said previously, that will talk about all the great features. Also, regardless of what the acronym for wine really means, it is by definition, en emulator. Sure, it doesn’t emulate x86 (a hardware platform) but it does emulate a software platform.

You are also seriously wrong about the codecs issue. I rarely find a video that VLC and/or MPlayer cannot play–and multimedia is one of my specialities. Maybe you’re sourcing your codecs wrong.

This is not to say that Linux is perfect–but it’s much more usable than as you portray it, and it’s getting better every day. As someone who uses various flavors of Windows and Linux, I can honestly say that I miss Linux when I’m forced to use Windows too much.

~~ ScienceMikey

Also, to Tom Drazul: You entirely missed the point of this article didn’t you? The point wasn’t to nit pick Ubuntu or to promote/demote it, it was to warn people about people like you!

Kaingeo: My mom hardly knows how to use a computer. She DOES double click on hyperlinks LOL!

I’m a big fan of windows xp and windows 7. I’m willing to pay for an OS as long as I can use my computer. Needless to say, me and him broke up because he was too big of an idiot and my parents hated him after that. It could have costed my dad a lot more money, but luckily he knows someone who was able to get it off and put windows back on and restore all his files and programs.

How are those? Ultimately though, there’s exceptions to almost any rule and it doesn’t disprove anything I said in the post.

If your mother runs ubuntu also join in: https://launchpad.net/~my-mom-runs-ubuntu