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RE: Canonical hits back at Microsoft in netbook spat
Loverock Davidson 14th Apr 2009
Awww poor little linux is getting spanked on all fronts and is now having a hissy fit about it. I mean seriously, does anyone at ubuntu have a clue?

"It also supports them without the need to search for drivers on dubious websites or load drivers from a CD," Kenyon coughed. "Just plug and play."

Yeah right, I'll believe it when I see it. Just plug and play after you download the source code from the website, extract the source using complicated commands in a terminal window, take a lucky guesses at which command switches you need to go with some obscure set of commands to get it to compile cleanly, let it install the files in whatever random directory it wants, then search for an hour as to where it put the files, spend a few more hours tweaking the config files for it, then run it and watch it segfault and lead to a kernel panic. That is not easier than downloading drives and clicking on an install file or popping in a cd that will automatically install it for you.

There is a reason people are not choosing linux on the netbook, its as simple as people just don't want to deal with the hassles of running it. The limited games, being able to play only one sound at a time assuming you have drivers for your sound card,the overall lack of multimedia, and its incompatibility with the rest of the world makes it pretty much useless.

If ubuntu developers spent more time making their OS actually work instead of complaining like a 5 year old girl they *might* see a rise in their usage. But as it stands now me and millions of others are giving them the cold shoulder because they do not do what we ask.
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