The Ubuntu Experiment

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/7/30 Gilles Gravier <gilles at gravier.org>:
> As I mentionned :
> - Live CD
> - Free updates (no registration)

From experience, that won't interest home users! We need a 'you can do
this' not a 'you are free from this' approach. And home users won't
need a LiveCD.

> By the way, panoramas in Windows are much better with professional tools
> like AutoPano (unfortunately unavailable on Linux)

AutoPano for Linux:
http://www.autopano.net/buy-autopano/download.html

> OK... You can add :
>
> - Zonefree DVD playing (with libdvdcss installed)

That's a good one!

> - No need for an antivirus

That's a great one!

> - In general the sheer quantity of similar functions that you get on
> Vista... but for free.

Can you provide precise examples (I am unfamiliar with Vista, fortunately).

> Keep in mind that most modern operating systems can mostly all do the
> same things... just in different ways (different costs, different GUIs,
> different constraints). So trying to show things that can't be done on
> Vista will :
>
> 1) Be hard
> 2) Lead to a pissing contest where Vista will likely win in "number of
> proprietary features not available on Linux"
>

Good point. Maybe we could point out ease of use. I don't think that
customization is a good point either, but for some people it is
important.

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