The Ubuntu Experiment

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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.
>   
Nope. But users TRYING Ubuntu for the first time will appreciate the 
LiveCD "Hey, you can try it without destroying your original PC if you 
aren't sure yet"...
>   
>> 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
>
>   
Thanks! One LESS reason to keep the big Windows machine at home (now 
that GIMP/uRAW can read my Canon RAW files). :)
>> 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).
>   
Nope. Not a Vista user. But it's got a lot of eye candy... you 
mentionned the panorama tool, there is the media player, video editor, 
mail, web... all that pre-included. Direct download of photos from 
cameras. Printing (without having to configure CUPS). Automatic network 
discovery. So many things that make life easier... that are on Linux as 
well... but sometimes you need to do just a little bit of extra work to 
get it perfect.

>> 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.
>   
Ease of use is critical. People still think Linux = geek OS...

Gilles.
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