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But What the heck is Ubuntu? Does it run Win32 Programs?
I use WinXP here. Wouldn't want anything else.
I run fedora 9(main),
there are problem with drivers on linux distros, true, but you can't say vista doesn't have them, either
why do you even care so much about windows programs?
I'm an engineer at heart and I want to make sure that when I make a robot I make the most technically sound design I can.I understand what you want, but I think it's irrelevant when it comes to robotics. Interoperability with Windows for robotics? Doesn't hurt. Does the OS have to be Windows? No.
No games! Or at least, not many games to speak of. No, I don't mean running an emulator to support Windows games. No, I don't mean the emulators for arcade and Nintendo. I want to play, not emulate. Native, platform games, made for it and working with it. No, I don't mean some text-mode rogue thing or the nerdy little puzzle games that come with the Gnome and KDE. When will Linux decide to pay more attention to the fun side?Chasing windows. Seriously, it's nice that most distributions went from all the command and console stuff to a full desktop-capable system like Macs and Windows. Now it needs to find its own look. Too many distributions out there are trying to be a perfect clone of Windows XP; if I want XP, I know where to find it. Get Linux over its insecurity complex and have it make up its own "look and feel" already!All the hardware is supported - except mine. Can I get this digital camera working? 800 drivers for digital cameras - nope mine isn't on the list. What about the wireless card? Dozens of brands supported - whoops, I bought the wrong one! I'm tired of playing hardware bingo - either I'm very unlucky at it, or there's still some big holes to fill.Problems coming up to a desktop. At least detect good default settings for a monitor and video card, and then give me an easy way to fix the size and color depth if I need to. Many, many distributions do this, so the ones that don't and either haul off and boot me to a plaid striped letterbox screen or leave me at a console trying to guess what my monitor's vertical refresh rates is are even guiltier by comparison. It's all open source, so the distributions that get it wrong can just borrow from the ones that get it right, right?Inner-Linux flame wars. KDE versus Gnome! Emacs versus vi! Ubuntu versus Mandriva! All of these are fought just as feverishly as if they... cost money. Hey, you're giving it all away for free, so who cares what anybody uses?FOSS purity. Okay, I loaded a closed-source driver onto my system so my video card will work. Do I have to be nailed to a wall for it? Yes, I know open source is the one true way - and if all the drivers are open one day, that will make me very happy. In the mean time, I care about what works first. Ditto the haggling over licenses - there's forty of them, most of them differ in one or two details, and thinking about legal stuff gives the user side of me a headache.Obsession over taking over from Windows. When is the year of Linux on the desktop? Who cares? Look, again, you're giving it away for free, so if you take over 98% of Microsoft's market share, you are ahead exactly how far?Linux devotees are too serious. Because you can't post a list like this and not have a bunch of them come flame you. Lighten up. Your system's fine. We love you. You're big enough now to take your beating along with the other platforms.