Cam wrote:
Eric,
Do you really think that a substantial population of adopters are
ready and waiting but held back because mp3 isn't in Fedora?
...
-Cam
Yes. And not only MP3 itself is the problem, there are also movies and
games that don't fit *any* distribution into a *real* competitor for M$.
Yes, OpenOffice it's cool, and yes I love all of the KDE, GNOME, k3b,
amarok, banshee, gimp, kdevelop, inkscape ... and all the other best
written application in the OpenSource world and even all this bleeding
edge technology incorporated in Fedora like SELinux or Xen, but the most
users don't care about all that. They want to see a movie, play a game
or install software (for that, they even pay money for) _easy_. This
_easy_ component is a crucial one, because as it was stated in another
post you *can not* tell a user to edit some /etc/ file to get his
drivers working, you *can not* tell a user he has dependencies problems
simply because in his mind they don't exist, you *can not* put a user
who has spent thousands of dollars on a multimedia system to configure
it from console or worse his system doesn't work because it was build
from the ground only with M$ products in mind, etc. etc. I could go on
and on about that. My point is this one: There _is a substantial
population of adopters ready and waiting but held back because
multimedia isn't in Fedora_, and I am really sorry for that... but I
simply LOVE RedHat because they didn't include that support, because the
are fighting to the root of the problem, and that's software patents.
Sooner or later some M$ users will wake up and see they are in fact in
slavery and decide to take action.
I know at least several ways how can people be encouraged to switch to
Linux.
- Better desktop experience. Cool themes and gDesklets or superKaramba
don't stay unnoticed. 3D stuff is also Ok :)
- Better OpenSource cross-platform applications. If someone uses all the
day only gimp & OpenOffice it won't be a drama for him to use his
applications on Linux and not on Windows. Presentation of other "hot"
*NIX only application at LUGs (e.g. kdevelop, amarok, quanta, bluefish,
etc. etc.)
- _Easy_ (graphically wold do) to install missing multimedia from Internet.
- Graphical configuration of most of the things.
I think at least those are some reasons of the huge GNOME/Ubuntu success
and I respect that.
Anyway I use Fedora/KDE for my Desktop and also Fedora for my servers
and I want to tell you: RedHat and Fedora community did a great job.
Thank you.
Bogdan
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