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Send your $200/yr to the free OS that comes the closest to "just works" for you, even if you don't use it. If everyone did that, our free OSes would be far bett

by rlpb 11y ago

Send your $200/yr to the free OS that comes the closest to "just works" for you, even if you don't use it. If everyone did that, our free OSes would be far better than any other alternative.

tajen 11y ago
"If everyone did that", yes, but everyone isn't. That's where marketing is important. I wish Elementary.io were a fully-assumed for-profit able to trigger a snowball effect of customers around a Mac-level quality. Especially as Mac OS X quality is decreasing.
balamaci 11y ago
It's hard to decide to give them something with this list of options - really what can you choose here http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=16.04&architecture=amd64 http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=1... the alternatives are: 1. Ubuntu for personal and mobile computing - I want convergence now! - really? I'm just afraid it will push the desktop version to suck more like Unity. 2. Ubuntu for cloud computing - I want Ubuntu running my cloud and as a guest in my cloud of choice. - well I'd rather have Ubuntu be my desktop choice and have them more focused on that. 3.Ubuntu for things - I want a secure, upgradeable Internet of Things, powered by Ubuntu. - Well, Raspbian lite has got that covered, will ubuntu further strip down a debian or where do they think they want to improve for IoT? 4.Community projects I support LoCo teams, UbuCons and other events, upstream projects and all the good work the community does. - well I'm afraid the money will mostly go into t-shirts and beer conferences. If you guarantee the money goes to upstream projects I'm down for that option at least. 5.Tip to Canonical - Hats off for making Ubuntu possible. Keep it up. - Well yeah, but what does that mean considering from the other options(convergence, cloud, iot) does a tip mean I endorse this new path instead of desktop focus? At least before they had some option about addressing driver incompatibilities.. Someone please help me/us choose.. I want to spend money for an open source OS for my desktop as to to not make me feel naked in front of Microsoft employees when I browse the internet.

by rlpb 11y ago

Send your $200/yr to the free OS that comes the closest to "just works" for you, even if you don't use it. If everyone did that, our free OSes would be far better than any other alternative.

tajen 11y ago

"If everyone did that", yes, but everyone isn't. That's where marketing is important. I wish Elementary.io were a fully-assumed for-profit able to trigger a snowball effect of customers around a Mac-level quality. Especially as Mac OS X quality is decreasing.

balamaci 11y ago

It's hard to decide to give them something with this list of options - really what can you choose here http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=16.04&architecture=amd64 http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=1... the alternatives are: 1. Ubuntu for personal and mobile computing - I want convergence now! - really? I'm just afraid it will push the desktop version to suck more like Unity. 2. Ubuntu for cloud computing - I want Ubuntu running my cloud and as a guest in my cloud of choice. - well I'd rather have Ubuntu be my desktop choice and have them more focused on that. 3.Ubuntu for things - I want a secure, upgradeable Internet of Things, powered by Ubuntu. - Well, Raspbian lite has got that covered, will ubuntu further strip down a debian or where do they think they want to improve for IoT? 4.Community projects I support LoCo teams, UbuCons and other events, upstream projects and all the good work the community does. - well I'm afraid the money will mostly go into t-shirts and beer conferences. If you guarantee the money goes to upstream projects I'm down for that option at least. 5.Tip to Canonical - Hats off for making Ubuntu possible. Keep it up. - Well yeah, but what does that mean considering from the other options(convergence, cloud, iot) does a tip mean I endorse this new path instead of desktop focus? At least before they had some option about addressing driver incompatibilities.. Someone please help me/us choose.. I want to spend money for an open source OS for my desktop as to to not make me feel naked in front of Microsoft employees when I browse the internet.