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> - Utter inability to consume streaming video, be it Netflix, Hulu or YouTube. I'm sort of curious what version of Ubuntu you installed. I've installed Ubunt
by Goladus 15y ago
> - Utter inability to consume streaming video, be it Netflix, Hulu or YouTube.
I'm sort of curious what version of Ubuntu you installed. I've installed Ubuntu 10.4, the default install, on a number of machines and have had zero problems with streaming video (Hulu or Youtube). I've had issues playing encrypted DVDs, but I think I just need to install a codec or something.
> Out-of-date crappy versions of libraries available through apt-get.
This is an inherent problem with the very concept of a distribution, and doesn't really go away with OS X.
Generally if you want bleeding edge software, you're better off building from source no matter what the distribution, although you might be able to tweak your sources.list to use unstable repositories.
- jedbrown 15y agoDebian Sid and Archlinux are functional rolling release distros.
- shazow 15y agoAnd Gentoo.
- Goladus 15y agoYou're still making the same tradeoff, though it's less obvious.
- jedbrown 15y agoSure, but building everything from source yourself is a lot of effort to maintain. You can go with something like NixOS, but it's also a hassle to use because nothing is in the "standard places". If you generally want the latest release of everything, then go with a rolling release distro. You can build old versions from source or through namespaced legacy packages. If you generally want year-old packages, then go with an incremental release and build your own version of those things you need the latest release of. I have found this to generally be more effort, but I tend to want the latest compilers and base libraries (not least because I want issues like reduced header promiscuity to cause breakage on my machine first instead of handling the support tickets when it breaks on a user's machine).