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I doubt that Ubuntu is "the forefront of 'Linux on the Desktop'" because it is willing to compromise and use binary blobs and the like. The reason is that ther
by iso8859-1 14y ago
I doubt that Ubuntu is "the forefront of 'Linux on the Desktop'" because it is willing to compromise and use binary blobs and the like.
The reason is that there is a proper organization that people trust and understand behind it (Canonical). People with incentives, money and ads.
Idealism has little to do with it. Granted, Ubuntu would be a bit less popular if they were as pure, but I don't think it makes much of a difference in the end.
- sliverstorm 14y agoI beg to differ. It's surely not the only reason, but I remember back around 5.10, there were a lot of people observing how much they liked things like the easy install of binary graphics or WiFi drivers, for example.
- geofft 14y agoReally? I have plenty of hardware that simply will not work at all without the binary blobs -- no graphics, no network connection, etc. I've tried installing Debian on some of my machines, only to find that it doesn't boot and I need to install Ubuntu instead. Ubuntu wouldn't lose on mere "popularity" by being less pragmatic, they'd lose on hardware compatibility. It's pretty easy for a technical user who knows they want Linux to find hardware well-supported on Linux before they buy it, but the average user will come with a computer already purchased, and ask if Ubuntu works on their computer.