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Re:Why Ubuntu Linux is now ready for primetime by dorian-graph on Saturday August 27, 2011 @08:53AM (#2931356)
What an awful article. Nothing here was 'new' but rather the same things that have been said in near every other 'Year of desktop Linux!' articles. Replace the post date with any year going back to ~ 2006 and it wouldn't be out of place at all. Also, any writer that is suggesting primetime usage of a Linux distribution and then suggests to use WINE or a VM solution is out of his mind.

It's amusing how the writer referenced Ultimate in order to show the apparent high cost of Windows yet how many people actually need Ultimate? Also, his 'success' story in regards to his wife isn't too realistic or at least common—how many people have a husband who is willing to look for DbxConv (A command app) and do all that work for her.

The site itself looks as if it's stuck a few years back. I'm a little disappointed Windows ME wasn't referenced and no use of 'm$'.

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Re:Why Ubuntu Linux is now ready for primetime by hollerith on Saturday August 27, 2011 @10:36AM (#2931545)
>Replace the post date with any year going back to ~ 2006 and it wouldn't be out of place

There have been breathless articles about this being the year Linux is ready for the desktop ever since the late 1990s.

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Re:Why Ubuntu Linux is now ready for primetime by actf on Sunday August 28, 2011 @12:58AM (#2933334)
He mentions he's fed up with the financial cost and the need to activate Windows, and cites these as reasons to use linux. He then later suggests running Windows in a VM to deal with "dodgy programs". At least I'm not the only one that finds the irony here hilarious.
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Re:Why Ubuntu Linux is now ready for primetime by DanBealeC on Saturday August 27, 2011 @09:16AM (#2931390)
Hey, the mouse "just works!". Out of the box! Linux is ready. It's always disappointing in articles like these not to see 200 corporate workers trying Libre Office (which would be fine for many many people).
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