PullusPardus said:
im guessing you don't know ubuntu. why is it good? because its fully costumizable. everything is free and there is everything. |
I don't give extra points for it being free. As in free as beer. Of course it is a good thing if you can customize/modify your OS if needed. The funny thing is that I don't need to customize my Windows 7. There is everything? No, that is not true. You can get pretty good FOSS counterparts but they still lack a lot of features which are included in commercial windows applications.
Gimp is good and all, but still it is not photoshop. You can try to install CS3 with wine. You might get it running after a lot of fruitless fiddling and be happy about it but when you notice that all the tools aren't working properly you will cry. Same goes for a lot of software.
How about games? Windows 7 runs all of them! Does ubuntu do that? No. But hey, at least it runs a big percentage of them through wine. Too bad that even if the games run, they suffer from bad framerates and weird glitches. But don't mind that, some games actually run properly on wine!
How about x64 drivers and some basic software? Yeah, you can get them to work. It is very simple! Here is one example how simple it can be using Ubuntu:
sudo killall -9 firefox
sudo wget http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb
sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper
sudo getlibs -p libcurl3
sudo getlibs -p libnss3-1d
sudo getlibs -p libnspr4-0d
sudo wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
tar zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm -rf ~/install_flash_player_10_linux/
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
Oh crap, ubuntu is so awesome!
Note:
That is what I really had to do to get flash working on ubuntu, a copy&paste from some old text file. I did not mind that back then but now? No thanks, windows 7 is much better.
