Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?
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Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?
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Re: Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?
#2Contrary to Betteridge's law of headlines, I would assert yes, and that is also the answer on the article for the TL;DR; folks out there.
Otherwise don't whine when projects die.
Re: Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?
#3Contrary to Betteridge's law of headlines, I would assert yes, and that is also the answer on the article for the TL;DR; folks out there. Otherwise don't whine when projects die.
id pay for rhel
Re: Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?
#4Paying makes sense when you actually need/use those services. Paying "because you can" feels wrong to me. If the goal is to support FOSS, there are many more ways to contribute than subscribing to a service you don't use.
Re: Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?
#5Paying makes sense when you actually need/use those services. Paying "because you can" feels wrong to me. If the goal is to support FOSS, there are many more ways to contribute than subscribing to a service you don't use.
Without commenting on Ubuntu Pro specifically, the whole point of a Linux distribution is that users don't need to know or care what specific services they use. I'd happily pay $50/year to use "Debian" and trust that the Debian Foundation figures out how to feed that money back to the appropriate upstream projects.
Please don't try and make me give $0.05/week to dbus maintainers or whoever.
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#6I would happily pay for Linux if it came pre-installed on a machine it's guaranteed to work with. I mean flawlessly - I really don't want to configure a driver ever again.
Please someone create a linux laptop that:
1. Just works out of the box.
2. Has really good keychain management.
3. Comes with no bundled AI.
4. Good clipboard managment (like Handoff).
5. Excellent graphics APIs and an good UI framework.
Apple and Microsoft have lost the plot and there's a gaping wide space to fill here.
Re: Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?
#7I would happily pay for Linux if it came pre-installed on a machine it's guaranteed to work with. I mean flawlessly - I really don't want to configure a driver ever again. Please someone create a linux laptop that: 1. Just works out of the box. 2. Has really good keychain management. 3. Comes with no bundled AI. 4. Good clipboard managment (like Handoff). 5. Excellent graphics APIs and an good UI framework. Apple and…
Sadly people can't do much with an OS that doesn't run the applications they want. Until that becomes a reality no one is paying for Linux.
Re: Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?
#8I would happily pay for Linux if it came pre-installed on a machine it's guaranteed to work with. I mean flawlessly - I really don't want to configure a driver ever again. Please someone create a linux laptop that: 1. Just works out of the box. 2. Has really good keychain management. 3. Comes with no bundled AI. 4. Good clipboard managment (like Handoff). 5. Excellent graphics APIs and an good UI framework. Apple and…
Great now multiply that bullet point list by 1000, because everyone wants different things and has different hardware, and you'll see that even the current state of Linux is a miracle. We're at the point where 90% of the time you can install a modern Gnome distro on a laptop and it'll work. Completely for free.
Re: Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?
#9I would happily pay for Linux if it came pre-installed on a machine it's guaranteed to work with. I mean flawlessly - I really don't want to configure a driver ever again. Please someone create a linux laptop that: 1. Just works out of the box. 2. Has really good keychain management. 3. Comes with no bundled AI. 4. Good clipboard managment (like Handoff). 5. Excellent graphics APIs and an good UI framework. Apple and…
Sadly people can't do much with an OS that doesn't run the applications they want. Until that becomes a reality no one is paying for Linux.
Gaming works well on Linux, probably because people pay for games.
There's already tons of power software for Linux (e.g. Blender) but it's not always easy to use.
I don't see why the App Store model wouldn't work on Linux too.
Re: Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?
#10I would happily pay for Linux if it came pre-installed on a machine it's guaranteed to work with. I mean flawlessly - I really don't want to configure a driver ever again. Please someone create a linux laptop that: 1. Just works out of the box. 2. Has really good keychain management. 3. Comes with no bundled AI. 4. Good clipboard managment (like Handoff). 5. Excellent graphics APIs and an good UI framework. Apple and…
Great now multiply that bullet point list by 1000, because everyone wants different things and has different hardware, and you'll see that even the current state of Linux is a miracle. We're at the point where 90% of the time you can install a modern Gnome distro on a laptop and it'll work. Completely for free.
> everyone wants different things and has different hardware
Did you read my post?
> Please someone create a linux laptop
That means the hardware is alreaty there. I'm talking about the macOS model for Linux.
What would be top of your 5000 bullet point list?