Thread: Reasons to use Linux

Originally Posted by Ynot

OEM's pay approx. £50 to MS

And who here is an OEM? The fact is, although the price is inflated as a result, you still get a copy of Windows. A downgrade, if an option, usually involves no discount. Unless you are building a PC yourself, you're likely going to get a copy of Windows.

I use a mixxture of Windows and Ubuntu at home. Ubuntu I find I get bored on, because all I do on it it seems is surf the web and struggle with the still patchy flash support (I'm using Adobe's, the default one is terrible (nay, broken)). It's a very nice environment to do it in though, and stable, too (8.4.1 is; I had a terrible time with 8.4 aka segfault central). Plus, there is no media player on par with Foobar2000 in terms of lightweightness, simplicity and ease of use, and Foobar doesn't run on Wine. I'm using a bloated thing called Exaile that is full of annoyances. I've tried others, and they are worse. Tunapie, a Linux only Shoutcast client, kind of makes it up though, but I can never find anything good on.