And don't let the door hit you on the way out
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jul 4 20:27:58 UTC 2012
On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 15:43 -0400, Robert Myers wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Robert Myers <rbmyersusa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I am anticipating that I will be able to do that in Ubuntu but not in
> >> Fedora, and conversations in Ubuntu forums indicates that my exact hardware
> >> should work just fine.
> >
> > I fail to grasp what would be so fundamentally different between
> > Ubuntu and Fedora with regards to virtualization and flash support.
> >
> There is no fundamental difference that I know of between Ubuntu and
> Fedora with regard to virtualization.
>
> With regard to flash support, Ubuntu supports it more or less
> transparently and, if you want to use it on Fedora, you can spend the
> rest of your life on forums like this one. You don't really want me
> here forever, do you?
>
> The difference between Fedora and Ubuntu that really matters, and if
> you don't want to hear it, just stop reading my posts, is that the
> people who use Ubuntu are generally more like the people who use
> Windows and Canonical knows it and caters to them. Red Hat (along
> with Fedora and its manifestly snotty community) turns up its nose at
> such users. It doesn't want them.
>
> Thus, if I need to find the *exact* Ubuntu driver for the very popular
> webcam I actually use, not only can I find it, but I can also find
> people who use it and talk about how to use it. If there are such
> users in the Fedora community, I have so far not encountered them.
> Red Hat threw its amateur users overboard to maximize shareholder
> value. A few loyal diehards hung on. This loyal diehard can no
> longer afford to.
>
> Robert Myers.
Why do you stick to ridiculous over-generalizations. As people have said
several times if you like Ubuntu so much switch to it and don't post to
the Fedora users list.
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