And don't let the door hit you on the way out

[David]

On 7/4/2012 3:43 PM, 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.


So you're leaving Fedora for Ubuntu? Well then. What's keeping from
leaving? Not finished trolling yet?

Plonk.

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  David