I know that this subject has been hacked up by people all over the internet, but now it’s my turn. I’ve been using Ubuntu on my laptop for a few months now and I think it’s great. The operating system starts up and shuts down quickly. It hasn’t crashed or suffered any periods of slowness and I love the idea of being able to search for software and install it AND have the operating system maintain it. After my Ubuntu experience, I had to ask myself, “What’s holding desktop Linux back?”.
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16 years 7 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago
Fault of proprietor
A computer program is a set of instructions designed to make your computer do something useful. A computer program should be modified if it fails to meet the requirements of the user.
The user is subject to a software proprietor's whims when they choose to accept proprietary software. In this case, by choosing to accept commercial proprietary software, the user is subject to the proprietor's decision to not support your requirement of running on a GNU/Linux system.
Thus it is the proprietor's fault for not supporting the user and the user's fault for choosing to be subject to the proprietor. Subjugation does not happen when you choose commercial free software.