Thatguy, that is just retarded BS you are saying there. Do you actually realise that a majority of the servers in the world run on Linux? And yes, that is open source software.
Firefox is open source and not a bad program at all.
Rythmbox (not for Windows, sorry) is a very nice OS music player and better IMO than Windpws Media Player.
VLC player let's you play all your vids without having to install a sh*tload of codecs and therefore without risking codec conflicts.
Audacity is an excellent audio editing program that lets you do free what others ask money for.
Clonezilla Is one of the best disk imaging programs available (mainly because of the wide file system support, and because you are free to make as many copies of the bootable cd as you want)
Your statement is making clear that you don't know what you are talking about.
to be honest, its the truth, if you can't bear to hear it, lifes tough. In the ways that open source apps are often low quality
Incomplete features, features are often never implemented or fully finished
Bugs, most open source software is very buggy
Compatability breakage, very common in open source becuase instead of adressing my first 2 points, reinvent the wheel instead becuase they can. Not beucase it is needed.
Server deployment is a so what proposition, server are handing up data most of the time. They aren't being tasked with actually rendering the web page, just dish it up. to be honest MAC OSX andMS have higher quality applications.
Certainly there are exceptions to what I am saying, VLC certainly being one of them. but by far alot of the open source software out there is more of a tech demo then a finished product.
you might not like it, but most of th ebest software for linux is paid for software.
Lets talk about audacity for a moment. compare it to ProTools,Cubase or Presonus studio one.
I have used audacity, flatly, the ui is horrific., the console is poorly laid out and routing is a fustrating distraction most of the time, not to mention the VST hosting bugs.
Windows media players everything under the sun, flawlessly, with minimal exceptions and very very few unsupported codecs.
Well thats great for firefox, its heavily funded, unlike most open source software.
BTW when did audacity go open source exactly ?
but lets talk about a practical problem. I recently got submarined "in fact several times" on linux hardware drivers, not to mention the fact that the drivers were not complete, offered hardly minimal features to the device, generally didn't work or cuased system instability.
Then you have the linux audio system disaster. there was nothing wrong with opensound at all. It worked fine. Nows theres pulse,alsa etc. Why ? becuase most linux developers are tinkerers, not paid professionals. the high quality programmers go on the mission critical paying jobs. they stick the new guys in the linux pool to get there feet wet.
so while it would be nice to sit back and lay acclaim for open source, it just doesn;t have the orginization of discipline to build quality software, for the most part.
Hell just look at all the coding style variations on the linux kernel, its messy.
Not that the tech itself is bad, it comes up short on implemntation.
I'd rather pay for working software, over wasting my time "which is worth $150hrly" dicking around with free software.