Talk:The Perfect Desktop Linux OS

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This is ridiculous. Those other "clickety-clack" distros at least have some respectability. Personally, there are several programs I feel I need to add whenever I get any distro, including Freespire. Who decides what a "perfect" Desktop OS is. Most of these lists, for example, include Frozen Bubble and some sort of composite graphics. As far as I can see, Freespire only stands out in multimedia handling (which by the way is great). Anything else is conceited bitching.--Anschelsc 11:55, 11 November 2006 (PST)

As with any distro -- YMMV :) The fact that "your mileage may vary" doesn't in anyway devalue another persons opinion. I may think that the Oklahoma Panhandle is some of the most beautiful country in the the lower 48 states but simply because some else thinks you gotta have flowing water in those ditches we call rivers, or trees -- for that matter decent shrubbery, or snow capped mountains and crystal clear alpine lakes, or anything less than than the constant 30 mph wind we have here.... Ok, maybe the beauty of the Oklahoma Panhandle is a poor example here :) however, I think you get the point. Besides that, hyperbole is quite common in the business world -- that is especially true in the software and OS world. -- Revhouse1 19:54, 11 November 2006 (CST)

It just strikes me as rather pompous to call yourself "perfect," as if everyone has your opinions. I'm sure the project managers for, say, Knoppix or PCLinuxOS or DSL or Puppy or GoboLinux or ReactOS or even Windows would consider their Desktop OS's perfect. As I said before, multimedia is the only way Freespire stands out from, say, Kubuntu, and multimedia is easy enough to install there with Automatix2. "Perfect" does not mean "as close to Windows XP as is legally possible," which is what Freespire and Linspire clearly think it does. Don't get me wrong, Freespire is nice enough for, say, a suit who just wants to spend as little time as possible on learning (shudder), but that guy might as well stick with Windows, that's what will take the least learning and be the least cutting edge, which seems to be Freespire's concern.--Anschelsc 18:00, 23 November 2006 (PST)