when I used Ubuntu in my toshiba, was the time when I was the happiest and relaxed. Now I use an Asus with Win 7, but I really miss it. but it doesn't star any more jaja. But now, is my mom who uses Linux and... she really likes it.
@petryna96 So, you can remove all the shitty graphical features, edit the kernel's source to fix it, Delete useless Microsoft garbage, etc. using Windows? I don't think so. With windows, you get 1 thing of several different tastes, and if you're not happy with that, F**k you. I'm not happy with Windows, because it's bloated, buggy, shitty, expensive, and there is just no way i can fix it to meet my needs. I use Arch Linux because it gives me what i ask for. Nothing more, nothing less.
@petryna96 You said "You can be free using what do you want and how do you want.", well Windows doesn't give me enough freedom, i just pointed that out.
@ScienceAperture What is "usefull apps"? MS WORD? Solitaire? Reversi? Minesweaper? People still use that shit (and if i wanted, i could get them, all i need is to install Wine)? In the Unix world, we use different apps. While you have Explorer, we have Nautilus, or Thunar, or Konqueror. While you have IE, we have Firefox. While you have MS WORD, we have OpenOffice. While you have MS GAMES, we have "The ace of Penguins". While you have COD, we have Minecraft, Etc.
@DudeOfX yeah, and unfortunately much of that aspect of the gpl is there to protect owners from greedy companies, especially with the orphan works act, or is that exclusively art? either way, I know it's wishful thinking but maybe someday we can have true freedom, without fear of politics and monopolies :)
@Imprezaman555 Once a piece of information is within my reach I should be free to use it to enrich my life and the life of others as I see appropriately fit. That leaves anarchist, hackers and pirates to be my friends when it comes to intellectual property.
Ok, so as a Mac user, you know that if you want to buy a no apple brand, you have to do some research to find out if it compatible. Same thing with Linux.
Linux is great but I still Have to use Widows because my Kodak E.S.P 3 Printer only works with Windows O.K is there any Linux users who can Help me in to getting my Kodak E.S.P 3 Printer to Work with Linux mint 8 Helena.
That's true, but revenue can be obtained from advertising partnerships (like Google). Or a bounty model can be implemented in which users that want certain features implemented have to pay for them. Also, I think an open-source operating system that benefits everyone should definitely be tax-payer funded.
I agree on the first part, disagree on the second, in principle. We shouldn't have to pander to the lowest common denominator, or to a single country. Linux is a worldwide project.
It is what Linux is about. Freedom is choice. When you use the majority of "alternatives" you have no choice. You are locked into proprietary protocols, proprietary formats, etc. Everything is governed by one body typical itself governed by one person. Linux allows you to go where you want. Granted it may take skills beyond your current set but you have CHOICE. Without choice you have nothing. Free Information, Free directions. YOU chose or let others chose for you without your input.
As much as I love and enjoy working with Linux on a daily basis, I do not think that this video captures the benefits of Linux for a person that might see it offered in a store next to a Windows box.
For me, it comes off as too 'artsy' to be actually meaningful. If I was a consumer and saw this, it would simply not show me how Linux is relevant to my life and my workflow, nor did it evoke any emotion, which I believe is crucial for an ad campaign to be successful.
I feel the same, I'm also tired of trying to find Vista drivers. Now i have started with Ubuntu Linux and its so simple just plug in the printer and print. Al drivers is automatically installed. In just 30 minuets i convented my dysfunctional vista machine to a wonderful computer. Fast and almost no risk for virus. Office and paint programs was included! Power to the people
Free means I can do what I want. Free means i don't have to make some fat cat even fatter. Free doesn't mean someone is going to hold my hand, but guess what? All the help you need to do it yourself is free!
Meh, if I didn't know what Linux was I wouldn't understand this ad at all. Just tell folks Linux isn't as hard to use as they might think and that some variants are free.
Linux and the Linux community is so free that if you don't have anything to say but extreme praise for this video or Linux you get blindly downvoted or called an M$ shill. It doesn't matter if you were actually trying to be helpful. Linux is life-changing and the one true way which, through a variety of distros, is also all powerful and anything not OSS is evil and leading you astray.
I've used Ubuntu and some OSS but I'm not read to join the "Church of latter day Open Source"
I grew up with Apple Macintosh and loved it, but it was too expensive when I wanted to build my own computer. Windows is cheap and a large variety of software... but most it junk, not to mention bugs and crashes, useless error messages. Windows maintainence feels a lot like changing out the drip bucket to maintain your roof. Linux is easy to use, and maintain. You break something you just fix it, not spend a weekend reinstalling. But you must be willing to read and learn, like any quality tool.
I don't think this should have won. I liked other video's better, like the Linux Pub. And it seems people agree with me, since this video has only 3 stars. It's just really sad that this has to be the 'best' thing we can come up with. :(
Neat video. But, please, don't play with subtitles, they aren't there just to look nice, they are useful if they can clearly be read by people with visual impairment and foreigners understanding written english well but can't always understand everyone's accent.
I didn't have much trouble to understand the ad but I wanted to look at the subs to see if I heard a word (option, space to be in, surroundings) correctly and I noticed that I couldn't read as fast as with a classic and sans serif font.
This sounds like garbage, is pretty much meaningless, and completely fails to mention computers or operating systems. "Did you know you have a different option?" An option of WHAT? Linux might as well be the name of an investment bank. Come to think of it I could say the same for the whole ad. It could be an ad for a new line of cars, a pharmaceutical, pretty much anything that wants to use this vague, feel-good nonsense. Celexa! Get your freedom!
You make up a valid argument... but an incorrect one. Advertising is about name recognition. Anything to get the name stuck in your head so that when you see the name again, you will pay attention, even if unintentionally. That's it! A possible step up is that people will be interested and investigate what it means, but that comes later. The fancy word for it is NLP. Since when has a commercial come on and thought you thought to yourself "yay, information time". After that, its cute.
I suppose... if there are going to be any more ads which actually tell you anything at all.
Plenty of ads inform. Even the most gimmicky explicitly state, at some point, what the product actually is unless it's a teaser campaign with a follow up.
I think this fails seriously at making anyone deciding to google "linux" if they don't already know what it is. If this was just for NLP it's also bad since the name appears once, small, and not for very long. It's also just damn cheesy.
Freedom is the ability to run commercial software as well as open source software on your OS, instead of living in a walled off garden of free software, like you do with Linux.
Completely false statement. You definitely have the freedom to run commercial software on Linux. Hell, I run Windows XP inside of VirtualBox on Linux which runs InDesign and Illustrator. Not to mention the Nvidia drivers, acrobat, and the flash runtime... etc. etc. etc. Do I really need to go on?
Wow that's great, you have to use a Virtual Machine to run your favorite/work apps.
Linux just sucks for home users which do not work at computer-stuff or something like that. I used Linux for about 3 months at my home computer just to try, it sucks, even that I and my partners consider myself as an advanced computer user. I even patched WINE for playing a game, but it still sucked.
I, too, was a Linux fanboy.
IMHO Linux sucks for home servers, so Linux -> Servers
Hilarious! You're saying you can run all of those apps "on Linux", because you're running them inside of Win XP in a virtual box?? By that logic, Windows is open source because I run linux in a virtual box on it.
Well there's also Wine. But the virtual box thing isn't so far fetched. If there could be more integration in the host OS it would be fine. With CPU/RAM/HDD being readily available it really is a good solution.
But it's still, funamentall, philosophically, a hack. It's not linux software. It's windows software. If, for example, your job depends on you using a certain windows application, should you run linux and hack it into working?
in b4 "well it works for *me* so, *I* could do it"... Which is the attitude that's made linux fail.
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it also means completely non-standard formats for documents. and geeks trying to show off their programming anti-patterns over real productive software.
i use linux. but i'll be the first to admit it is for wankers.
I would think so as well... but when you look back at these last two decades and notice all the business centric tv ads that consisted of nothing more than flashy and sharp looking images followed by a small mention or short display of a company logo with no explanation... well,. this could be considered a huge improvement over that.
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I have freedom using Microsoft Windows. I am free to purchase and use commercial software. I am free to download and use free software. I am free to create and use my own software, then decide if I want others to use it too. I am free to purchase and use DRM protected media, or I can choose to purchase only open formats.
When you let the Linux Zealots define what freedom is, then you've already lost it.
but even that is still a worthy cause. the more people that use linux, the more potential developers there are. and the more potential developers there are, the better linux gets.
how comes that after all these years most people still prefer to use windows over linux.dont you think money is a more effective incentive to make software than whatever is driving linux developers to improve their os.
dont you think that the benefit that money grants by giving an incentive to create is more valuable than the negative aspect of capitalism you are obviously referring to?
> dont you think that the benefit that money grants by giving an
> incentive to create is more valuable than the negative aspect
> of capitalism you are obviously referring to?
I said money *is* an incentive. there are other incentives, people like to create and participate. Even for my paid job, I get more done on tasks that interest me. And, I have been paid to write open source, as are many others (inluding Linus) ... so there can be equal benefits there.
I am sure software companies look out for our best interest the more money they receive just like politicians. 'prefer' is a stretch. 'Most' Windows users don't even know what an operating system is, let alone which one they use. 'most' think they have a Dell. The Internet runs on Linux, and that is what people 'mostly' use. IT IS A DIGITAL WORLD, and computing is the new literacy. You tell me why it is important to know how to read, and I will tell you why it is important to learn Linux.
no, I don't think that. I think that people who are passionate about what they create will consistently make better software than those who are just doing a job.
consider the gnome desktop environment, which is very well funded by third parties, in comparison to KDE, which receives very little funding. and yet, KDE is much better.
I like the idea that numerous environments are available. I have choice. Odd though that once upon a time Gnome was purely unfunded and KDE was the product of a commercially licensed product (funded?). I personally like Gnome but then isn't that what is great about it all? I have a choice.
I may recall how many people on youtube or elsewhere being insulted for using Win/Mac by those Linux fans, which is just contradict the idea of freedom, the freedom that people can choose what they want to use, needless to say, to choose whether to share their technologies (example: I have no idea why open source circle critisised microsoft not to allow other office application to support their OWN file standard? )
First of all, freedom of choice does not take away others' freedom to criticize your choice.
Second of all, I think you're confused about what happened with Microsoft Office. What happened was that Microsoft *did not* support the open standard and instead created its own. The reason for the concern is that it is believed that Microsoft would deviate from its own standard to create documents which are not compatible with other office suites that actually do conform to the published standard.
Its not people dont want frredom, but the truth is that others just offer a better services and products. I want computer/operating system that work without knowing the underlying mechanism. It's impossible to use Linux without typing command even just to install a software (You' wont find unpopular software in software manger). It doesnt even play mp3 out of the box, how amusing?
Also, you don't have to use commands or understand how the system works if you don't want. It's just that the seasoned Linux users know their way around the command line, and find it quicker to explain than a series of "point-and-click" steps.
So I recomend you Ubuntu. It is easier version of Linux, for beginers. After instalation you have got all needed programs to for example play mp3 or xvid. Try it.
ubuntu is only easy when it works correctly. in trying to make things simple, it complicates things to the extreme when a certain pre-configured script doesn't work as intended.
don't be lazy. if you need help with something, ask in the appropriate distro's irc channel
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this video illustrates the biggest problem with Linux... its got too many settings and options.. initially you sit HOURS configuring the machine.. after which you are constantly aware of the fact that you have an operating system... I'm not crazy about Windows either.. but if I have to choose I go to the one I can forget about while I'm working, which is Windows...
Damn, you must have a panic attack going to a large supermarket, all those options for nourishment...
Ubuntu and it's diriviatives are great out of the box and you need not tinker with the options should you not _want_. Your point is nonsensical, but hey i dual boot, they both have their ups and downs.
I long for the day when linux is to windows what firefox is to IE. Communities can develop some very impressive things.
@bobbyturnip what you say might be true for distros like gentoo or arch linux, but distros like ubuntu have pretty much worked right out of the box for me on any machine I have installed it on,
and @skenliv KDE 4.2 is not an OS, its a Desktop environment
Not true anymore. In fact, just the opposite. After a fresh install, Linux has way more tools installed so you can just start working than windows does out of the box. You should install both and try it for yourself. Once you install windows, don't you also need to install office just to get email, then if you're a programmer, you need to install Studio. Linux comes with all of this stuff out of the box. Don't even get me started on Windows drivers for your hardware.
Only on some of the versions, usually the older ones. That's why I didn't use it for a long time too, I couldn't be bothered with all the faffing about with settings.
Ubuntu at least isn't like this though. I tried that, it had most of the software installed and has stuff installed now to automate almost all the things that used to be such a PITA, with the exceptions being things the average user won't use.
You can run the OS off a CD without installing, why not give it a try
I'd like to support this video, because I like the idea of linux a lot. However, it makes a really bad argument. Linux means you have a choice and that you are free to choose? What?
You have made it blatantly obvious you know nothing about linux.
There are several enterprise versions of linux that have exceptional support. Also, there are several programs such as vmware server and wine that are bringing the platforms closer together. Practically the only reason to run windows now is for gaming. Well, enjoy your slow, bloated, expensive, uncustomizable and unsecure operating system.
when I used Ubuntu in my toshiba, was the time when I was the happiest and relaxed. Now I use an Asus with Win 7, but I really miss it. but it doesn't star any more jaja. But now, is my mom who uses Linux and... she really likes it.
laratamantis 1 month ago
Why are there so many dislikes? This really does explain Linux.
shawngreene1 1 month ago
It was so in Ubuntu until Unity...
telcontar3 4 months ago
What is that accent?
petryna96 6 months ago
Welcome to the -Grid- Windows virgins :)
LitongX1 9 months ago
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13orweb 10 months ago
love opensource.., love linux.., thanks linux
ucupersdotcom 1 year ago
I love Linux.
ProManUnitedFan 1 year ago
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Being "free" means your hardware won't work and you won't have any useful apps available.
ScienceAperture 1 year ago
@ScienceAperture I have a P4 computer with Linux and everything works!
irulethe70s 1 year ago 2
@ScienceAperture no that would be a "noob" sir
harpershmarper 11 months ago
@ScienceAperture You don't need to use Linux to be free. You can be free using what do you want and how do you want.
petryna96 6 months ago
@petryna96 So, you can remove all the shitty graphical features, edit the kernel's source to fix it, Delete useless Microsoft garbage, etc. using Windows? I don't think so. With windows, you get 1 thing of several different tastes, and if you're not happy with that, F**k you. I'm not happy with Windows, because it's bloated, buggy, shitty, expensive, and there is just no way i can fix it to meet my needs. I use Arch Linux because it gives me what i ask for. Nothing more, nothing less.
merkur32123 3 weeks ago
@merkur32123 WTF?!
petryna96 2 weeks ago
@petryna96 You said "You can be free using what do you want and how do you want.", well Windows doesn't give me enough freedom, i just pointed that out.
merkur32123 2 weeks ago
@merkur32123 And you are free cause you can use Linux. That is what I was trying to say.
petryna96 2 weeks ago
@ScienceAperture What is "usefull apps"? MS WORD? Solitaire? Reversi? Minesweaper? People still use that shit (and if i wanted, i could get them, all i need is to install Wine)? In the Unix world, we use different apps. While you have Explorer, we have Nautilus, or Thunar, or Konqueror. While you have IE, we have Firefox. While you have MS WORD, we have OpenOffice. While you have MS GAMES, we have "The ace of Penguins". While you have COD, we have Minecraft, Etc.
merkur32123 3 weeks ago
The GPL which is what much of linux is based on has its antifreedoms... but still is a nice alternative to windows or mac...
DudeOfX 2 years ago
@DudeOfX yeah, and unfortunately much of that aspect of the gpl is there to protect owners from greedy companies, especially with the orphan works act, or is that exclusively art? either way, I know it's wishful thinking but maybe someday we can have true freedom, without fear of politics and monopolies :)
Imprezaman555 1 year ago
@Imprezaman555 Once a piece of information is within my reach I should be free to use it to enrich my life and the life of others as I see appropriately fit. That leaves anarchist, hackers and pirates to be my friends when it comes to intellectual property.
DudeOfX 1 year ago
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free to lose endless time and trying to install the wifi driver
daxx2k 2 years ago
@daxx2k
Free to lose half day to find a crack for your favourite windows applications.
By the way, do you have a regular windows licence or even that one is pirated?
zergbrim 2 years ago
what? windows? I'm a proud Mac User with a glorius Snow Leopard legal version
daxx2k 2 years ago
@daxx2k
Ok, so as a Mac user, you know that if you want to buy a no apple brand, you have to do some research to find out if it compatible. Same thing with Linux.
zergbrim 2 years ago
only $25 dollar for a snowleopard license instead of $200 for a windows7 license, even easier than download an illegal copy, find the crack etc.....
daxx2k 2 years ago
@daxx2k
Yes many times is faster to buy a regular licence :)
I agree with that! By this is not my case because I have been Windows free since 2008 ^_^
zergbrim 2 years ago
@zergbrim
*But not By
zergbrim 2 years ago
@daxx2k
Sorry daxx2k if I take for granted that you were a Windows users.
zergbrim 2 years ago
yeah but only 400$ for a pc vs the 1200$ for a mac. why do you think they sell their OS so cheap? because you have to own a mac to use them!
cyberlord64 2 years ago
Linux is great but I still Have to use Widows because my Kodak E.S.P 3 Printer only works with Windows O.K is there any Linux users who can Help me in to getting my Kodak E.S.P 3 Printer to Work with Linux mint 8 Helena.
Freespire44 2 years ago
free, means that the developers usually do not get paid for developing the product and results are matching :D
Miki800 2 years ago
I don't believe open source is for everyone. No one is making those developers make free software, they are FREE to make that choice :P
Most of the big open source distributors are usually supported by companies like Google and IMB.
I believe Linux is supported by IBM and Firefox is supported by Google. :)
GroogFish 2 years ago
Oh, come on, do you know how does open-source business model work?
GarryRat 2 years ago
That's true, but revenue can be obtained from advertising partnerships (like Google). Or a bounty model can be implemented in which users that want certain features implemented have to pay for them. Also, I think an open-source operating system that benefits everyone should definitely be tax-payer funded.
FranciscoPadilla 2 years ago
The future is open !
jeroeniskoning 2 years ago 4
why is this video so poorly rated? i didn't think it was that bad, good animations and it stated linux's philosophy pretty clearly
schmidtbag 2 years ago 4
microsoft fanboys - that's why
haha169 2 years ago 3
thats what i was wandering right now!
5 stars!
cyberlord64 2 years ago
respect
alexandrosgrr 2 years ago 2
Awesome.
Simulationcity 2 years ago 3
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terrible accent and tone of voice
rvcasa 2 years ago
Good ad. Added to my favourites. =)
ABCruz2310 2 years ago 3
If this guy's background voice would be changed accent less women voice it would be supreme ad. still it is nice :)
entd1 2 years ago
Go go go go Linux!
rzvend 2 years ago
XD its israeli ad
davver12 2 years ago
The message is clear. i like it alot.
5 star
teatreeandmint 2 years ago 2
the creator is a Israeli
Overage2000 2 years ago
ans what is that bad?
synechris 2 years ago
no just for your inforation
Overage2000 2 years ago
aha nice ;)
synechris 2 years ago 2
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and the Israeli creator didn't use linux to create the video (lol) he used windows
Overage2000 2 years ago
are u serious? o0
synechris 2 years ago
yeah i read it in an Israeli news site
Overage2000 2 years ago
overage2000 how would u possibly know this??
jforce93 2 years ago
I can read the website
Overage2000 2 years ago
no it's Russian.
the original video narration is in Russian
cyberlord64 2 years ago
It's not Russian :)
amitait 1 year ago
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LiquidMetalBand 2 years ago
I agree on the first part, disagree on the second, in principle. We shouldn't have to pander to the lowest common denominator, or to a single country. Linux is a worldwide project.
martini1179 2 years ago
It is what Linux is about. Freedom is choice. When you use the majority of "alternatives" you have no choice. You are locked into proprietary protocols, proprietary formats, etc. Everything is governed by one body typical itself governed by one person. Linux allows you to go where you want. Granted it may take skills beyond your current set but you have CHOICE. Without choice you have nothing. Free Information, Free directions. YOU chose or let others chose for you without your input.
daeamarth 2 years ago
As much as I love and enjoy working with Linux on a daily basis, I do not think that this video captures the benefits of Linux for a person that might see it offered in a store next to a Windows box.
For me, it comes off as too 'artsy' to be actually meaningful. If I was a consumer and saw this, it would simply not show me how Linux is relevant to my life and my workflow, nor did it evoke any emotion, which I believe is crucial for an ad campaign to be successful.
Tarnavski 2 years ago
the music seems taken from the Dharma project but it's really good :)
powercioccio 2 years ago
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The freedom to spend hours reading help forums trying to install any normal device or change a simple display setting. I don't have that freedom.
DryBaboon 2 years ago
I feel the same, I'm also tired of trying to find Vista drivers. Now i have started with Ubuntu Linux and its so simple just plug in the printer and print. Al drivers is automatically installed. In just 30 minuets i convented my dysfunctional vista machine to a wonderful computer. Fast and almost no risk for virus. Office and paint programs was included! Power to the people
johan1964se 2 years ago 4
and then other people aren't retarded.
lifearesoccer 2 years ago
This video should be used to for anti-government videos.
TeensAreNotChildren 2 years ago
Excellent video, a well-deserved winner!
tommedcouk 2 years ago 21
This was made with open source?
Does anyone know what was used to produce this video?
anonymous345 2 years ago 6
I think that was a requirement.
Keruaran 2 years ago
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Reminds me of old windows ads.
Royantk 2 years ago
Free means I can do what I want. Free means i don't have to make some fat cat even fatter. Free doesn't mean someone is going to hold my hand, but guess what? All the help you need to do it yourself is free!
xjlmt 2 years ago 4
Meh, if I didn't know what Linux was I wouldn't understand this ad at all. Just tell folks Linux isn't as hard to use as they might think and that some variants are free.
TheMuon 2 years ago
Try "most variants"
animalcrosser5 2 years ago
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That's all i got...
gopher2100 2 years ago
Linux and the Linux community is so free that if you don't have anything to say but extreme praise for this video or Linux you get blindly downvoted or called an M$ shill. It doesn't matter if you were actually trying to be helpful. Linux is life-changing and the one true way which, through a variety of distros, is also all powerful and anything not OSS is evil and leading you astray.
I've used Ubuntu and some OSS but I'm not read to join the "Church of latter day Open Source"
digitaldragon5179 2 years ago
Eh, its not a religion. Its software.
aussiebear22 2 years ago 8
Free. Its liberty. Its price. Its also responsibility for my own systems...Its why I use Linux.
aussiebear22 2 years ago 9
Wow, I love it! The accent doesn't bother me.
gnulinuxman 2 years ago 9
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Linux is great! Open source is great! This video is very cool! Thanks!
RomaVorushin 2 years ago
Linux is great! Open source is great! This video is very cool! Thanks!
RomaVorushin 2 years ago 2
very good!! amazing. I love it.
anibalojeda 2 years ago 2
can i has an optchon?
clapthehammers 2 years ago
Haha, yeah, his accent is pretty bad.
Znupi18 2 years ago
I grew up with Apple Macintosh and loved it, but it was too expensive when I wanted to build my own computer. Windows is cheap and a large variety of software... but most it junk, not to mention bugs and crashes, useless error messages. Windows maintainence feels a lot like changing out the drip bucket to maintain your roof. Linux is easy to use, and maintain. You break something you just fix it, not spend a weekend reinstalling. But you must be willing to read and learn, like any quality tool.
thtrgremlin 2 years ago
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I don't understand Arabic.
b0rk3d 2 years ago
I don't think this should have won. I liked other video's better, like the Linux Pub. And it seems people agree with me, since this video has only 3 stars. It's just really sad that this has to be the 'best' thing we can come up with. :(
Norbert2 2 years ago
I got chills watching this video.. good job!
statikkling 2 years ago 2
Neat video. But, please, don't play with subtitles, they aren't there just to look nice, they are useful if they can clearly be read by people with visual impairment and foreigners understanding written english well but can't always understand everyone's accent.
I didn't have much trouble to understand the ad but I wanted to look at the subs to see if I heard a word (option, space to be in, surroundings) correctly and I noticed that I couldn't read as fast as with a classic and sans serif font.
AtkDcyStnRls 2 years ago
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This sounds like garbage, is pretty much meaningless, and completely fails to mention computers or operating systems. "Did you know you have a different option?" An option of WHAT? Linux might as well be the name of an investment bank. Come to think of it I could say the same for the whole ad. It could be an ad for a new line of cars, a pharmaceutical, pretty much anything that wants to use this vague, feel-good nonsense. Celexa! Get your freedom!
xupakrimmins 2 years ago 3
You make up a valid argument... but an incorrect one. Advertising is about name recognition. Anything to get the name stuck in your head so that when you see the name again, you will pay attention, even if unintentionally. That's it! A possible step up is that people will be interested and investigate what it means, but that comes later. The fancy word for it is NLP. Since when has a commercial come on and thought you thought to yourself "yay, information time". After that, its cute.
thtrgremlin 2 years ago
I suppose... if there are going to be any more ads which actually tell you anything at all.
Plenty of ads inform. Even the most gimmicky explicitly state, at some point, what the product actually is unless it's a teaser campaign with a follow up.
I think this fails seriously at making anyone deciding to google "linux" if they don't already know what it is. If this was just for NLP it's also bad since the name appears once, small, and not for very long. It's also just damn cheesy.
xupakrimmins 2 years ago 5
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if you havent heard of linux by now, its just not gonna work out.
lifearesoccer 2 years ago
this is pretty spot on
indietrash 2 years ago
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хуита
toshirskij 2 years ago
Great video congrats for winning the first place!
misolico 2 years ago 3
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first : the voice is not clear !!!!!
second : the maker of this video gave a shit about how "hello" in arabic should be written !!!!! it should be like this " مرحبا " !!!!!!
it's a shame that an israeli can't write arabic while europeans and every where else do no mistakes with arabic !!!
linux - fix it .
yamen1408 2 years ago
who cares?
nice video.
dzhibrish 2 years ago
it should end with William Wallace yelling 'FREEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!
lifearesoccer 2 years ago
we're free
r3ym1st3rio 2 years ago
Linux is what you make of it.
:-)
wether that be good, or bad.
ifallenv6 2 years ago
not so big on linux, love the freedom theme though :D
scoobyDx 2 years ago
They gotta mention that it's an operating system. Not many people know what it is.
mohimohi1983 2 years ago
I hate adds like this!
lightworker4 2 years ago
Nice... ;)
Neohacker93 2 years ago 2
honestly i didnt like this much in the first place, but it grew on me, im glad it won
bufsabre666 2 years ago 3
Freedom is the ability to run commercial software as well as open source software on your OS, instead of living in a walled off garden of free software, like you do with Linux.
krinkletube 2 years ago
Completely false statement. You definitely have the freedom to run commercial software on Linux. Hell, I run Windows XP inside of VirtualBox on Linux which runs InDesign and Illustrator. Not to mention the Nvidia drivers, acrobat, and the flash runtime... etc. etc. etc. Do I really need to go on?
gandhii 2 years ago 3
Wow that's great, you have to use a Virtual Machine to run your favorite/work apps.
Linux just sucks for home users which do not work at computer-stuff or something like that. I used Linux for about 3 months at my home computer just to try, it sucks, even that I and my partners consider myself as an advanced computer user. I even patched WINE for playing a game, but it still sucked.
I, too, was a Linux fanboy.
IMHO Linux sucks for home servers, so Linux -> Servers
iankatz81 2 years ago
*IMHO Linux sucks for home users, so Linux -> Servers
Sorry, it's 6:49am here so I missed haha.
iankatz81 2 years ago
Hilarious! You're saying you can run all of those apps "on Linux", because you're running them inside of Win XP in a virtual box?? By that logic, Windows is open source because I run linux in a virtual box on it.
krinkletube 2 years ago
Well there's also Wine. But the virtual box thing isn't so far fetched. If there could be more integration in the host OS it would be fine. With CPU/RAM/HDD being readily available it really is a good solution.
lojikop 2 years ago
But it's still, funamentall, philosophically, a hack. It's not linux software. It's windows software. If, for example, your job depends on you using a certain windows application, should you run linux and hack it into working?
in b4 "well it works for *me* so, *I* could do it"... Which is the attitude that's made linux fail.
krinkletube 2 years ago
s/funamentall/fundamentally
krinkletube 2 years ago
s/fundamentall/fundamentally/gc
( vim syntax =D )
nassto 2 years ago
Linux is cool, even if you don't use it all the time it is nice just to try it out to see what it does.
Headcrabb 2 years ago 3
Wow. I use Linux and love it. Linux is great. But these so called 'ads' are giving it the wrong name and image.
MicShadows1 2 years ago
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it also means completely non-standard formats for documents. and geeks trying to show off their programming anti-patterns over real productive software.
i use linux. but i'll be the first to admit it is for wankers.
geodesicks 2 years ago
Because ODT, TEX, and TXT aren't standard? What the fuck are you talking about?
ouiser5000 2 years ago 3
You cant sell Linux to business and enterprise by talking about freedom.
You must talk about cost benefits, turn-key solution and enterprise synergy. :D
And consolidating the data center through visualization and zero downtime.
Frap357 2 years ago
But you can sell it to people.
chris5pens 2 years ago 6
I would think so as well... but when you look back at these last two decades and notice all the business centric tv ads that consisted of nothing more than flashy and sharp looking images followed by a small mention or short display of a company logo with no explanation... well,. this could be considered a huge improvement over that.
gandhii 2 years ago 3
brilliant
amitmit 2 years ago 3
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I have freedom using Microsoft Windows. I am free to purchase and use commercial software. I am free to download and use free software. I am free to create and use my own software, then decide if I want others to use it too. I am free to purchase and use DRM protected media, or I can choose to purchase only open formats.
When you let the Linux Zealots define what freedom is, then you've already lost it.
jonah1976 2 years ago
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it seems that many people who want linux installed do it only to support the idea of freedom and the movement against commercial software
djkenshiroofficial 2 years ago
untrue.
but even that is still a worthy cause. the more people that use linux, the more potential developers there are. and the more potential developers there are, the better linux gets.
rufsketch1 2 years ago 3
how comes that after all these years most people still prefer to use windows over linux.dont you think money is a more effective incentive to make software than whatever is driving linux developers to improve their os.
djkenshiroofficial 2 years ago
Money not only give an incentive to create, it also is an incentive to SELL!
And many use windows because they are not given a choice.
patmansf 2 years ago
dont you think that the benefit that money grants by giving an incentive to create is more valuable than the negative aspect of capitalism you are obviously referring to?
djkenshiroofficial 2 years ago
> dont you think that the benefit that money grants by giving an
> incentive to create is more valuable than the negative aspect
> of capitalism you are obviously referring to?
I said money *is* an incentive. there are other incentives, people like to create and participate. Even for my paid job, I get more done on tasks that interest me. And, I have been paid to write open source, as are many others (inluding Linus) ... so there can be equal benefits there.
patmansf 2 years ago 2
I am sure software companies look out for our best interest the more money they receive just like politicians. 'prefer' is a stretch. 'Most' Windows users don't even know what an operating system is, let alone which one they use. 'most' think they have a Dell. The Internet runs on Linux, and that is what people 'mostly' use. IT IS A DIGITAL WORLD, and computing is the new literacy. You tell me why it is important to know how to read, and I will tell you why it is important to learn Linux.
thtrgremlin 2 years ago 2
Most people don't use quotes for emphasis.
smackwell 2 years ago
I don't see anyone useing quotes for emphasis.
branboom 2 years ago
Comment below mine, "thtrgremlin," using single quotes for emphasis.
smackwell 2 years ago
ppl use windows because they are an evil company that dominates the market. i use windowsxp and i hate it but i love my games.
jaack456 2 years ago
no, I don't think that. I think that people who are passionate about what they create will consistently make better software than those who are just doing a job.
consider the gnome desktop environment, which is very well funded by third parties, in comparison to KDE, which receives very little funding. and yet, KDE is much better.
rufsketch1 2 years ago 4
I like the idea that numerous environments are available. I have choice. Odd though that once upon a time Gnome was purely unfunded and KDE was the product of a commercially licensed product (funded?). I personally like Gnome but then isn't that what is great about it all? I have a choice.
daeamarth 2 years ago 3
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this is a joke right?
tuxsbro 2 years ago
I may recall how many people on youtube or elsewhere being insulted for using Win/Mac by those Linux fans, which is just contradict the idea of freedom, the freedom that people can choose what they want to use, needless to say, to choose whether to share their technologies (example: I have no idea why open source circle critisised microsoft not to allow other office application to support their OWN file standard? )
boneshk 2 years ago
First of all, freedom of choice does not take away others' freedom to criticize your choice.
Second of all, I think you're confused about what happened with Microsoft Office. What happened was that Microsoft *did not* support the open standard and instead created its own. The reason for the concern is that it is believed that Microsoft would deviate from its own standard to create documents which are not compatible with other office suites that actually do conform to the published standard.
netraven5000 2 years ago 3
So essentially you are arguing that freedom of speech is contradicting the idea of freedom. Funny.
kitsunde 2 years ago
Its not people dont want frredom, but the truth is that others just offer a better services and products. I want computer/operating system that work without knowing the underlying mechanism. It's impossible to use Linux without typing command even just to install a software (You' wont find unpopular software in software manger). It doesnt even play mp3 out of the box, how amusing?
boneshk 2 years ago
It does play MP3s out of the box.
Also, you don't have to use commands or understand how the system works if you don't want. It's just that the seasoned Linux users know their way around the command line, and find it quicker to explain than a series of "point-and-click" steps.
netraven5000 2 years ago
it seems the last time you knew anything about linux was....15 years ago? is that accurate?
lifearesoccer 2 years ago
So I recomend you Ubuntu. It is easier version of Linux, for beginers. After instalation you have got all needed programs to for example play mp3 or xvid. Try it.
wojtek0490 2 years ago 3
ubuntu is only easy when it works correctly. in trying to make things simple, it complicates things to the extreme when a certain pre-configured script doesn't work as intended.
don't be lazy. if you need help with something, ask in the appropriate distro's irc channel
rufsketch1 2 years ago 3
they should be making ads about freenode! :- )
Headcrabb 2 years ago 2
bravo
tvardovsky 2 years ago
I can't help but say that I'm mildly disappointed. It's a nice video with a good message, but this is it?
Now I wish I would've submitted an entry.
seantilley 2 years ago
Linux =/= Windows
Linux is great for people who like to make stuff
Windows is good for an average user
and also, sure i would like all my application on my box right away. but thats what my usb flash drive is for
Daru010 2 years ago
I make a lot of stuff (music, image editing, programming) and am totally satisfied with using windows.
But I've got to admit that there's very good freeware for Linux but most of these programs are also ported to windows systems.
veloxkrns 2 years ago
I'm sorry veloxkrns, could you please reboot your comment? it system 32'd on me,
Thanks that's be much appreciated.
(mac/linux user)
pimpdaddypiggy 2 years ago 2
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this video illustrates the biggest problem with Linux... its got too many settings and options.. initially you sit HOURS configuring the machine.. after which you are constantly aware of the fact that you have an operating system... I'm not crazy about Windows either.. but if I have to choose I go to the one I can forget about while I'm working, which is Windows...
bobbyturnip 2 years ago
This is still true, but KDE 4.2 will change that, you should try it. It is simpler and more "united" than any operating system ive tried.
skenliv 2 years ago
KDE is not an operating system.
KDE is a cross platform desktop environment, it runs on various Unices as well as MS Windows.
KDE stands for K Desktop Environment.
Please learn more before posting comments like this
possiblyneil 2 years ago 8
I know, thought kubuntu but wrote KDE.. :-(
skenliv 2 years ago
Damn, you must have a panic attack going to a large supermarket, all those options for nourishment...
Ubuntu and it's diriviatives are great out of the box and you need not tinker with the options should you not _want_. Your point is nonsensical, but hey i dual boot, they both have their ups and downs.
I long for the day when linux is to windows what firefox is to IE. Communities can develop some very impressive things.
psptutorial 2 years ago 7
@bobbyturnip what you say might be true for distros like gentoo or arch linux, but distros like ubuntu have pretty much worked right out of the box for me on any machine I have installed it on,
and @skenliv KDE 4.2 is not an OS, its a Desktop environment
mikael110 2 years ago 2
Not true anymore. In fact, just the opposite. After a fresh install, Linux has way more tools installed so you can just start working than windows does out of the box. You should install both and try it for yourself. Once you install windows, don't you also need to install office just to get email, then if you're a programmer, you need to install Studio. Linux comes with all of this stuff out of the box. Don't even get me started on Windows drivers for your hardware.
scumola 2 years ago 3
Only on some of the versions, usually the older ones. That's why I didn't use it for a long time too, I couldn't be bothered with all the faffing about with settings.
Ubuntu at least isn't like this though. I tried that, it had most of the software installed and has stuff installed now to automate almost all the things that used to be such a PITA, with the exceptions being things the average user won't use.
You can run the OS off a CD without installing, why not give it a try
solidsquid85 2 years ago
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Free is to be a stuck up Linux fanboy running Red Fedora Ubuntu 12.5.0.2.0.0.0.02 rev J on your netbook.
"Hey guys, look what I can do!"
DannyTanner 2 years ago
Freedom is having the ability to troll a Youtube vid so that you can attention whore yourself to a group of strangers.
"Hey guys, look what I can do!"
starsky51 2 years ago
@DemiImp
yeah, this video totally lacks purpose.
aml3ient 2 years ago
It's not so good.
amire80 2 years ago
I'd like to support this video, because I like the idea of linux a lot. However, it makes a really bad argument. Linux means you have a choice and that you are free to choose? What?
DemiImp 2 years ago 2
@Ispyamoose
You have made it blatantly obvious you know nothing about linux.
There are several enterprise versions of linux that have exceptional support. Also, there are several programs such as vmware server and wine that are bringing the platforms closer together. Practically the only reason to run windows now is for gaming. Well, enjoy your slow, bloated, expensive, uncustomizable and unsecure operating system.
:-)
aml3ient 2 years ago
I'm a very happy Ubuntu user, after 15yrs of MS hype.
This is too soft, it should have been
"Free, from the grabbing tentacles of Bill Gates"
That's what it means to me.
Northern1961 2 years ago
... I dual boot.
mikewrichards 2 years ago