You missed the point, X is the problem here, as a display platform it's got a lot of shortcomings... FLASH is only an example of what runs on top of that... like Aqua as part of OSX is great for a consumer desktop, it enables good media playback and refined fonts.
The adherence to X, regardless of the display manager (gnome, KDE, etc) will be the death of Linux on the desktop, you can argue all you want Dark Prince... the fact is, Linux is a failure on the desktop so far and not because the people writing the apps for it but the underlying platform... I support Unity and Canonical's move away from X, I cannot re-iterate this enough... but I also think they should've done it 5 years ago at least... On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > "...FLASH support sucks, well not only FLASH but all media > presentation sucks on Linux, it was not built with media presentation > in mind, but built for security over network presentation, this > concept is an archaic concept and needs to go." > > Again, Flash support is an adobe issue. I am not sure why people > insist that Flash issues are due to the FOSS community. I do not have > a problem with flash except on 64bit Linux (which is resolvable most > of the time). Youtube works fine. What do you mean by 'all media > presentation'? Codecs, movie/music playback? PPT files? > > Chris... > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Dino K <socalli...@cloudcomp.info> wrote: > > I think this pretty much sums up the state of linux mentality... the > > leftists and the rightists... > > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/9424/why-is-ubuntu-11-04-switching-to-unity > > IMO X is a large part of the reason why Linux is still a failure on the > > desktop, it's clunky, complex, and unwieldy and is a large part of the > > reason FLASH support sucks, well not only FLASH but all media > presentation > > sucks on Linux, it was not built with media presentation in mind, but > built > > for security over network presentation, this concept is an archaic > concept > > and needs to go. > > The search for the next display platform/driver is ongoing but IMO will > be > > very very late to the game... > > -DK > > > > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> LinuxUsers mailing list > >> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > > > > > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
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