What is the lamest reason for giving up on Ubuntu/Linux you've ever heard?

[meindian523]

1st reason needs some adjustment in fstab to automount,assuming he's talking about a partition which holds his music.2nd one,

[Portable_Jim]

Linux doesn't have the blue screen of death.

Yes it does.
See image of it here: http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8596/3800yq1.jpg

[Tomatz]

Yes it does.
See image of it here: http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8596/3800yq1.jpg

Thats a blue screen of nearly death

[Frak]

Yes it does.
See image of it here: http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8596/3800yq1.jpg

Win?...err Fail?

[GepettoBR]

It's not always three easy commands.

./configure
sudo apt-get install X-dev
./configure
sudo apt-get install Y-dev
./configure
sudo apt-get install Z-dev alpha-dev beta-dev
./configure
sudo ln -s /path/to/something /path
./configure
make
<error somewhere>
make clean
<edits some code for current system>
make
make clean
<edits again>
make -j4
sudo make install

Most of the time it requires dependency resolution (from the authors own hand). Makes more sense just to click "Next" on a window and agreeing to a license (you agree to a license every time you install something on Ubuntu too).

Well, then, I guess I've just been lucky (Just like the troll who never had to restart his Windows machine. ) since I've never had that happen to me. Now I see why it would be annoying, especially since your scheme indicates that if there are multiple dependency problems you only get notified of one at a time :s

Just a clarification, though: What I said about EULAs is that they're put right in front of you, because they have to, because they restrict rights of use. Since the GPL doesn't, and most Linux software is GPL-licensed, you only really have to see it (and imply agreement) if you intend to modify / redistribute. You can use it without agreeing to the EULA, in spite of the acronym's meaning. Besides, EULAs are truly a "Windows thing", even though they do exist in Linux-native apps, for example with Opera and Adobe Acrobat (and obviously in OS X. Apple's EULAs are the meanest.): If I sudo apt-get install gimp, I don't have to read anything. If I install GIMP on Windows, I get an EULA screen with the GPL.

[Masquerade]

"you cant do anything with it"

"its for freaks"

"you cant even burn music on a CD"

and as we were talking about windows media player
"shut up, you and your linux dont even have windows media player"

[macintosh]

"It's too good"- macintosh

[sci-fi guy]

"you cant do anything with it"

Oh, I didn't know that. I'll be sure to stop right away.

"its for freaks"

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Ok, he wins that one.

"you cant even burn music on a CD"

I would like to know how burning works... Do music CDs have their own format? I once burned FLAC files to a disc and it played perfectly in the radio (which I doubt had FLAC codecs).

and as we were talking about windows media player
"shut up, you and your linux dont even have windows media player"

But we do have RealPlayer. *snicker*

[meindian523]

I dunno,but the do have a separate filesystem called ISO9660.

[GepettoBR]

I would like to know how burning works... Do music CDs have their own format? I once burned FLAC files to a disc and it played perfectly in the radio (which I doubt had FLAC codecs).

In theory, yes, but I don't really know the difference between cda and wav. I've never tried it with FLAC, but drag-n-drop burning wav files to data CDs has always worked for me.