Nowadays it’s crazy to think that you’d pay for a Linux distro as a regular desktop Linux user but there was a time where that had begun to form but Ubuntu is a big part of the reason that model completely fell off.
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04:23 No, Corel Linux did NOT have CDE, it was just KDE 1.x.
Zorin OS is actually sold… actually even in 2024
Speaking as someone who’s forking out for a hundred dollar a month AWS business support plan, there is a staggering market for time poor people who need help with not windows. Mint could make a $10 a month support plan for basic users and they would make a fortune. Or, do the old Apple care model and buy the support plans ad hoc, one year purchases with the ability to help someone through a transfer of data.
Zorin Professional
Corel Linux used a modified version of KDE, not CDE.
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I'd gladly pay whatever is the price of a windows license for a distro that works as well as windows for gaming, using multiple monitors, using freesync and the like. I've been trying all sorts of distros for a while and they're all a massive chore. Got nobara working sort of decently but it would still sometimes shit the bed with random weird bugs, like maximized windows not having the top bar with minimize, maximize and exit icons, taskbars getting messed up outta nowhere and so on.
Late to the party but those early Ubuntu days were awesome and it thus kinda hurts to see how things went after Ubuntu 10.10 from both sides, Canonical and the salty user base.
My first distro was Knoppix 3.7 on a well made CD-R that came via mail and which I still have, SUSE had LiveCD support around the same time too but it was Ubuntu that really changed the perspective of many.
I wouldn't mind donating a bit to a distro I like to keep it running but the days of nice distributions sold with big user manuals in a nice box like SuSE 8.2 are long gone.
Yeah, I bought copies of Debian and Linux Mandrake from my local bookstore back in the early '00s
There are still commercial end-user distros (atleast a few which have a commercial option, like ZorinOS)
I also ordered Ubuntu CDs back in the days because it was free and my internet connection was slow. That was awesome… However if Ubuntu wouldn't have been the killer of commercial end-user distros, another distro would have come up – or improved internet connection speeds would have killed it.
i would happily pay for the OS. I will pay for 2 years, and even if one of the features that are a big deal to me get added, I will continue for another 2.
I use Fedora KDE Right now. My wish-list features are:
* Kinetic scrolling
* A good mail and calendar app (that integrates into the calendar widget on the tray), ability to setup accounts from the system settings (like in gnome) and have them sync automatically to all mail+calendar apps. Ideally native clients
* Proper high refresh-rate support. I am having to use 60fps because otherwise firefox, the plasma shell, xwalyalnd all lag intensely sometimes when at 120FPS.
* Proper HDR support with ability to set SDR brightness. It is in Fedora KDE, but it does not set SDR brightness correctly, if at all. Moving the slider does nothing to the general UI brightness, unlike in windows. Windows has bad HDR support, yea, but the global brightness works. It's un-usable in the morning otherwise.
* Hardware acceleration baked in. (Looking at you Fedora KDE and Firefox)
Can Mozilla get their proverbial s together already lol
I paid for my first Linux distro in 1999. A cd from Macmillan called Linux For Windows which installed Mandrake 6.1 on your windows 98SE / ME file systems and you could dual boot. It was amazing and the game Clan Bomber was on it which is still one of my favorite pc games. Yes, I paid for Linux my first time.
I great example of the pay for a Linux distribution access for the consumer space other than ZorinOS,Mandriva and others.
Donated to Linux Mint 20 USD. Woudln't buy a distro. I ll donate if I stick to the soft and it works.
Linspire who bought out Xandros still sells their distro, its $29.99 for a no support license and $60 for a 12 month support license.
Without Ubuntu,everybody could be speaking"Arch btw",thanks Canonical
Buy? Never. If you ask to pay, I'll crack it. If you make something really good, I'll donate. Recently the Android kernel I was using stopped being maintained (Kirisakura my beloved) so I sent the dev a nice thank you donation for the amazing work.
I would pay for Ubuntu if Canonical get rid of snaps lol