by breezykoi
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- Paying makes sense when you actually need/use those services. Paying "because you can" feels wrong to me. If the goal is to support FOSS, there are many more ways to contribute than subscribing to a service you don't use.
- It looks like the desktop/workstation price is $25/yr, which seems pretty reasonable. For personal users, it is free for 5 concurrent machines. Unfortunately the per server price is $500/yr, which maybe competitive with some of the competition, but still seems steep to me. But then, while I run Ubuntu VMs or containers, I'm not really using it for bare metal servers any more.
For some comparisons, Proxmox is €370/yr/socket. RHEL Workstation is $196.90/yr, while server is $383.90/yr, and Oracle Linux is reportedly $1,199/socketpair/yr.
Given the free distro, subscription support model that tends to prevail, a pay once price with either no free, or on top of the free option might be a hard sell.
by willtemperley
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- I would happily pay for Linux if it came pre-installed on a machine it's guaranteed to work with. I mean flawlessly - I really don't want to configure a driver ever again.
Please someone create a linux laptop that:
1. Just works out of the box.
2. Has really good keychain management.
3. Comes with no bundled AI.
4. Good clipboard managment (like Handoff).
5. Excellent graphics APIs and an good UI framework.
Apple and Microsoft have lost the plot and there's a gaping wide space to fill here.
- For me, the immediate question isn't "should I pay to use Linux" (I already do).
This is a nonstarter for me simply because I don't do software subscriptions, and especially not for operating systems. However, this appears to be aimed at enterprise usage rather than personal anyway.
- IMO, paying is the best alternative to getting ads everywhere or losing future support because the people making updates lose interest or go out of business.
- Contrary to Betteridge's law of headlines, I would assert yes, and that is also the answer on the article for the TL;DR; folks out there.
Otherwise don't whine when projects die.
by estimator7292
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- Pay for linux, possibly. Pay Canonical for Linux, absolutely not. They're on my list of enshittifiers, who by definition should never be given any money in any form.
- Paying to have rust slop and systemd-something shoved down my throat? No way.
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