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I recently read through a post on "The Blog of Helios". The article was about the troubles of porting Osmos to Linux. There were apparently many struggles with audio and video support, due to the variety of platforms. This isn't surprising when we consider that variety is Linux's main selling point. Don't like [insert feature] in Ubuntu? Try Arch. Don't like [insert feature] in Arch? Try Slackware, ad infinitum. Yet, this hurts developers who are not part of the community and are writing software for a profit. Which distributions should they support? Which audio systems? Which DEs? Which WMs? Which graphics drivers? Which GUI toolkits? And these problems can be more serious than they at first appear. If you make the wrong choices with Linux, you may not just fail to sell the software, you could anger the Linux community and lose sales with other products as well (**cough** KDE4 **cough**).

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Blasphemy. By The Power Of ROOT, I Have The Power!

Everyone knows there is only one true OS.
Debian the universal OS.
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days. from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10

Religion who said anything about religion?

I wouldn't take The Book of Mozilla literally. Everything is a metaphor there.

btw, You got the true OS wrong. The system I was brought up to use (ie. slackware) is the only one true OS

"Woe unto them that are Slackless, for BOB shall smite them hip and thigh and a few other places!"
--The Gospel according to St Brian, ch. 967, v. 30062. Authorised Version.

... and another quote from the very same book [Unauthorised Version]:

"Thou shall have no other distros before Slack, for Bob shall bring great sorrow upon your MBR"