Why out of the box Linux performance is still important
Recently I reviewed Linux Mint KDE edition and concluded that it's probably missed it's window for success now that distros like Ubuntu are now supplying codecs (etc) on demand. But someone posted a comment that made me second guess my judgement.
I'm not going back on my conclusion of Mint but I am going to explain why I now believe "out of the box" performance to be very important to the growth of Linux.
While out of the box performance is excellent; meaning you can install a new distro and have full media support and office packages from the offset, it's not really necessary now that packages can be downloaded on demand and the use of Synaptic Package Manager means that preloaded software is almost defunct. You can easily browse the catologue and cherry pick the application that suits you.
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