Hi guys,
I know why we are all here,
It's because we like Linux
Some of us like it because it's open source, some because it's free(no money), some because you don't have to install drivers, some because it's easy to develop things,
Whatever the reason may be, we should try to make it even better
I'm not saying this because I'm a good guy, I'm saying it because I'm actually selfish, I want to have the best things available
Since I use Linux every day I want to have the best performance possible, best drivers, games, programs that I have on Windows, etc.
Unfortunatly Linux is not quite there, I'm missing a lot of Windows programs, from time to time I get errors, freezes, crashes
So, I thought that to get rid of all these problems the Linux user base must increase
When you have 10 000 people try a program before you, they will find most of the problems and probably report them to get fixed.
Not only that, but when companies will see that Linux has so much users they will care to make their products work flawlessly on Linux and will treat Linux as a first class citizen
So helping Linux is actually helping us
If you agree with me let's see how can we help
I will start first telling you what I do:
1. I'm donating to the projects I like and use
2. I buy native Linux games, mostly from steam
3. Bug reports. It's important to tell the developers the problem that you found
4. Translations into my native language. Since I'm not good at coding, except PHP, at least this I can do
5. Tell my friends to try it
Now I'm planning to send some emails to hardware mufacturers, laptop manufacturers to ask them to better support Linux
Also I want to ask my ISP to add some mirror servers for sourceforge, ubuntu
In the end I will some emails to the developers of the programs that I use on Windows(e.g foobar2000) to make a Linux version or at least to open source the code, the same with game developing companies.
If you're with me on this, please do the same, the more we are, the better
BTW, if you're a coder, you could help the most by developing and fixing things for linux
If you have any ideas please post them
Thank you
I know why we are all here,
It's because we like Linux
Some of us like it because it's open source, some because it's free(no money), some because you don't have to install drivers, some because it's easy to develop things,
Whatever the reason may be, we should try to make it even better
I'm not saying this because I'm a good guy, I'm saying it because I'm actually selfish, I want to have the best things available
Since I use Linux every day I want to have the best performance possible, best drivers, games, programs that I have on Windows, etc.
Unfortunatly Linux is not quite there, I'm missing a lot of Windows programs, from time to time I get errors, freezes, crashes
So, I thought that to get rid of all these problems the Linux user base must increase
When you have 10 000 people try a program before you, they will find most of the problems and probably report them to get fixed.
Not only that, but when companies will see that Linux has so much users they will care to make their products work flawlessly on Linux and will treat Linux as a first class citizen
So helping Linux is actually helping us

If you agree with me let's see how can we help
I will start first telling you what I do:
1. I'm donating to the projects I like and use
2. I buy native Linux games, mostly from steam
3. Bug reports. It's important to tell the developers the problem that you found
4. Translations into my native language. Since I'm not good at coding, except PHP, at least this I can do
5. Tell my friends to try it
Now I'm planning to send some emails to hardware mufacturers, laptop manufacturers to ask them to better support Linux
Also I want to ask my ISP to add some mirror servers for sourceforge, ubuntu
In the end I will some emails to the developers of the programs that I use on Windows(e.g foobar2000) to make a Linux version or at least to open source the code, the same with game developing companies.
If you're with me on this, please do the same, the more we are, the better
BTW, if you're a coder, you could help the most by developing and fixing things for linux
If you have any ideas please post them
Thank you