What are Linux Users Going to Bitch About when there is a 64 bit Flash Player?

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I don’t get the Linux people (and I realize this is a bit of a generalization). Yesterday Adobe released Flash Player 9 for Linux. A big release and one that Linux users have been waiting for for a long time. They were right to be miffed at being skipped over in 8, but now that 9 is out, they’re up to par with everyone else and are no longer left out in the cold. Adobe stood by their word and continues to support the Linux community even though it accounts for a very, very small percentage of customers. Linux support for Flash is one of their stories and they do a great job.

So what do the Linux users do? Bitch about no 64 bit. Scroll down on the Digg thread and you’ll see plenty of complaints about no 64 bit Flash Player. On my ZDnet blog posting the one comment I got was about how without 64 bit support this wasn’t news.

So here’s my question, what are they going to bitch about when 64 bit support is here? The fact that Apollo doesn’t run on Linux? That it’s too hard to install? I just don’t get all the critisim.

[tags]Linux, Flash Player, Adobe[/tags’

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  • http://www.riapedia.com Mike Potter

    To answer your question: a 128 bit Flash Player?

    Mike

  • http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd John Dowdell

    Where’s Photoshop? And why doesn’t Adobe include its sourcecode with every delivery? ;-)

    (I actually like these folks, because they care a lot about something. Sometimes it’s the stance, the “this is who i am because i am in opposition to X” approach which is important, but I’m personally sympathetic to the goal of diverse low-level system configurations, the avoidance of monoculture. Adobe Flash Player doesn’t go as deep into any one OS as the OS routines do, but it serves a need in providing a lightweight predictable media/interactivity layer above various configurations.)

    jd

  • http://punkscum.org julien

    I totally agree, hopefully some of them already enjoy the great stuff that Adobe released :)

  • han

    they’ll probably find some clause in the license agreement that *might* be abused violate their privacy rights in a wartime situation.

  • http://www.colettas.org David Coletta

    This one has me puzzled too. I’d probably understand it better if I were steeped in the Linux world. It’s very tempting to come up with explanations about how Linux users are somehow different from everyone else, like for example that bitching about support for feature xyz on blogs is the best way to get things to happen in an open source world.

    Having read various developer blogs of people on the Linux player team, I’m really amazed at the accomplishment that the Linux version of the Flash 9 player represents, and excited about the markets it opens up.

  • http://polyGeek.com Oz

    You can please some of the people some of the time but you can’t please the Linux community, ever! :-)

    But you know, I’ll be dancing in the street the day that Adobe releases their Creative Suite for Linux. Hell, I’d pay double the price for it if I could dump Windows.

  • http://bharper.com Brandon Harper

    You have to consider the source rather than blame the mass– digg users who actually comment. IMHO, these are the 12-23 year old kids still living in their mom’s basement without any real world experience in technology to speak of other than purchases of Star Trek items on eBay and writing l33t PHP scripts.

    Oh, I should mention this so that I don’t seem biased against such people, I’m a Linux user/advocate.

  • http://www.zeuslabs.us/ Josh

    Once Flash Player goes 64-bit, their major argument will be that it isn’t open source. Sure, there’s Tamarin, but that won’t be enough. Secondly, they’ll complain about the content developers whose SWFs use too much CPU. However, the target of their ire will be Flash rather than those bad coders. Finally, if all else fails, they’ll go after a real shortcoming like the fact that Flash content doesn’t behave like the rest of the browser. At that point we’ll be able to simply tell them that they may not be using the right tool for the job, or it could actually be valid criticism that can be considered for future versions. I sincerely hope we reach that point!

  • David

    Dude – you nailed it!

    The Linux crowd are the squeeky wheel of the IT world….and they get FAR too much oil! If I was Adobe, I would drop Linux like a hot cake.

    Let’s take a look at the Lijux world – they are 5% of the OS market, but what does that 5% get you?

    90% of Linux installs are on boxes that sit in back rooms, and compute. Flash will never even be installed on them.

    At least Mac users are the 5% OS share that actually USE their computers! They tell you how easy and cool stuff is on a Mac – yeah, that can get old too, but at least they’ve got a point.

    Linux people are like that ex-girlfriend that just wouldn’t SHUT UP! (and I stress the “ex”)

    Good on ya Ryan.