Who needs iTunes?
The only decent thing about iTunes might be the quality of some codecs used. But then there are equivalents that are just as good, that are freely convertable. As for the iTunes site there is also allofmp3, because if you want to pay for your downloads, why not download them as unprotected huge quality files in a format of your own choice? You must be crazy to prefer the protected iTunes format. Also, read this. I don't care much about Gnome (I like KDE more), but I see the parallel with Mac OS X, mainly the lack of a default explorer-tree mode and the lack of customization of the system colors, or the almost impossibility to do those things. Quite seriously, the dumbed-down UI for navigating folders is ridiculous. Sure, huge 128x128 icons, single-click operations and myriads of folder windows opening up everywhere are supposed to be easier for newbies (who then would need to buy huge LCD-screens), but heck they'll overgrow it quickly (and personally I think it makes for a messy desktop that I find annoying and harder to use than a single-window open-in-place interface like for example that of TotalCommander). Simply put, the explorer tree is the…