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Linux provides the ability to do this as well(location API), via geoclue which is installed by default on Fedora and Ubuntu.

How not? Any PC operating system with an MTP client can manage files on Android 4 and later. On Xubuntu, once I ran sudo apt install mtp-tools mtpfs (per this answer), GVFS detected my phone, and "Android/Internal storage" and "Android/SD card" appeared in the file manager.

Linux distributions come with a package management system. These range from good to great. apt is pretty awesome. Use it. Want a newer version of something? With Ubuntu, use a PPA.

https://askubuntu.com/question...

I thought of those at first, but in such case, the issue is memory space and not memory access time which would be improved. Found these benchmarks(end of post)

Seems x32 would reduce the memory footprint up to 25%, might be to somebody doing a tight design.

They do offer $15/mo for 5 accounts... which is the only way Spotify is worth it. The downside is that nobody offers less than $10/mo so it's hard to find a decent alternative that doesn't try to lock you into a specific platform like Apple Music

What do you mean "Lock you into a specific platform"? There is an Apple Music Client for Android and iTunes (which is also an Apple Music Client) is available for Windows, too.

https://play.google.com/store/...

https://www.apple.com/itunes/d...

Linux, as usual, takes the hindmost, sorry. I guess when it's finally the year of the Linux Desktop, things will be different...

Wait! They're different NOW! (If you have Ubuntu, at least).

https://askubuntu.com/question... ...or other Distros:

http://www.tunefab.com/tutoria...

http://www.sidify.com/guide/ho...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

So just use something else https://askubuntu.com/question.... Just because it is popular does not make it good, which is why the disease reference. Just because it is wide spread, does not mean you don't want to get rid of it. In this case M$ has a terrible reputation for invasion of privacy, corrupt practices, a willingness to install software they know you don't want. So a communications app, ask one question, do you think M$ will listen in or not, now or some time in the future based upon past and current practices, you can lie if you wish but you know the real answer, of course they will.

A good unix tool.

I got it to run and update properly with WINE staging on xubuntu 16.04 using this walktrough:

https://askubuntu.com/question...

The second advice, the one who says you have to uninstall PlayOnLinux. All i had to do is rename the file i downloaded with some name in .exe. It was two weeks ago.

But i agree it is a hassle. I successfully ran sidplay95 on it too.

IL2 sturmovik flat out refused to install. Falcon 4 BMS worked but without recognising properly my HOTAS so there was no point. I have not booted windows for more than a year.

I work at a place that writes various web apps (Java, PrimeFaces) used by various large government institutions or government institution-like companies. The applications work with huge sums of money, so security is important to these institutions. For some or other bizarre reason, IE (11) is still specified as the platform minimum, other browsers being optional. I guess these institutions
(1) follow the adage of you can't go wrong with the big names (Microsoft, Oracle, IBM) (HAHA)
(2) cost is not an issue
(3) want to control what goes on to client machines at their site. (Hmmmm....)
(4) someone did mention compatibility issues with PrimeFaces and different browsers, but I haven't seen anything yet.
(5) I guess plain old inertia also plays a role.

Recently our IT support dept started a drive to voluntarily get us converted to Linux workstations (simple old Mint). Their main reasons:
(a) Cost
(b) Speed

The problems with getting IE to run on this is basically the main stumbling block holding us back. It seems the best solution is a virtual box with Win on it - which negates at least the cost benefit.

I'd be happy to switch, have been using a similar Linux setup before starting this gig without trouble and loved it, but sometimes it's just too much trouble to push back against the bureaucracies and old entrenched ways of thinking and senior peoples' say so - there are more important entrenched issues to be pushed against (another shop that uses Agile in the "not right" way) so one prioritizes battles to fight.

Clarification about the upper buttons: I meant when the browser isn't fully maximised; also you can modify that behaviour. My question is about why being that the default setup, is that comfortable for a Linux user? For me, it isn't.

Yes, it's a Pyhrric decision, to to sure. But it makes cleaning up the mess later that much less work. My point was that limiting your exposure to those avenues for which you have already surrendered is better than opening up a new one.

This article is a good explanation as to why it's best to avoid Blu-Ray altogether, though. Fortunately, as I said earier, Blu-Ray's improvement over DVD is marginal, at best, anyway.

I carry a PenDrive, not Laptop; https://askubuntu.com/question...

Ubuntu handles that one of two ways:

The buttons were moved from the right side of the window to the left side because Ubuntu was planning an amazing new feature called "windicators" ("window indicators") which were going to go on the right side of the window bar. These would show, for example, a progress bar for a background task in an app, online/offline indicator for server connection status, etc. My favorite idea: they were supposed to also provide convenient per-app volume control or mute. (PulseAudio does allow per-app volume controls but there isn't any window chrome for it; you have to go to the audio control panel, find the list of running audio apps, and control from there.)

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/333

Windicators... never happened.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/58466/what-is-the-current-status-of-windicators

This announcement, that the window buttons are going back to the right side, indicates to me that Ubuntu has officially given up on ever implementing "windicators".

The cron tool can be used to run a command at a given time, provided that the computer is on and the command exists.

  set a connection as metered. W

I woke up to find that my system had[...] fucked the bootloader so I couldn't boot into Linux any more.

It's easy enough to fix the bootloader with a live session. Here's how to do it if you're running Ubuntu..

From the Shuttlesworth quote
  " When Windows was mainstream they hated on it."

In what mad universe is windows no longer mainstream?

BTW http://askubuntu.com/questions/21730/how-does-ubuntu-make-money

"it'll mean closed-source graphics drivers will have to support 2 display servers, and they may not want to do that"

Okay. That's sort of true, but one of the big things was that Canonical from word start seemed hostile to the Wayland community. Now that's not saying a lot because as we all know a lot of communities in the FOSS world are pretty hostile by nature. So I'm not saying that justifies the hate that went down, but it play a big role.

Here's a link from the Ask Ubuntu site and the first comment under the accepted answer pretty much sums up the frustration that a lot of folks had.

This still doesn't answer what advantages mir offers, it just answers why Wayland was not chozen

Canonical blows at PR, if they were trying actively trying to woo people to their argument, they were doing an incredibly bad jobs at it. Now I get, they're developers and they don't need to be disturbed with BS like, "Hey! Why you doing this thing Canonical? Why you no just use Wayland?" etc. However, Canonical could have easily stepped in and really done some outreach to help people get behind their brand, which they sort of did; I know Jono Bacon did a whole lot of outreach and he was pretty damn amazing at it. I personally don't think Ubuntu was the same when he left but that's seriously just me, I think. However, the point was that Canonical constantly wasn't always forthcoming about their plans and it really got heated as the infamous "Not Invented Here" argument really took them like a California wildfire. NIH basically took everything that they were working on and twisted it into a conspiracy theory of how this was all a splintering of pure bred Linux (for whatever that means).

You take that crazy NIH mentality and add it a touch of salt from people thinking that Canonical was "M$" in disguise, or they were some young upstarts (ha! I made myself laugh with upstart) that didn't understand the philosophy of Unix, there were a few more crazy notions out there but I think those two covered a lot but I digress. You take all that fervor and combine it with Canonical's lack of touching base and at times actively retreating from addressing this and it basically was a fire no one was putting out.

Now I'll say that initially Canonical did try to stick the olive branch out there, but they got a first degree burn and basically said never again (ish, but mostly just never really said anything outside their circle so it was mostly a "well we're just not going to talk to them anymore"), only later to see themselves on the spit over some coals. I don't think Canonical did anything wrong per se but FOSS seems to be a different world of thinking of software purity. That purity comes in about a billion different flavors but they range from RMS grade "open source or nothing" to RedHat grade "we are the community work with us or become an outsider." I think Canonical just simply pissed off enough of those groups to finally reach a tipping point where it became mainstream to piss on Ubuntu.

I will say this, the different communities in the FOSS world are highly ideological and that's helped them to a point, but we are reaching the top of the curve where that helps and moving into the part where it begins to start hurting. At some point these multitude of little tribes and what not are just going to have to let go of the notion of "pure bred" Linux and realize the world is changing. Things like Wayland, systemd, GNOME3, and so on are things that exist and be it that they conform to what that group thinks is good or not, they'll just have to accept the world the way it is or get busy on the alternative. However, a lot of folks seem to be content with either purify with fire or apathetically stating, "get thicker ski

You can do that running Unity as DE as well as with any other DE. But you need to do it from cli. See for instance: https://askubuntu.com/question...

He had no choice but to admit defeat. He's positioning the business for either an outside investment or an IPO (in other words, he wants to cash out). As for redirecting resources, some departments are being hit with layoffs of up to 60%.

Other failures:

• Ubuntu Android emulator
• UbuntuTV Hardware TV - a ripoff of SammyTV open source project
• Ubuntu Smartphone - remember Ubuntu Edge?
• Ubuntu tablet
• Ubuntu ONE Music Store - RIP June 2014
• Ubuntu ONE Cloud Storage - RIP June 2014

And of course absolutely horrific color schemes ...

I'd like to put my experience here. Just bought an Acer Aspire ES 15 (ES1-533-P10D). Reasonable budget laptop with Windows 10, but I don't want W10, I want Linux.
Ubuntu user, but prefer cinnamon, so decided to use Mint. Been running it in a VM so thought I was ready.

Use unetbootin to make myself a bootable USB - no, it didn't boot. Tried several times. Don't really know what's wrong. Some people suggest dd'ing the iso image directly to the USB device - doe this work? Didn't care. One of the reasons I got this laptop was for the CD drive, which is unusual these days. Put mint on a disk and tried to boot it.

Lots of CD scratching, a 'dah daah' noise, but a blank screen. Mint simply does not even boot past the bootloader.

Burn an Ubuntu CD......boots, I select install. Seems to get going......then it freezes. Turns out I have to do this:
http://askubuntu.com/questions...
(good thread with a good answer, and shows the flexibility of Linux, but was still a pain, even getting a terminal up in the Live CD is not exactly obvious).
Look at what you've got to do - install Linux without installing the bootloader, then chroot and install the bootloader separately without it probing nvram. How is a beginner to figure that out, even with this post which was lucky I saw it or I wouldn't have figured it out.

Finally got the thing to boot, but I had to turn off hard drive encryption, which is unfortunate, but I'm still a TrueCrypt user anyway.
Get cinnamon: (to pretend I'm using Mint):
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
sudo apt-get remove unity nautilus
Machine works fine now, but still doesn't ACPI shutdown - I have to press the button. Maybe a kernel update will fix that one day...

--I wonder if anyone has ever thought of porting par2 to a FUSE filesystem? ;-)

--Here's the closest thing I found with a quick search:

http://askubuntu.com/questions...

I think a systemd-free Debian is the right way to go; systemd does have a lot of issues, enough to not have it be the default in a distribution that's more committed to software freedon and is managed democratically, like Debian. So, I support Devuan.

However, their website is just scary awful. Not that it isn't aesthetic, but they have some too-smart-for-their-own good website system. I haven't seen it anywhere else - perhaps it was developed by people related to the project itself? But, honestly - it's baroque; it's confusing; you can't figure out how to post what and where, and it lets you believe you might be able to post something only to be disappointed when it's not accepted. So not only is documentation lacking but it's also close to impossible to discuss anything (specifically problems you might be having with installation etc.)

So, dear Devuaners - stick to one major earth-shattering norm change, don't try to force your weird website management ideas onto us. If you had something like AskUbuntu.com or even the less-polished ask.libreoffice.org - that would be awesome.

BTW - It's interesting to note just how many packages you need to fork in order to make your Debian run without systemd.

Personnally, as a Linux sysadmin, I've never had any problem running Linux on a laptop since 2008 ;-) Sadly, since UEFIs came out, the average user is usually repelled at the installation stage : either their Ubuntu install media isn't detected (even though it is UEFI-compatible), so they have to install it in Legacy mode, which clobbers their Windows boot, or they stumble upon this great Windows "feature" which, even if the install happened, makes it seem as if it didn't as soon as you reboot Windows. Or it can be a one-time Windows update which clobbers their Linux partition instead. What fun after a first install !

IMHO, Windows is toxic, and should be removed from any computer that should work reliably. Thanks to Microsoft's lobbies, installing and using Linux on laptops has become much more difficult than it used to be, and now my Linux-curious users are afraid to do it themselves (as well they should be). Once their system is up and running, I've yet to receive a complaint about Unity or hardware handling, though. Everything pretty much works out of the box (although my users don't have brand-new laptops with the latest hardware, which helps).

I have a 64 bit kernel. This error appears when you've enabled i386 packages on an amd64 install of Debian. It doesn't prevent installation or usage of Chrome but the error is breaking some additional stuff for me since I'm encountering it in a Qubes Debian 8 template. See this page for some more details on the error.

Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chr...
Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

More details on the issue can be found in the 'fix' that I linked to (which doesn't work for me or others.)

Does anyone have a fix for that error about the missing i386 file on Ubuntu/Debian when certain 32 bit packages are present? I've found a few proposed solutions, but none of them work. On my main box (Qubes OS, using a Debian 8 template), this error is especially annoying because it is preventing Qubes' update scripts from properly executing.

Is it an apt missing or held package?

Does anyone have a fix for that error about the missing i386 file on Ubuntu/Debian when certain 32 bit packages are present? I've found a few proposed solutions, but none of them work. On my main box (Qubes OS, using a Debian 8 template), this error is especially annoying because it is preventing Qubes' update scripts from properly executing.

And totally incorrect news at that. What a load of crap.

The SSD isn't using any kind of RAID - it's an NVM Express SSD module and Linux doesn't have NVMe driver suport yet. It incorrectly reports it as RAID. This has been known about since at least July, http://askubuntu.com/questions...

Windows doesn't have NVMe driver support on installation media, either, which is why you have to download the NVMe driver from Microsoft if you want to reinstall Windows from a disc.

Manufacturers have a long history of semi-deliberately screwing up linux support on laptops.

For example part of ACPI is a table in NVRAM called the Differentiated System Description Table; manufacturers put information in the DSDT that tell the operating system about devices that need switching on and off when going into various power states. One of the features of ACPI is that the DSDT can give different operating systems different instructions -- a feature I can think of no justification for, at least as far as the user's benefit is concerned.

Some manufacturers (Toshiba) on some models simply detect the Linux case and turn off a bunch of stuff at boot time, like the sound card and the network cards. This is why I had to learn about that DSDT shit in the first place. The hardware is all supported by Linux, and if you boot with ACPI turned off they work flawlessly, but of course you have no power management. The fix is a dynamic replacement of DSDT and Linux boot time, which makes kernel upgrades a chore, but in principle the fix is simple: copy the stuff the manufacturer says to do under "Windows" and paste it into the "Linux" section. Then everything works perfectly, but the rigamarole is way beyond what the average user can tolerate, and it's purely the manufacturer being a prick to customers who want Linux.

Adding to that, both emacs and vim support "undo", another clear advantage over nano.

Incorrect, nano 2.3.5 and up now supports undo/redo.

I can't quite tell what you're asking. Are you asking if I've used a Linux distro? Yes... a significant portion of my work career involved using (and sys admin stuff, too) SLES 9.x+ and RHEL 4.x+, in addition to AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Windows. I've personally run OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Mint, Elementary, and Fedora. I currently have a Elementary on a laptop (personal use), in a VM (contract work), RHEL 6 and 7 in VMs (full time job), and use a MBP for work. Which I wish ran a Linux distro, but I can't. :)

As for the devices themselves ... most of the unrecognized issues I've run into, to be fair, are with wireless network dongles, and it was a while ago. I was joking. I haven't had trouble lately, though I didn't even try to get my Fujitsu ScanSnap s1300i (according to link, it's technically possible, but looks like too much of a pain).

But, due to some other software restrictions, I really haven't used Linux as my primary home computer for a while, so I haven't been exposed to trying to use too many USB devices lately.

In reality, I would guess that Linux is a better bet with older USB stuff that conformed to standards, Windows with newer (but Linux will probably work, too, either out of the box or with some effort).

Oh, in the past I'd also run into annoying issues with USB drives and caching if you forget to eject, which I never ran into with Windows (though I've heard it's theoretically possible to encounter it).

Seriously, if you use Linux and think this is not an issue that affects you, think again.
http://askubuntu.com/questions...
This means that Ubuntu 16.04 requires kernel modules with DKMS (ie: 'drivers') to be signed by the same key that the bootloader uses, ie. the microsoft key. That's right, you can't use secure boot if you wish to use kernel modules like nvidia and virtual box (unless you sign them yourself, which is not so easy). So even Linux needs drivers signed by Microsoft.
In Ubuntu at the moment you cannot turn this off (without disabling secure boot in its entirety - assuming your hardware supports that).

I can tell you from first hand experience, it was opt out only, and there was no notification. Here's a popular AskUbuntu article which shows how complicated it has been over the years (the interface changed a few times, etc). This PCWorld article claims that in the beginning there wasn't even a GUI option to disable it, meaning you had to know it was there, find the package and purge it. SUPER sketchy.

It doesn't matter if they remove it as this point. As shuttlecock himself said of the whole fiasco, "[they've] got root." I think it really goes to show how little Ubuntu respects its userbase and trusted position (having root of a sizeable install base, afterall). I don't see Ubuntu as a trustworthy entity, and I haven't seen anything which mitigates their actions. It's no longer about the Amazon thing; now it's about what will be next. Ubuntu is no longer trustworthy.

No. Let copyright exist for those who want it. Instead start using and promoting Free Software.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/...
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/...
http://askubuntu.com/questions...

Wayland is a protocol, just like X11 is.

You can read about why Wayland is better here. To put it simply, one of the things Wayland is supposed to do is take out the middle man, sort of like buying shoes online and skipping the cost of the store.

I've had that happen before, many years ago, with some other bit of software. You have to have the package manager remove old dependencies that it thinks are no longer required. Here's someone on the Ubuntu forum with a similar issue: http://askubuntu.com/questions...

I imagine the GP was trying to free up some space so asked for old packages that were no longer needed to be removed, and the package manager just decided to delete everything it had previously marked as no longer required. The correct behaviour would be to re-check all dependencies first, which I'm sure you can manually force somehow but that doesn't excuse this.

Hmmm http://askubuntu.com/questions/187022/how-can-i-send-a-custom-desktop-notification
To customize a few stuff like notifs time ... http://askubuntu.com/questions/110969/notify-send-ignores-timeout
Also some applications, eg skype, allow to enter a script path in the settings, triggered each time a notification is sent.

Hmmm http://askubuntu.com/questions/187022/how-can-i-send-a-custom-desktop-notification
To customize a few stuff like notifs time ... http://askubuntu.com/questions/110969/notify-send-ignores-timeout
Also some applications, eg skype, allow to enter a script path in the settings, triggered each time a notification is sent.

"i used to use virtual desktops - in the last millenium. Since it becamse possible to use more than one monitor, this is m preferred method of work."

Mine too... in addition to several virtual desktops. Why not having the best of both worlds?

"At work I use an Ubuntu workstation [...] In addition I have an old laptop running [...] with a newer laptop running Windows 7"

So, you see? You not only have several virtual desktops, but several physical ones. There must be something about it.

As for the original question, KDE's Activities*1 is exactly what he's asking for.

*1 see, for instance, http://askubuntu.com/questions...

Cross-application support cuts both ways.

Yes yes, MS Office is more popular. I concede that makes it a more practical choice for many. But that doesn't mean it's better.

http://askubuntu.com/questions...

That document is several years old now.

Oh, so it's not enabled by default in my distro?

It appears to be enabled currently in both Ubuntu, Fedora, and RHEL and CentOS.

Oh, great, it's experimental.

It was marked experimental in 2013. In the context of a discussion about a feature that hasn't even been introduced in Windows, it's fair to note that Linux developers have been working on such a feature, and made it generally available several years earlier.

Wonderful! If I turn it on, it may suddenly turn itself off when I get a kernel update for 14.04.

It was disabled in Ubuntu while they tried to diagnose instability in a PPC kernel. The feature was not related to the instability.

If you don't like Ubuntu's method of kernel maintenance, by all means, use a different distribution. However, the practices of one company should not be considered a defect in *Linux*.

Saying you have something when it's experimental, not enabled by default, enables and disables with updates, and not easily available to the vast majority of your users is silly.

It would be, perhaps, but you have all of your facts wrong.

I ditched GNOME the day that I received the new Evince after an update. After encountering the new 'pretty' interface, it took me over 10 minutes to find out how to open a fucking file.

Apparently, all functionality has been delegated to the single Hamburger Menu Button (since that's what's hip and cool in web design these days!) -- but this button doesn't appear if your window is too small. You know what doesn't have that problem? Menu bars. It's almost like the classic 'File/Edit/View' is a taboo in UI design these days!

The entire 'but you have more vertical space!'-argument is also a load of bull. Going back to Gedit, the tabs are larger, and so is the title bar. In the screenshots you linked, old gedit (title bar + menu bar + tabs) has approx. 74px of space used; the new gedit (title bar/toolbar combo + tabs) uses approx. 84px! If you really wanted to save that precious vertical space, why not just turn off the toolbar?

The GNOME foundation claims that "[t]he design of Evince is centered around creating a natural experience [...] where you hardly even know that Evince exists". After switching to MATE's Atril I can wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment; I hardly know that Evince exists!

blu ray is a great reason to include a modern optical drive.

Are there any licensed BD video player apps for X11/Linux yet? I say "licensed" because comments to an answer recommending VLC mention the "Host certificate revoked" error message.

I'm assuming you're using Ubuntu, in which case it isn't too hard to add another desktop environment.
http://askubuntu.com/questions...

As for BFQ, you'd have to download the kernel source, patch it for BFQ, and configure it for your system, selecting the necessary drivers, then compile it, and then update the bootloader to load the new kernel. It's a lot of work that you probably don't want to go through.
Here's a link as to why Ubuntu doesn't support it. It's still young, and unlike CFQ the scalability is much lower. It's probably just easier for them to use CFQ and CFS.
http://askubuntu.com/questions...

I'm assuming you're using Ubuntu, in which case it isn't too hard to add another desktop environment.
http://askubuntu.com/questions...

As for BFQ, you'd have to download the kernel source, patch it for BFQ, and configure it for your system, selecting the necessary drivers, then compile it, and then update the bootloader to load the new kernel. It's a lot of work that you probably don't want to go through.
Here's a link as to why Ubuntu doesn't support it. It's still young, and unlike CFQ the scalability is much lower. It's probably just easier for them to use CFQ and CFS.
http://askubuntu.com/questions...

AAC files downloaded from iTunes work fine on all Sony gear (including the PlayStation). And quite a lot of other audio gear.

And of course, you can run iTunes on a Linux box if you really want to - it's not like a few extra steps are a problem for a Linux user.

http://askubuntu.com/a/376386

1) Systemd works great on the several machines I've tried, from an 8 year old home-built rig to my newer ThinkPad Carbon 2. Booting and shutting down are lightning quick.
Unity specific:
2) Place an option for Click-to-Minimize with the taskbar. This fundamental feature shouldn't require Unity-Tweak-Tools.
3) Get rid of the ugly boxes around the taskbar icons: https://askubuntu.com/question...
4) Really a new icon set is needed. Yes there are some great ones out there, which again seems to require Unity-Tweak-Tools e.g.: http://www.noobslab.com/2015/0...
5) Why not just include Unity-Tweak-Tools and call it Advanced or something, since basically everything requires it.
6) The Unity top bar is not useful. Honestly Windows 7 and newer has more efficient use of space since the taskbar, notifications and clock are all on the same bar. All it all it's a nice enough UI though.
7) After just the few tweaks above, I think Unity is excellent and no problems using it over any other Linux DE/WM.