Even if Adobe were to port their software to Linux the problem is most people don't care. I am personally very sad to what Ms has done with Windows 10 but 99% of people out there don't know or don't care.
Besides that, Linux would need to run much more Windows' software than the Adobe suite to be even considered as a viable replacement for most people.
I do use Twitter. Actually it's the social network I use the most and I agree with your post. I hate how every company that seems to have some importance is acquired by a bigger fish: Whatsapp, Yahoo, Twitter.
Of course, I fear that whoever buys it they'll make bad changes.
It looks like the future of the internet will be controlled by Google, Microsoft and Facebook, everything being eventually acquired by them
It's time to move on if the new UI is better than the old if not we'd be better off with the old one.
I don't mind minor UI changes like those introduced until Win 7 but explain to me why on a desktop is better a flat UI, no borders on buttons, no shadows, huge UI elements, tons of whitespace. Those things are nice on a touchscreen, on my PC I want a high density UI.
In Linux at least the UI is decoupled from the base OS and thus you can choose whichever you like the most
I don't know if it's just me but I find Eclipse very cumbersome and unintuitive compared to Netbeans. In Netbeans things seem to be in logical places in Eclipse they're usually where I wouldn't normally look for them.
I certainly hope so since I've been using Netbeans for many years and I really like it. However, it looks to me that when Oracle donates some project to someone else they just want to stop investing in it, and something the size of Netbeans I don't think will get very far without a corporate sponsor
I haven't used Maemo but yes, Android is not a general purpose OS. I've yet to find a reason that we don't have "proper" OS on smartphones apart that the fact that the manufacturers don't want us to.
I had one of their Marble trackballs and my left button stopped working pretty soon. There was even a video on Youtube for replacing the microswitches for that EXACT model. That makes clear how common that is. It seems that if you really want to keep using Logitech mice and trackballs your only good alternative is to change the microswitches when they break
I haven't had much luck with Logitech mice. I bought one of their trackballs (Marble trackball, price around 35€) and the left button stopped working after about a year. Investigated a bit on the Internet and found out they use the same (crappy) microswitches on that model that on their super cheap (10€) mice. That model of microswitch is widely known to be unreliable.
Coincidentally I had such a cheap mouse and its left button also stopped working after some months of use. I checked that the microswitch was the same model as on the expensive trackball. That doesn't bother me much on a cheap product but I expected the more expensive product to have higher quality components.
I was reading a forum post about prostitution some time ago and a woman who was for prohibition essentially said (not with these words of course) that if men could get sex from prostitutes they would put less effort in seducing proper women. Yeah, you read it right, she was against prositution because it hurt her chances of meeting her blue prince.
If you think about it, it's the same reason (some) women talk badly about other women that they think give out sex too easily. i.e.: without a sufficient commitment (financial, sentimental, etc.) from the man they're having sex with.
I wish they fought instead about whose browser protects the user's privacy best. But being Google and Microsoft (which is trying to become Google) I guess that's not their top priority.
As an European let me say taxes make sense for some things. This is not one of them IMO. Free wifi for all? We could use that money in more pressing issues.
And in the effort to stay relevant they forced a phone UI onto their desktop OS, making me lose interest in their only piece of software I only cared about
Great post. And worst of all is that they're actually pushing most of this crap on desktop Windows:(. I've assumed I'll have to use some Linux DE to get a decent PC-like UI in the future
Since as you say, there's a small number of hardware models that run iOS the problems are most likely due to differences on installed apps and their data
Doesn't that happen to every iOS device with the last releases of the OS that run on them? That's what I gather from Apple users' comments.
I wonder if the OS gets too heavy for the hardware or it's an intentional thing
Yes, Android spying is really bad but that doesn't make it right for Windows to do the same thing. It looks even worse because PC OSs didn't use to do that.
What I hate most about this is that they don't give you the option to opt out of spying by paying some money. I'd gladly do it. Both on Android and on Windows. But. again, neither one gives you that option.
Amazon got it right with the Kindle: You can have it cheaper with ads or you can pay some more and have no ads
It's not Google Chrome: It doesn't send any of your data to Google. It's not controlled by a huge corporation. It has its own rendering engine which is a plus in my book. Diversity of web rendering engines is what makes web standards relevant. Get every browser to use WebKit and WebKit is the standard which is the same situation as when IE 6 was king.
In my mind that's a mistake on Android phone's manufacturers. I can't see the difference between full hd and higher on a 5 inch screen and so can't most people. So, for me, those phones are wasting battery pushing pixels I can't see.
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Even if Adobe were to port their software to Linux the problem is most people don't care. I am personally very sad to what Ms has done with Windows 10 but 99% of people out there don't know or don't care.
Besides that, Linux would need to run much more Windows' software than the Adobe suite to be even considered as a viable replacement for most people.
I do use Twitter. Actually it's the social network I use the most and I agree with your post. I hate how every company that seems to have some importance is acquired by a bigger fish: Whatsapp, Yahoo, Twitter.
Of course, I fear that whoever buys it they'll make bad changes.
It looks like the future of the internet will be controlled by Google, Microsoft and Facebook, everything being eventually acquired by them
It's time to move on if the new UI is better than the old if not we'd be better off with the old one.
I don't mind minor UI changes like those introduced until Win 7 but explain to me why on a desktop is better a flat UI, no borders on buttons, no shadows, huge UI elements, tons of whitespace. Those things are nice on a touchscreen, on my PC I want a high density UI.
In Linux at least the UI is decoupled from the base OS and thus you can choose whichever you like the most
It has Cortana installed and can't be turned of. Also, you can't make calls unless you're logged in with a Microsoft account.
They make one themselves
Nah, not necessary. You just hash the original and copy cells and if the hashes don't match just destroy the copy
And it will likely fail for the same reason Google Plus did: Most people are already on other services and can be bothered to switch to this one
I don't know if it's just me but I find Eclipse very cumbersome and unintuitive compared to Netbeans. In Netbeans things seem to be in logical places in Eclipse they're usually where I wouldn't normally look for them.
I certainly hope so since I've been using Netbeans for many years and I really like it. However, it looks to me that when Oracle donates some project to someone else they just want to stop investing in it, and something the size of Netbeans I don't think will get very far without a corporate sponsor
I haven't used Maemo but yes, Android is not a general purpose OS. I've yet to find a reason that we don't have "proper" OS on smartphones apart that the fact that the manufacturers don't want us to.
I had one of their Marble trackballs and my left button stopped working pretty soon. There was even a video on Youtube for replacing the microswitches for that EXACT model. That makes clear how common that is. It seems that if you really want to keep using Logitech mice and trackballs your only good alternative is to change the microswitches when they break
I haven't had much luck with Logitech mice. I bought one of their trackballs (Marble trackball, price around 35€) and the left button stopped working after about a year. Investigated a bit on the Internet and found out they use the same (crappy) microswitches on that model that on their super cheap (10€) mice. That model of microswitch is widely known to be unreliable.
Coincidentally I had such a cheap mouse and its left button also stopped working after some months of use. I checked that the microswitch was the same model as on the expensive trackball. That doesn't bother me much on a cheap product but I expected the more expensive product to have higher quality components.
I was reading a forum post about prostitution some time ago and a woman who was for prohibition essentially said (not with these words of course) that if men could get sex from prostitutes they would put less effort in seducing proper women. Yeah, you read it right, she was against prositution because it hurt her chances of meeting her blue prince.
If you think about it, it's the same reason (some) women talk badly about other women that they think give out sex too easily. i.e.: without a sufficient commitment (financial, sentimental, etc.) from the man they're having sex with.
Yeah, don't do this or I predict they will (al least try) to close PCs and make them as limited as mobile OSs.
I wish they fought instead about whose browser protects the user's privacy best. But being Google and Microsoft (which is trying to become Google) I guess that's not their top priority.
As an European let me say taxes make sense for some things. This is not one of them IMO. Free wifi for all? We could use that money in more pressing issues.
And in the effort to stay relevant they forced a phone UI onto their desktop OS, making me lose interest in their only piece of software I only cared about
Great post. And worst of all is that they're actually pushing most of this crap on desktop Windows :(. I've assumed I'll have to use some Linux DE to get a decent PC-like UI in the future
Since as you say, there's a small number of hardware models that run iOS the problems are most likely due to differences on installed apps and their data
Doesn't that happen to every iOS device with the last releases of the OS that run on them? That's what I gather from Apple users' comments.
I wonder if the OS gets too heavy for the hardware or it's an intentional thing
Yes, Android spying is really bad but that doesn't make it right for Windows to do the same thing. It looks even worse because PC OSs didn't use to do that.
What I hate most about this is that they don't give you the option to opt out of spying by paying some money. I'd gladly do it. Both on Android and on Windows. But. again, neither one gives you that option.
Amazon got it right with the Kindle: You can have it cheaper with ads or you can pay some more and have no ads
It's not Google Chrome: It doesn't send any of your data to Google. It's not controlled by a huge corporation. It has its own rendering engine which is a plus in my book. Diversity of web rendering engines is what makes web standards relevant. Get every browser to use WebKit and WebKit is the standard which is the same situation as when IE 6 was king.
In my mind that's a mistake on Android phone's manufacturers. I can't see the difference between full hd and higher on a 5 inch screen and so can't most people. So, for me, those phones are wasting battery pushing pixels I can't see.
Does Apple ever license their technology to third parties?
I know you're just trying to be funny but if anyone has a mental disability it's the execs who ordered the coders to put that crap in Win 10