And worst of all, a lot of these bugs have NOT been fixed for AGES. Some of the bugs you have listed on there have been around for a good 10 years with no fix in sight. This is linux in general. Some of them more glaringly obvious than others. You can submit these bugs on the bug reporting, but it always ends up with a big discussion and ends up being marked down as not important or my favorite, "won't fix". Thus, we end up with a kind of half-assed desktop.
The worst thing I hate doing is having to look through all these posts all over the net to find solutions to a lot of these problems. So linux desktop takes me less than 5 minutes to install, but it takes me a whole week to get setup properly because I'm scouring the net for solutions to issues. Or when I update, it breaks half my fixes and I end up spending another week to find solutions due to the update breaking the previous solutions.
Diss Microsoft Windows 10 all you want, but that was the smoothest upgrade I ever did in my life for anything Microsoft. It was also the easiest install I ever did for a new PC. The desktop works, everything works. Granted I don't like all the telemetry crap and I have to literally firewall all outgoing communications now, but come on, you know Microsoft did a good thing here and it's something linux needs to strive for or we'll continue to have everything held up with glue. Linux Desktop is now the Windows 98 SE, everyone laughs at it.
I don't think so. Android tablets with locked hardware is gaining ground and linux support for these devices is pretty abysmal to none. The one market where linux could shine is being shunned by the open source community on a grand scale. I would love to have linux on some of these devices, but there are none to be found.
What else can you buy? Currently Dell has one of the best spec lightweight notebook with linux support. All the other ones are pretty much junk except Apple's Macbook pro. The choices are starting to be very disappointing and I have no desire to move to some android tablet for my work, considering that linux support for these devices are abysmal at best. Luckily for PC's, I can still build whatever I want.
Look at the date and look at the blurred building. It's old. You'll find many streetview maps of Germany like this. But you want to know the funny part is from your link? Move up forward a bit and you see a bunch of students with a professional camera taking video or pictures of the very building that's blurred out. Ah the hypocrisy.
US schools are bureaucratic nightmares. Where as a lot of European schools just have a director and a bunch of teachers and usually much smaller with a much tightly integrated community, US schools operate like little prisons with security guards, lots of office work secretaries, counsellors, principals and vice principals, etc etc. Lets also not forget about the school board and school districts with their luxurious salaries and beautiful office buildings. Most school employees get treated better than the kids while we stuff the kids into over crowded classrooms. The kids are usually an after thought.
I had the same feelings, but it's still not a bad distribution and I still recommend people to install it, either Xubuntu or Kubuntu. That installer is a breeze for anyone.
What alternative distributions have the "Just freaking works" on my hardware without having to spend all day trying to figure out why it's not working?
I'm an Arch user, but Ubuntu just seems to have things right most of the time, with release cycles, security updates, development. So they make a few mistakes, but they're willing to correct them and move on.
The Intel NUC's do have way better performance and power usage. But, the Raspberry Pi price point makes it pretty damn good as well. Depending what you're doing, making a information display would cost me in excess of $300-$400 using the NUC (You realize you have to buy memory for some of the devices?), vs just under $100 with the PI. Not only that, the PI breaks (Never had one break yet), it's pretty trivial and cheap to get a replacement. So really depends what you need. Both are pretty good.
Add to that horrible management in AMD. Sure Intel was doing some BS moves, but AMD was completely oblivious to what was going on because of their internal politics. AMD would screw things up even if they did release some ground breaking CPU or GPU. Meanwhile, all their stuff sucks up more energy than my own toaster oven.
Microsoft made a tablet people want. I don't want a tablet that's just a big glorified touch screen phone. I can write on the surface and OneNote has been an excellent note taking application for many many years. The thing also runs Windows applications just fine, especially cad software. Pretty much Microsoft has finally succeeded in making an excellent tablet by combing some of the Windows BS desktop tablet features and used it to make a nice tablet with a Windows desktop if needed. And it works pretty decently.
Nothing. Continue on as if nothing is going on. Most companies that run Windows Server run some hybrid mess of linux with windows anyways that makes no sense.
Consumers? I see all these devices now in the industrial and professional world. I had a company call me about their lines shutting down randomly. Guess what I discovered? Someone was logging into these machines remotely from another plant and sabotaging the lines just so the plant they were working at would look better in efficiency. They weren't logging into the machine directly, but they were logging into a random display device to access the machine. And then you have all these wonderful vulnerable PLC's to access because it's on the same network and since every PLC manufacturer doesn't really give a damn about security, easy to access.
Nobody cares about security until something happens. In fact, nobody even considered the possibility that someone was logging into the system and breaking the machines. Then someone like me shows up, fixes it for the day. But with no one maintaining anything, it's just a matter of time before it happens again. The infrastructure is not even setup to prevent something like that in the first place.
And then you have Teamviewer, which has now taken over as an industry standard for every new machine out there with its crappy security (Really, all I need to know is the key, easy to get by just visiting the place and playing around with the UI). Teamviewer bypasses firewalls because firewalls at 90% of businesses don't really block anything. It's like an open door to everything. What a wonderful world we live in.
I'm on Arch, 4k resolution, using an Nvidia GTX980. Nvidia driver 352.63. I would try 358.16, but that driver is broken for me and causes my 4k monitor to start going nuts no matter what configuration settings I use.
The freezing doesn't happen often, but only happens on badly encoded videos that triggers it. But when it does happen, boy is it annoying! I can login SSH and kill X, but even when I restart X, videos no longer work and instantly freeze the system again forcing me to reboot the whole system anyways.
The problem is that California has all the logistical capacity and ports in the state that drops costs down dramatically, especially when a lot of final production manufacturing is still in California. So you're still going to have a very hard time competing against a business who deals with the bullshit regulations in California when their business is next to your huge potential client and next to every other supplier or have easy access to the port for shipping, bringing their costs down dramatically despite the bullshit. Most places in California have an advantage where a lot of manufacturers are very nearby. Try that in Idaho, where your delivery times will be 1-2 weeks from suppliers or clients, because they're all in California still.
You might have better luck in Las Vegas or Reno, but when the I15 gets screwed up (Which it does quite often), you're pretty much screwed. Or Mexico, in Tijuana (Huge manufacturing base booming there), if border issues don't screw you up.
Despite what people say, businesses are still coming to California, more so than they are moving out of the state. I'm not advocating that California is right in doing what it does, because I do think it's stupid, but it's not having this huge impact as some people think because of what I stated above. People for now are still willing to deal with the bullshit as the total costs balance out compared to other places. Most of the businesses you hear about leaving are usually the ones without permits and some of the crappiest equipment you could possibly imagine.
You can tell this is a hit piece and someone actually went to the trouble to dig this crap out. Who the hell reports on permit violations? Seriously, I can go to any manufacturer and find a lot of places with either no permits or violating a whole lot of regulations, yet it goes unreported or no one even cares. Why this focus on Tesla's manufacturing equipment? What next? Are they going to report that Tesla's equipment is not according to plans and the power to the place should be shut down?
In the meantime, from the sounds of this AQMD report, it sounds like Tesla should just move this operation to Mexico like every other manufacturer that requires printing or painting. AQMD's nonsense has brought absolute misery to a lot of people in California which forces them to use more inferior products to operate in California and unable to compete with other businesses out of state or in Mexico. A lot of places don't even require these type of incinerators which costs a huge amount of money, energy and there is ZERO return on them. We don't use them to generate energy (Unless you have a smart engineer design something clever to use this heat for something, which I doubt, our engineers are stupid) and they use up more precious fuel to burn all this crap.
A different graphics card that is still mediocre at best. You know what I love about Nvidia cards? Watching a movie and VDPAU freezing my entire system that I have to reboot the whole computer. I feel like I'm on Windows 98.
That's because Photoshop is just better. I can train someone to use Photoshop in 5 minutes, even people that are not computer savvy. Try to train someone to use GIMP, it'll take ages. I can't even train myself to use GIMP with that horrible UI. I mean good God, the Photoshop UI has barely changed for YEARS and it just works. GIMP has been utilizing that horrible UI for years and doesn't want to change.
That's because LibreOffice sucks as much as OpenOffice. No big deal to switch between either of them. LibreOffice just had the upper hand because it was removing all the java crap in it.
I gave up when they said GIMP is not a going to compete against Photoshop, they just want to edit gif for websites. That was years ago and I'm sure they still have the same mentality. I stopped caring for GIMP and since then, it sucks even more.
Blender on the other hand is amazingly pretty great. The community is great and hasn't been taken over by morons. Now if we could only get the Blender life, developer base and ideas to make something better than Photoshop and lightroom, I'm all for it. GIMP is definitely not it.
Really? Seem to have plenty of support with quite a lot of devices using the latest android. No need for luck or "a lot of hacking". They all work great for me.
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And worst of all, a lot of these bugs have NOT been fixed for AGES. Some of the bugs you have listed on there have been around for a good 10 years with no fix in sight. This is linux in general. Some of them more glaringly obvious than others. You can submit these bugs on the bug reporting, but it always ends up with a big discussion and ends up being marked down as not important or my favorite, "won't fix". Thus, we end up with a kind of half-assed desktop.
The worst thing I hate doing is having to look through all these posts all over the net to find solutions to a lot of these problems. So linux desktop takes me less than 5 minutes to install, but it takes me a whole week to get setup properly because I'm scouring the net for solutions to issues. Or when I update, it breaks half my fixes and I end up spending another week to find solutions due to the update breaking the previous solutions.
Diss Microsoft Windows 10 all you want, but that was the smoothest upgrade I ever did in my life for anything Microsoft. It was also the easiest install I ever did for a new PC. The desktop works, everything works. Granted I don't like all the telemetry crap and I have to literally firewall all outgoing communications now, but come on, you know Microsoft did a good thing here and it's something linux needs to strive for or we'll continue to have everything held up with glue. Linux Desktop is now the Windows 98 SE, everyone laughs at it.
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I don't think so. Android tablets with locked hardware is gaining ground and linux support for these devices is pretty abysmal to none. The one market where linux could shine is being shunned by the open source community on a grand scale. I would love to have linux on some of these devices, but there are none to be found.
What else can you buy? Currently Dell has one of the best spec lightweight notebook with linux support. All the other ones are pretty much junk except Apple's Macbook pro. The choices are starting to be very disappointing and I have no desire to move to some android tablet for my work, considering that linux support for these devices are abysmal at best. Luckily for PC's, I can still build whatever I want.
Look at the date and look at the blurred building. It's old. You'll find many streetview maps of Germany like this. But you want to know the funny part is from your link? Move up forward a bit and you see a bunch of students with a professional camera taking video or pictures of the very building that's blurred out. Ah the hypocrisy.
US schools are bureaucratic nightmares. Where as a lot of European schools just have a director and a bunch of teachers and usually much smaller with a much tightly integrated community, US schools operate like little prisons with security guards, lots of office work secretaries, counsellors, principals and vice principals, etc etc. Lets also not forget about the school board and school districts with their luxurious salaries and beautiful office buildings. Most school employees get treated better than the kids while we stuff the kids into over crowded classrooms. The kids are usually an after thought.
Me too! It's sitting on my desk not being used for months!
Stop using cloud services?
Yay spoilers, now I don't have to go see the movie.
I had the same feelings, but it's still not a bad distribution and I still recommend people to install it, either Xubuntu or Kubuntu. That installer is a breeze for anyone.
What alternative distributions have the "Just freaking works" on my hardware without having to spend all day trying to figure out why it's not working?
I'm an Arch user, but Ubuntu just seems to have things right most of the time, with release cycles, security updates, development. So they make a few mistakes, but they're willing to correct them and move on.
The Intel NUC's do have way better performance and power usage. But, the Raspberry Pi price point makes it pretty damn good as well. Depending what you're doing, making a information display would cost me in excess of $300-$400 using the NUC (You realize you have to buy memory for some of the devices?), vs just under $100 with the PI. Not only that, the PI breaks (Never had one break yet), it's pretty trivial and cheap to get a replacement. So really depends what you need. Both are pretty good.
Add to that horrible management in AMD. Sure Intel was doing some BS moves, but AMD was completely oblivious to what was going on because of their internal politics. AMD would screw things up even if they did release some ground breaking CPU or GPU. Meanwhile, all their stuff sucks up more energy than my own toaster oven.
Microsoft made a tablet people want. I don't want a tablet that's just a big glorified touch screen phone. I can write on the surface and OneNote has been an excellent note taking application for many many years. The thing also runs Windows applications just fine, especially cad software. Pretty much Microsoft has finally succeeded in making an excellent tablet by combing some of the Windows BS desktop tablet features and used it to make a nice tablet with a Windows desktop if needed. And it works pretty decently.
Nothing. Continue on as if nothing is going on. Most companies that run Windows Server run some hybrid mess of linux with windows anyways that makes no sense.
Consumers? I see all these devices now in the industrial and professional world. I had a company call me about their lines shutting down randomly. Guess what I discovered? Someone was logging into these machines remotely from another plant and sabotaging the lines just so the plant they were working at would look better in efficiency. They weren't logging into the machine directly, but they were logging into a random display device to access the machine. And then you have all these wonderful vulnerable PLC's to access because it's on the same network and since every PLC manufacturer doesn't really give a damn about security, easy to access.
Nobody cares about security until something happens. In fact, nobody even considered the possibility that someone was logging into the system and breaking the machines. Then someone like me shows up, fixes it for the day. But with no one maintaining anything, it's just a matter of time before it happens again. The infrastructure is not even setup to prevent something like that in the first place.
And then you have Teamviewer, which has now taken over as an industry standard for every new machine out there with its crappy security (Really, all I need to know is the key, easy to get by just visiting the place and playing around with the UI). Teamviewer bypasses firewalls because firewalls at 90% of businesses don't really block anything. It's like an open door to everything. What a wonderful world we live in.
I'm on Arch, 4k resolution, using an Nvidia GTX980. Nvidia driver 352.63. I would try 358.16, but that driver is broken for me and causes my 4k monitor to start going nuts no matter what configuration settings I use.
The freezing doesn't happen often, but only happens on badly encoded videos that triggers it. But when it does happen, boy is it annoying! I can login SSH and kill X, but even when I restart X, videos no longer work and instantly freeze the system again forcing me to reboot the whole system anyways.
The problem is that California has all the logistical capacity and ports in the state that drops costs down dramatically, especially when a lot of final production manufacturing is still in California. So you're still going to have a very hard time competing against a business who deals with the bullshit regulations in California when their business is next to your huge potential client and next to every other supplier or have easy access to the port for shipping, bringing their costs down dramatically despite the bullshit. Most places in California have an advantage where a lot of manufacturers are very nearby. Try that in Idaho, where your delivery times will be 1-2 weeks from suppliers or clients, because they're all in California still.
You might have better luck in Las Vegas or Reno, but when the I15 gets screwed up (Which it does quite often), you're pretty much screwed. Or Mexico, in Tijuana (Huge manufacturing base booming there), if border issues don't screw you up.
Despite what people say, businesses are still coming to California, more so than they are moving out of the state. I'm not advocating that California is right in doing what it does, because I do think it's stupid, but it's not having this huge impact as some people think because of what I stated above. People for now are still willing to deal with the bullshit as the total costs balance out compared to other places. Most of the businesses you hear about leaving are usually the ones without permits and some of the crappiest equipment you could possibly imagine.
You can tell this is a hit piece and someone actually went to the trouble to dig this crap out. Who the hell reports on permit violations? Seriously, I can go to any manufacturer and find a lot of places with either no permits or violating a whole lot of regulations, yet it goes unreported or no one even cares. Why this focus on Tesla's manufacturing equipment? What next? Are they going to report that Tesla's equipment is not according to plans and the power to the place should be shut down?
In the meantime, from the sounds of this AQMD report, it sounds like Tesla should just move this operation to Mexico like every other manufacturer that requires printing or painting. AQMD's nonsense has brought absolute misery to a lot of people in California which forces them to use more inferior products to operate in California and unable to compete with other businesses out of state or in Mexico. A lot of places don't even require these type of incinerators which costs a huge amount of money, energy and there is ZERO return on them. We don't use them to generate energy (Unless you have a smart engineer design something clever to use this heat for something, which I doubt, our engineers are stupid) and they use up more precious fuel to burn all this crap.
A different graphics card that is still mediocre at best. You know what I love about Nvidia cards? Watching a movie and VDPAU freezing my entire system that I have to reboot the whole computer. I feel like I'm on Windows 98.
That's because Photoshop is just better. I can train someone to use Photoshop in 5 minutes, even people that are not computer savvy. Try to train someone to use GIMP, it'll take ages. I can't even train myself to use GIMP with that horrible UI. I mean good God, the Photoshop UI has barely changed for YEARS and it just works. GIMP has been utilizing that horrible UI for years and doesn't want to change.
That's because LibreOffice sucks as much as OpenOffice. No big deal to switch between either of them. LibreOffice just had the upper hand because it was removing all the java crap in it.
I gave up when they said GIMP is not a going to compete against Photoshop, they just want to edit gif for websites. That was years ago and I'm sure they still have the same mentality. I stopped caring for GIMP and since then, it sucks even more.
Blender on the other hand is amazingly pretty great. The community is great and hasn't been taken over by morons. Now if we could only get the Blender life, developer base and ideas to make something better than Photoshop and lightroom, I'm all for it. GIMP is definitely not it.
No, but their money sure does contribute greatly to the science of it. From mechanical wear and tear to far safer cars that we drive today.
Really? Seem to have plenty of support with quite a lot of devices using the latest android. No need for luck or "a lot of hacking". They all work great for me.