People don't consider it an issue because they lack imagination.
If you have "some file" that happens to be someone else's intellectual property then all it takes is one lone jerk to decide to accuse you of pirating that "some file".
All it takes is one abusive or ambitious beaurocrat at any level.
I have a library of 7000+ videos. Plex doesn't handle that so well.
It's a pretty bloated program. Although it's pretty good for dealing with those mobile devices that can't fend for themselves. It's not something I would use for real HTPCs.
The thing about backups is that this means that you need to have least 2 of everything you are doing. At that point, things that are expensive become REALLY expensive and some of the more advanced features of the more expensive solutions become moot.
1 Drobo becomes 2 Drobos or just 2 software arrays for far less money. Each array may have less sophisticated features but since you have two of them, it doesn't matter so much.
...you just have a fileshare. Create two if you want to be fancy. One is read only and is a media horde and the other is a scratch and play area that everyone in the house can use.
If good design is functional then that eliminates recent Apple products immediately. We still have this cult of personality running amok despite the fact that the relevant tyrant is dead.
I agree with the assesment that this is yet another free advertisement for Apple Corporation masquerading as news.
I like carriers as much as the next guy (or 5 of the next guys). However, you've got to put things into perspective and know when enough is enough. We have entire classes of ships that are too small for us to consider carriers but would be considered so by any other Navy on the planet.
This article has a nice picture that puts things in perspective.
It doesn't matter if your GPU is allegedly powerful enough if no one thinks it can run their game. The installer will just say "Sorry Charlie" and that will be the end of your gaming experience.
I have a Dell office PC that sits on the desk and would be very noticable if it were your classic noisy PC. Surprisingly, it is not your classic noisy PC. It's even small enough that it could be an HTPC. It's not Mac Mini sized but it's still rather small in comparison to your "classic PC".
If it weren't sitting right there on the desk next to the monitor, you wouldn't know it was even there.
Tech evolves.
Even the mediocre stuff gets smaller, quieter, and less power hungry.
> why don't you first convince Nvidia to make their drivers install the first time without issue. > > On ubuntu, there are 5 different options for installing.
Odd then that I have never been confronted by them. You just sound like some troll that only wants to find some way for things to fail without ever consider how REAL PEOPLE use things.
I have used nvidia cards from the 5x00 to the 6x0 series on pretty much every version of Ubuntu that's ever existed and haven't ever experienced the kind of nonsense you are describing.
The way they work on Ubuntu, they are the responsibility of Canonical. Why are you trying to blame Nvidia? You sound like you've never actually touched Ubuntu before.
Wireless is an inherently problematic technology. Even when your PC peripherals works as intended, you can still have problems. These include things like crap performance and crap security.
Trying to point the finger at Linux just obscures the reality that the entire area is a total mess.
So you want your neighbors to be able to hack you and you want to have 1% performance? You just have no taste to begin with.
Linux isn't a gaming platform because it's not shoved down everyone throats despite it's flaws.
Windows isn't any bed of roses either. The article should have made that much obvious. You wouldn't even have this opportunity to troll if someone didn't think Windows gaming is a mess.
Personally, I would just drop all of the various DRM crap. A lot of bugs would likely go away on their own past that ponit.
In most cases, there's no good reason that hardware manufacturers can't publish documentation and let the community fend for itself. Something that "just needs to work for a few years" is really not good enough.
Thunderbolt is not a great example for your screed. It's subject to very limited availability. Even if I were a happy Apple user, I would have trouble getting it in my preferred form factor (a real PC).
On the other hand, Linux does get support for serious peripherals and has for quite awhile things. Stuff like fiber channel and infiniband are well supported in Linux already.
Linux users will likely be experimenting with Thunderbolt before it's widely used (assuming it is ever widely used) on PCs.
We've got quite an incompetent box builder here. Not only is he experiencing all sorts of rather bizarre problems. He also didn't bother to put any expansion options into this custom build of his.
You really have to go out of your way to avoid having some sort of expansion card available. Even low profile boards have expansion cards on them.
An unsupported non-exotic wired network controller just sounds plain odd. Linux has supported wired NICs very well for a very long time and even come with support for rather exotic high speed network interfaces.
Nonsense. A number of people have noted that various Asus and Gigabyte boards are quite well supported. They have also provided 3rd party sources. I have a couple of Gigabyte boards of my own that I'm very satisfied with.
You might have to do a little homework first but that's hardly a great burden considering that you're obviously building a machine from PARTS.
This whole thing boils down to "I am shopping for motherboards but I am a helpless ninny".
Ready made systems are specifically marketed for people that are unwilling or unable to do the modern equivalent of cracking open a magazine like Consumer Reports.
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People don't consider it an issue because they lack imagination.
If you have "some file" that happens to be someone else's intellectual property then all it takes is one lone jerk to decide to accuse you of pirating that "some file".
All it takes is one abusive or ambitious beaurocrat at any level.
THERE IS NO LICENSE.
This is just pro-corporate bullshit propaganda for the unwary.
You own a copy. You have a right to use it.
I have a library of 7000+ videos. Plex doesn't handle that so well.
It's a pretty bloated program. Although it's pretty good for dealing with those mobile devices that can't fend for themselves. It's not something I would use for real HTPCs.
The thing about backups is that this means that you need to have least 2 of everything you are doing. At that point, things that are expensive become REALLY expensive and some of the more advanced features of the more expensive solutions become moot.
1 Drobo becomes 2 Drobos or just 2 software arrays for far less money. Each array may have less sophisticated features but since you have two of them, it doesn't matter so much.
...you just have a fileshare. Create two if you want to be fancy. One is read only and is a media horde and the other is a scratch and play area that everyone in the house can use.
Use any tech you want. Use any OS you want.
Just create two samba shares and have at it.
If good design is functional then that eliminates recent Apple products immediately. We still have this cult of personality running amok despite the fact that the relevant tyrant is dead.
I agree with the assesment that this is yet another free advertisement for Apple Corporation masquerading as news.
I like carriers as much as the next guy (or 5 of the next guys). However, you've got to put things into perspective and know when enough is enough. We have entire classes of ships that are too small for us to consider carriers but would be considered so by any other Navy on the planet.
This article has a nice picture that puts things in perspective.
http://hgworld.blogspot.com/2011/08/voices-on-grand-strategy-or-lack-there.html
Perhaps we can do a swap with England.
....and support?
It doesn't matter if your GPU is allegedly powerful enough if no one thinks it can run their game. The installer will just say "Sorry Charlie" and that will be the end of your gaming experience.
Been there. Done that.
I have a Dell office PC that sits on the desk and would be very noticable if it were your classic noisy PC. Surprisingly, it is not your classic noisy PC. It's even small enough that it could be an HTPC. It's not Mac Mini sized but it's still rather small in comparison to your "classic PC".
If it weren't sitting right there on the desk next to the monitor, you wouldn't know it was even there.
Tech evolves.
Even the mediocre stuff gets smaller, quieter, and less power hungry.
There are newer drivers in the PPAs.
Although if you are running a newer (supported by Valve) version of Ubuntu then you shouldn't have to worry about those.
> why don't you first convince Nvidia to make their drivers install the first time without issue.
>
> On ubuntu, there are 5 different options for installing.
Odd then that I have never been confronted by them. You just sound like some troll that only wants to find some way for things to fail without ever consider how REAL PEOPLE use things.
I have used nvidia cards from the 5x00 to the 6x0 series on pretty much every version of Ubuntu that's ever existed and haven't ever experienced the kind of nonsense you are describing.
The way they work on Ubuntu, they are the responsibility of Canonical. Why are you trying to blame Nvidia? You sound like you've never actually touched Ubuntu before.
Wireless is an inherently problematic technology. Even when your PC peripherals works as intended, you can still have problems. These include things like crap performance and crap security.
Trying to point the finger at Linux just obscures the reality that the entire area is a total mess.
So you want your neighbors to be able to hack you and you want to have 1% performance? You just have no taste to begin with.
Linux isn't a gaming platform because it's not shoved down everyone throats despite it's flaws.
Windows isn't any bed of roses either. The article should have made that much obvious. You wouldn't even have this opportunity to troll if someone didn't think Windows gaming is a mess.
Personally, I would just drop all of the various DRM crap. A lot of bugs would likely go away on their own past that ponit.
That's what PPAs are for.
You can be as close to the bleeding edge as you want to be and you don't even have to leave the comfort of the package manager.
That's what you get when your package manager is a toolbox and not a walled garden.
Even a libertarian can acknowledge the fact that you don't want Crassus Maximus as your fire chief.
300K per year?
Have you ever actually seen an annual social security statement?
I suspect not.
In most cases, there's no good reason that hardware manufacturers can't publish documentation and let the community fend for itself. Something that "just needs to work for a few years" is really not good enough.
Thunderbolt is not a great example for your screed. It's subject to very limited availability. Even if I were a happy Apple user, I would have trouble getting it in my preferred form factor (a real PC).
On the other hand, Linux does get support for serious peripherals and has for quite awhile things. Stuff like fiber channel and infiniband are well supported in Linux already.
Linux users will likely be experimenting with Thunderbolt before it's widely used (assuming it is ever widely used) on PCs.
The first hit for that + Linux on Google is a pdf document at the Asus site that seems to indicate what boards are and are not supported by Linux.
...the plot thickens.
We've got quite an incompetent box builder here. Not only is he experiencing all sorts of rather bizarre problems. He also didn't bother to put any expansion options into this custom build of his.
You really have to go out of your way to avoid having some sort of expansion card available. Even low profile boards have expansion cards on them.
An unsupported non-exotic wired network controller just sounds plain odd. Linux has supported wired NICs very well for a very long time and even come with support for rather exotic high speed network interfaces.
Alternatively, you could just use a $10 PCI card.
Nonsense. A number of people have noted that various Asus and Gigabyte boards are quite well supported. They have also provided 3rd party sources. I have a couple of Gigabyte boards of my own that I'm very satisfied with.
You might have to do a little homework first but that's hardly a great burden considering that you're obviously building a machine from PARTS.
This whole thing boils down to "I am shopping for motherboards but I am a helpless ninny".
Ready made systems are specifically marketed for people that are unwilling or unable to do the modern equivalent of cracking open a magazine like Consumer Reports.
They will provide warranty support for hardware issues.
Been there. Done that.
They were not in the least bit phased by the fact that my machine was running Linux.
So? It's not the 1860's.
You simply don't need to be held hostage by an antebellum mentality here in the 21st century.
Or as the Romans put it: In vino veritas.
...or just buy from a Linux vendor.