Too incompetent? Maybe. Haven't hard of it. The point was that Linux doesn't need any maintenance with regards to drivers. My example using out of the box linux and vendor supplied drivers proves that to be false. However, lets assume your solution is legit: If there is a technology to resolve that, then WHY THE FUCK IS IT NOT ENABLED BY DEFAULT?
3 years ago I got my non-techy ex-GF to buy an MBA (2010 spec). About 12 months ago she ran out of SSD and needed help to relocate a few things to an external drive (60GB of raw photos on a 128GB SSD will do that). That is the sum total of maintenance that has been required, outside of automatic updates.
Exactly. Build quality != component spec. Anyone who has opened up a Mac or other high end hardware and compared to home built PC from newegg knows this.
Funny how my WIFI card i bought last month with Linux support on the box breaks every kernel upgrade because i need to recompile the driver from source (Ubuntu doesn't do it automatically) and had to spend 4 hours hunting over the internet for patches to the supplied source driver because it was for kernel 2.6 only. It's an Asus PCE-N53 for those playing at home.
Oh no, i've repeatedly upgraded the driver. There is no stable driver that exists. Why a flaky USB peripheral should bring down the entire machine is also an issue.
Well i know you've probably got a healthy disrespect for adobe, but to compete with photoshop in any reasonable time-frame, you're going to need that top 10% of programmers to work on the project. Assuming photoshop stays still. An infinite number of muppets is not going to cut it.
Good. Stallman is living in fantasy land. Some software is never going to be done properly by a bunch of nerds in their spare time. Games are one of these products.
Windows: because they went down the path of c++ and then c#. Linux: because the desktop environment guys are too busy trying to reimplement windows, rather than finish GNUstep.
Lol. Windows 7 regularly crashes with my USB RS232 adapter. Just today, without the adapter plugged in, it black-screened and half-rebooted (elitebook 8570p) itself for no reason. Ivy bridge hardware, hardware diagnostics are all good.
I've been running beta versions of Mavericks on my main machine since DP1. I've yet to have a crash with it.
This wasn't predicted already? X86 hardware, Xbox music, Xbox video, etc in the Windows 8.x OS, microsoft trying to converge tablet and desktop OS - no doubt the Xbox OS is.... drum roll... Windows 8.1 or a slightly modified variant of it.
Yeah, i've never actually seen RIP used outside of the lab either, other than maybe on crappy home user networks. But most of those are so brain-dead simple that no routing protocol is required. I just find it hilarious that somebody decided to write an ipv6 capable version of RIP.
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Too incompetent? Maybe. Haven't hard of it. The point was that Linux doesn't need any maintenance with regards to drivers. My example using out of the box linux and vendor supplied drivers proves that to be false. However, lets assume your solution is legit: If there is a technology to resolve that, then WHY THE FUCK IS IT NOT ENABLED BY DEFAULT?
The wired keyboard has USB. The wireless one doesn't.
Price up a PC based system including monitor with equivalent resolution, ssd caching, etc. Now find that spec in an all in one.
3 years ago I got my non-techy ex-GF to buy an MBA (2010 spec). About 12 months ago she ran out of SSD and needed help to relocate a few things to an external drive (60GB of raw photos on a 128GB SSD will do that). That is the sum total of maintenance that has been required, outside of automatic updates.
Exactly. Build quality != component spec. Anyone who has opened up a Mac or other high end hardware and compared to home built PC from newegg knows this.
Funny how my WIFI card i bought last month with Linux support on the box breaks every kernel upgrade because i need to recompile the driver from source (Ubuntu doesn't do it automatically) and had to spend 4 hours hunting over the internet for patches to the supplied source driver because it was for kernel 2.6 only. It's an Asus PCE-N53 for those playing at home.
Maybe you're not tracking it.
Oh no, i've repeatedly upgraded the driver. There is no stable driver that exists. Why a flaky USB peripheral should bring down the entire machine is also an issue.
Because, you know... funding developers on an open source project and releasing the fuits of their labor for free is all take, take, take.
It also enables free software to interface with free software.
LLVM came about for many reasons, one of which was that the GCC team would not accept patches to fix various brokenness in GCC.
Well if you're writing free software, this would be non-commercial use, right?
Well i know you've probably got a healthy disrespect for adobe, but to compete with photoshop in any reasonable time-frame, you're going to need that top 10% of programmers to work on the project. Assuming photoshop stays still. An infinite number of muppets is not going to cut it.
Good. Stallman is living in fantasy land. Some software is never going to be done properly by a bunch of nerds in their spare time. Games are one of these products.
Windows: because they went down the path of c++ and then c#. Linux: because the desktop environment guys are too busy trying to reimplement windows, rather than finish GNUstep.
This is by design. You are not an apple customer.
Objective-C is available for anything clang runs on.
Lol. Windows 7 regularly crashes with my USB RS232 adapter. Just today, without the adapter plugged in, it black-screened and half-rebooted (elitebook 8570p) itself for no reason. Ivy bridge hardware, hardware diagnostics are all good.
I've been running beta versions of Mavericks on my main machine since DP1. I've yet to have a crash with it.
This wasn't predicted already? X86 hardware, Xbox music, Xbox video, etc in the Windows 8.x OS, microsoft trying to converge tablet and desktop OS - no doubt the Xbox OS is.... drum roll... Windows 8.1 or a slightly modified variant of it.
Bahaha...
If it was BSD, sure. Most of the command line utilities and a heap of other stuff are BSD license.
Yeah, i've never actually seen RIP used outside of the lab either, other than maybe on crappy home user networks. But most of those are so brain-dead simple that no routing protocol is required. I just find it hilarious that somebody decided to write an ipv6 capable version of RIP.
Also other reasons, including the gcc team being reluctant to add/fix objective-c features to gcc.
Samba has been ditched by apple for example over GPLv3. They went out of their way to write their own SMB daemon due to the license change.
You know the image running on the Cisco 4500's Sup 7 supervisor is a variant of Linux, right?