Intel has been playing catch-up in the integrated GPU space for years. While they are getting better, they're still leaps and bound behind AMD's APU's.
That said, I'm curious where things will shake out 5 to 10 years down the line. Maybe Intel will have learned a bit about GPU's and not be so friendly with AMD.
Obama appointed Pai to the FCC. Trump appointed Pai as FCC chair, and was then confirmed by Congress. Pai just happened to be the closest Big-Telecom Stooge. If not him, it'd be another Verizon lawyer.
Every time SystemD is brought up we have these religious debates. I have yet to see anything with real substance on the merits of one Init system versus another. It always devolves into complaining about who the developer is, or how some change makes an admin feel about something. I run a box with systemD on it at work every day and haven't had any issues that weren't self inflicted. Of course, I do higher level development in Java/C/C++ and don't really need to tie into Init for any reason.
People who complain about systemd the most seem to have been using Linux for a very long time and just "don't want to change".
no, that's not it. people who have been using linux for a long time usually *know the corner-cases better*...
One could also say those people know how to work the band-aids and patches better too. Just like ATM's still use Windows XP. "I've got it working just right by tweaking these things in that way" is not a real excuse for avoiding change.
also they've done the research - looked up systemd vs other init systems on the CVE mitre databases and gone "holy fuck".
Who's "they"?. Debian has a reputation for being a distro whose primary focus is rock-solid stability. They took their time, but eventually adopted SystemD too.
... then they've looked up the systemd bug database and how pottering abruptly CLOSES LEGITIMATE BUGREPORTS and they've gone "WHAT the fuck??"
Microsoft has done this for years too. See "That's not a bug, that's an undocumented feature". Lets not confuse management of a project with the utility/effectiveness of that project. The Sega Saturn was terribly poorly marketed and suffered lots of odd development quirks, but ended up having a lot of really good games. It was a solid competitor to the Playstation.
also, they've been through the hell that was the "proprietary world"...they know what a monoculture looks like and how dangerous that is for a computing eco-system.
So the switch from a single init system - SystemV (or init system V) - to SystemD creates a monoculture? X11 has been around forever and is slowly being replaced by Wayland. Is that a monoculture as well?
in short, i have to apologise for pointing this out: they can read the danger signs far better than you can. sorry!:)
As mentioned in other comments, I'd suggest that those running the distro's are in the best place to know what warts they can live with and which should be removed. X11 was showing its age, then Wayland and Mir came along. The former is getting adopted.
Now we know how Mozilla continues to collect that $375 Mil/year from Yahoo. They've got a ReactOS box doing the real work. Actually, that answers a lot of questions about them...
Those games have a hell of a lot more complexity too, so it's no wonder it's a hard problem to solve. Resource management, army counter/order management, base creation, etc...
The NFL is hell-bent on their business model of regional lock-in to try to fill the stands. They have this crazy rationale of "if they can't see it at their local pub, they'll cough up the $$ for the tickets instead". They could fill 10,000 seats for $25 a ticket or sell 50,000 streams for $5, either way they are $250k richer. They'd lose concessions and memorabilia, but the latter could be bought online. They may even sell more since the fans saved some money by streaming.
You can't tell me that the NFL only makes money through ticket sales either, not when they charge $80+ on a jersey or $45 on a football.
Hulu on a PS3 is actually really awesome. It's a similar interface on the Fire, though it's odd that Hulu says "press the + button to add to your list", when there's no '+' button on a fire stick.
The developer is EPIC Games. You may have heard of them.. They build and license the Unreal Engine, which has been used by Gearbox for Borderlands and their Batman titles and dozens of other games, including their own Unreal Tournament. They are also former developers of the Gears of War series (until that was bought by Microsoft).
I'm not sure what the revenue stream is for Fortnite, but as a company they certainly aren't Gazillion entertainment. They make money elsewhere.
Putting pressure on congress to do the right thing is one option we have.
Net neutrality has a Storied history in the U.S. There have been assorted Congressional bills proposed, but the problems are still partisan. Republicans are still pro-business (and thus advertising, pricing, and prioritization models), while Democrats seem to see the internet as a communication tool that should be devoid of business interests.
I read somewhere that Pai was actually following the letter of the law by a Congressional bill that was passed some years prior to the Title 2 reclassification of ISP's. He sees it as the FCC overstepping its authority, which isn't necessarily wrong. What he is (probably intentionally) leaving out is the means to encourage competition and drive prices down. We have choices and competition in where we live (usually), what we drive (if we drive), where/what we eat, where we shop, etc... There are only a few areas where we don't have a choice - like public utility companies and ISPs. At least with the former any rate hikes need to be approved by the government.
I can agree with Pai in this line of thought. Net Neutrality, as written, may be impeding competition and keeping prices artificially high. Pai has also openly said he wants to prevent municipal broadband by removing state's ability to create their own laws.
I could back him if he was actively encouraging competition, be it by placing ISPs into common carrier status, or treating internet infrastructure as a utility - like municipal broadband or competitive contracts like your local power company(ies). Instead we get the status quo, one or two providers that can collude their prices for a majority of the U.S. with no incentive to compete.
Video game-based movies are like any other movie... quality varies based on the source material, budget, and talent involved.
Not just the source material, but adherence to the source material. The movie adaptations of games that make it are the ones that have a solid story to begin with.
Mortal Kombat was good because they kept true to the games premise - a tournament on a remote island hosted by a crazy sorcerer bent on stealing souls. Tomb Raider actually felt a lot like "female Indiana Jones" which is more or less what the games are. As for Mario Bros: Goombas are not 7 feet tall and 300+ pounds, Bowser is reptilian, and the Mushroom Kingdom is not the neon slums of New York.
One thing that Microsoft has done very well is Active Directory. Sure, you can run LDAP/Kerberos/SMB(or whatever shared filesystem you prefer)/(whatever user management you prefer) on Linux, but you are stuck configuring and integrating those yourself. Active Directory has all those bundled up in a single place with a reasonable UI. You can even tie in Exchange so email is nicely integrated into your user configuration and security settings. It's even possible to use Linux workstations with an Active Directory backbone, though I'm not sure if that's any less pain than going pure Linux.
Linux does have issues with software, but the network and server ease of use has a long way to go too.
Reminds me of years ago living in Albuquerque there was a water shortage and so the city enacted some efforts to curb use. Things like not washing your car in the middle of a hot day, having allocated watering days and times, and fining those that used more than their fair share.
It wasn't two weeks later that headlines came out fingering upper city officials and celebrities using 10x the water of others. The fees meant absolutely nothing to them since they were wealthy enough to not care. A $100 fine would ruin some people, be was shrugged off by others.
Now if those same people were facing jail time, or a much steeper penalty (thousands or tens of thousands) for repeated offenses, then we might see some changes being made.
I'm curious what the actual run-down of costs are.
If we assume $300 for BOM, then that's $700 for R&D, Salaries, Prototypes, Offices, etc...
Assuming they sell 200 million of them, we are talking $140 billion. Tim Cook's salary is $2m, then another $8m in incentives, so we'll say $10m. We know that not everyone in Cupertino is making that kind of money, and they don't have 1,400 Tim Cook's on payroll. Where exactly is that line between "covering costs", "making profit", and "Scrooge McDuck greedy"?
Apple could probably charge $400 and still turn an absurd profit just by quantity. At that price, they'd probably sell a lot more than 200 million worldwide.
a $999 PC has cost subsidized by bundled software. Microsoft drops the price of their OS for OEM's to spread their software more (OEM's paid something like $90, the rest of us paid $150 or more for XP). Not to mention all the crapware that's bundled in. Software vendors pay to put that crapware on.
You don't see near the same level of crap or 3rd party stuff on iOS. Samsung phones have their own crap, so no savings there either.
As a Gov purchase card holder in a past life, I have first-hand experience with just how shitty GSA is. My group needed a handful of licenses for Adobe Acrobat Pro. NewEgg had them for ~$90, as did Amazon and a couple others. I was forced to buy each copy for $150 from a GSA-authorized vendor. I could have saved the government $500+ with that one purchase, but instead they bound my hands.
The gov won't be giving *every* purchase to Amazon since every purchase the gov makes must be done via a competition with at least 3 vendors (I imagine Amazon, Wal-Mart and one other, depending on the item). Here's hoping Amazon fixes a couple of the problems with GSA Advantage - It's a terrible interface, prices are stupidly high, dozens (or hundreds) of duplicate items, and absurdly slow turn-around times.
That's exactly why Amazon has those lockers damned near everywhere. Those are actually really handy and pretty quick. Instead of using "Prime Now", we did a Prime delivery to a locker and still had same-day delivery.
The lockers use a pin/QR Code tied to the person doing the order. You can be in and out in a couple minutes. I counted a dozen at gas stations within about 5 minutes of my house. I'd be willing to take 10-15 minutes to get a package instead of have a stranger in my house.
The interesting part of speech is that it evolves. There's already a prominent double standard today - Use of the 'N' word (you know which one) by anyone other than someone of African descent is considered hate speech. In fact, it was once a word used solely for demeaning slaves, a way to consider them as less than human. Today it is (apparently?) okay for those of African descent to use the word to refer to each other. You'll see it plastered all over Twitter, in song lyrics, and has become part of the daily lexicon for some people.
There is nothing "demonstrably dangerous or illegal" about a single word, but the connotation and history of that word is what gets folks fired up. My civics class had a pretty simple definition: "My rights end where yours begin."
These large companies are consolidating power year after year. I'm tired of being tracked, sold, marketed, whatever.
The problem is the pursuit of the almighty dollar. Congress is the only group that can change the laws about lobbying, and you can be damned sure they like having that steady stream of money from corporations. The only way to break the cycle is for limits on lobbying and "campaign contributions" to be enacted such that no corporation is able to contribute more than any individual. Until my every constituents voice is just as loud as Google/Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Microsoft, they will only listen to those with the most money.
At this point the best we can do is try to contain and control Trump... Hopefully people in the US government and military would refuse if he did...
Unfortunately Trump is the Command-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces. If he orders a nuclear strike, there will be a nuclear strike. The United States is NOT a first-strike country as a matter of policy, but that doesn't stop the President from ordering a strike and starting a global shit-fest. The soldiers on the ground *could* refuse to carry-out the order, but those folks would be disobeying a lawful order - I'd have to refer to the UCMJ to see what they would be up against.
The other branches of government are powerless to stop it. Congress can declare war, but they can't direct the POTUS how, when, and where to employ troops or weapons. SCOTUS can only act after-the-fact. By then the damage to the other guy(s) and our image worldwide will have already been done.
Everything about GNOME Shell is missing, incomplete or inconvenient, by design.... I have to use tweak tool to enable some features that GNOME devs think (for some stupid reason) are not needed. So how's that good f or average user with little Linux experience?... Evolution? Oh please, what a joke.
You answered your own question. GNOME Shell is intended to be simple enough for an average, non-computer-savvy, person to be able to pick up and use. I'd say it does fairly well there
What is the target audience for GNOME? Linux hardcore users like me? I don't need the idiotic simplicity, I need a functional customizable, beautiful desktop. Users with little PC or Linux knowledge? I bet they'll run away from it first hour of use. With the dynamic desktops and lack of minimize button.
One of the biggest complaints lobbed at Linux is the "using the command line..." answers on most forums. If I can get to my browser/email/calculator/word processor in a couple clicks. Job done. Not everybody needs or wants to customize every single pixel on their screen. Use KDE for that.
Now, suppose they learned somehow about extensions.gnome.org. They go there and try to install some - NO. You need first the browser extension. Alright, got it. Can be proceed? NO. You need some bullshit crap called chrome-shell which installation instructions far from obvious for average user.
Funny, it works with Firefox (the default browser on Ubuntu) without installing extensions. The same users that don't care to customize probably won't know or care about the difference between Firefox and Chrome.
It's fucking pathetic. I am Ubuntu user for 12 years, quite loved Unity (despite the bugs and rough edges it's perfectly usable desktop), now switched to Kununtu and never looked back. It's amazing, far more into the Linux Desktop 2017 than any GNOME disaster would ever be.
I'm still undecided about my desktop environment. I like how Gnome gets out of the way and lets me work - though yes, I do need some extensions from the repos to get look/feel right for me. I like the customizability of KDE, but it's bloated and sometimes slows things down - Why are there three places to navigate to to change your desktop theme? Shouldn't I be able to change my window decoration, interface buttons, and task bar all in the same place?. I never liked Unity. Cinnamon is what I end up using at work, and it works fairly well without being in the way or slowing me down. However I find myself using Gnome at home on both my desktop and laptop.
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Intel has been playing catch-up in the integrated GPU space for years. While they are getting better, they're still leaps and bound behind AMD's APU's.
That said, I'm curious where things will shake out 5 to 10 years down the line. Maybe Intel will have learned a bit about GPU's and not be so friendly with AMD.
Obama appointed Pai to the FCC. Trump appointed Pai as FCC chair, and was then confirmed by Congress. Pai just happened to be the closest Big-Telecom Stooge. If not him, it'd be another Verizon lawyer.
I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.
Every time SystemD is brought up we have these religious debates. I have yet to see anything with real substance on the merits of one Init system versus another. It always devolves into complaining about who the developer is, or how some change makes an admin feel about something. I run a box with systemD on it at work every day and haven't had any issues that weren't self inflicted. Of course, I do higher level development in Java/C/C++ and don't really need to tie into Init for any reason.
People who complain about systemd the most seem to have been using Linux for a very long time and just "don't want to change".
no, that's not it. people who have been using linux for a long time usually *know the corner-cases better*...
One could also say those people know how to work the band-aids and patches better too. Just like ATM's still use Windows XP. "I've got it working just right by tweaking these things in that way" is not a real excuse for avoiding change.
also they've done the research - looked up systemd vs other init systems on the CVE mitre databases and gone "holy fuck".
Who's "they"?. Debian has a reputation for being a distro whose primary focus is rock-solid stability. They took their time, but eventually adopted SystemD too.
... then they've looked up the systemd bug database and how pottering abruptly CLOSES LEGITIMATE BUGREPORTS and they've gone "WHAT the fuck??"
Microsoft has done this for years too. See "That's not a bug, that's an undocumented feature". Lets not confuse management of a project with the utility/effectiveness of that project. The Sega Saturn was terribly poorly marketed and suffered lots of odd development quirks, but ended up having a lot of really good games. It was a solid competitor to the Playstation.
also, they've been through the hell that was the "proprietary world"...they know what a monoculture looks like and how dangerous that is for a computing eco-system.
So the switch from a single init system - SystemV (or init system V) - to SystemD creates a monoculture? X11 has been around forever and is slowly being replaced by Wayland. Is that a monoculture as well?
in short, i have to apologise for pointing this out: they can read the danger signs far better than you can. sorry! :)
As mentioned in other comments, I'd suggest that those running the distro's are in the best place to know what warts they can live with and which should be removed. X11 was showing its age, then Wayland and Mir came along. The former is getting adopted.
Now we know how Mozilla continues to collect that $375 Mil/year from Yahoo. They've got a ReactOS box doing the real work. Actually, that answers a lot of questions about them...
They have. Facebook too.
Those games have a hell of a lot more complexity too, so it's no wonder it's a hard problem to solve. Resource management, army counter/order management, base creation, etc...
The NFL is hell-bent on their business model of regional lock-in to try to fill the stands. They have this crazy rationale of "if they can't see it at their local pub, they'll cough up the $$ for the tickets instead". They could fill 10,000 seats for $25 a ticket or sell 50,000 streams for $5, either way they are $250k richer. They'd lose concessions and memorabilia, but the latter could be bought online. They may even sell more since the fans saved some money by streaming.
You can't tell me that the NFL only makes money through ticket sales either, not when they charge $80+ on a jersey or $45 on a football.
Hulu on a PS3 is actually really awesome. It's a similar interface on the Fire, though it's odd that Hulu says "press the + button to add to your list", when there's no '+' button on a fire stick.
The developer is EPIC Games. You may have heard of them.. They build and license the Unreal Engine, which has been used by Gearbox for Borderlands and their Batman titles and dozens of other games, including their own Unreal Tournament. They are also former developers of the Gears of War series (until that was bought by Microsoft).
I'm not sure what the revenue stream is for Fortnite, but as a company they certainly aren't Gazillion entertainment. They make money elsewhere.
Putting pressure on congress to do the right thing is one option we have.
Net neutrality has a Storied history in the U.S. There have been assorted Congressional bills proposed, but the problems are still partisan. Republicans are still pro-business (and thus advertising, pricing, and prioritization models), while Democrats seem to see the internet as a communication tool that should be devoid of business interests.
I read somewhere that Pai was actually following the letter of the law by a Congressional bill that was passed some years prior to the Title 2 reclassification of ISP's. He sees it as the FCC overstepping its authority, which isn't necessarily wrong. What he is (probably intentionally) leaving out is the means to encourage competition and drive prices down. We have choices and competition in where we live (usually), what we drive (if we drive), where/what we eat, where we shop, etc... There are only a few areas where we don't have a choice - like public utility companies and ISPs. At least with the former any rate hikes need to be approved by the government.
I can agree with Pai in this line of thought. Net Neutrality, as written, may be impeding competition and keeping prices artificially high. Pai has also openly said he wants to prevent municipal broadband by removing state's ability to create their own laws.
I could back him if he was actively encouraging competition, be it by placing ISPs into common carrier status, or treating internet infrastructure as a utility - like municipal broadband or competitive contracts like your local power company(ies). Instead we get the status quo, one or two providers that can collude their prices for a majority of the U.S. with no incentive to compete.
Video game-based movies are like any other movie... quality varies based on the source material, budget, and talent involved.
Not just the source material, but adherence to the source material. The movie adaptations of games that make it are the ones that have a solid story to begin with.
Mortal Kombat was good because they kept true to the games premise - a tournament on a remote island hosted by a crazy sorcerer bent on stealing souls. Tomb Raider actually felt a lot like "female Indiana Jones" which is more or less what the games are. As for Mario Bros: Goombas are not 7 feet tall and 300+ pounds, Bowser is reptilian, and the Mushroom Kingdom is not the neon slums of New York.
One thing that Microsoft has done very well is Active Directory. Sure, you can run LDAP/Kerberos/SMB(or whatever shared filesystem you prefer)/(whatever user management you prefer) on Linux, but you are stuck configuring and integrating those yourself. Active Directory has all those bundled up in a single place with a reasonable UI. You can even tie in Exchange so email is nicely integrated into your user configuration and security settings. It's even possible to use Linux workstations with an Active Directory backbone, though I'm not sure if that's any less pain than going pure Linux.
Linux does have issues with software, but the network and server ease of use has a long way to go too.
Reminds me of years ago living in Albuquerque there was a water shortage and so the city enacted some efforts to curb use. Things like not washing your car in the middle of a hot day, having allocated watering days and times, and fining those that used more than their fair share.
It wasn't two weeks later that headlines came out fingering upper city officials and celebrities using 10x the water of others. The fees meant absolutely nothing to them since they were wealthy enough to not care. A $100 fine would ruin some people, be was shrugged off by others.
Now if those same people were facing jail time, or a much steeper penalty (thousands or tens of thousands) for repeated offenses, then we might see some changes being made.
I'm curious what the actual run-down of costs are.
If we assume $300 for BOM, then that's $700 for R&D, Salaries, Prototypes, Offices, etc...
Assuming they sell 200 million of them, we are talking $140 billion. Tim Cook's salary is $2m, then another $8m in incentives, so we'll say $10m. We know that not everyone in Cupertino is making that kind of money, and they don't have 1,400 Tim Cook's on payroll. Where exactly is that line between "covering costs", "making profit", and "Scrooge McDuck greedy"?
Apple could probably charge $400 and still turn an absurd profit just by quantity. At that price, they'd probably sell a lot more than 200 million worldwide.
a $999 PC has cost subsidized by bundled software. Microsoft drops the price of their OS for OEM's to spread their software more (OEM's paid something like $90, the rest of us paid $150 or more for XP). Not to mention all the crapware that's bundled in. Software vendors pay to put that crapware on.
You don't see near the same level of crap or 3rd party stuff on iOS. Samsung phones have their own crap, so no savings there either.
As a Gov purchase card holder in a past life, I have first-hand experience with just how shitty GSA is. My group needed a handful of licenses for Adobe Acrobat Pro. NewEgg had them for ~$90, as did Amazon and a couple others. I was forced to buy each copy for $150 from a GSA-authorized vendor. I could have saved the government $500+ with that one purchase, but instead they bound my hands.
The gov won't be giving *every* purchase to Amazon since every purchase the gov makes must be done via a competition with at least 3 vendors (I imagine Amazon, Wal-Mart and one other, depending on the item). Here's hoping Amazon fixes a couple of the problems with GSA Advantage - It's a terrible interface, prices are stupidly high, dozens (or hundreds) of duplicate items, and absurdly slow turn-around times.
No "Yo Dawg?"
AC, I am disappoint.
That's exactly why Amazon has those lockers damned near everywhere. Those are actually really handy and pretty quick. Instead of using "Prime Now", we did a Prime delivery to a locker and still had same-day delivery.
The lockers use a pin/QR Code tied to the person doing the order. You can be in and out in a couple minutes. I counted a dozen at gas stations within about 5 minutes of my house. I'd be willing to take 10-15 minutes to get a package instead of have a stranger in my house.
The interesting part of speech is that it evolves. There's already a prominent double standard today - Use of the 'N' word (you know which one) by anyone other than someone of African descent is considered hate speech. In fact, it was once a word used solely for demeaning slaves, a way to consider them as less than human. Today it is (apparently?) okay for those of African descent to use the word to refer to each other. You'll see it plastered all over Twitter, in song lyrics, and has become part of the daily lexicon for some people.
There is nothing "demonstrably dangerous or illegal" about a single word, but the connotation and history of that word is what gets folks fired up. My civics class had a pretty simple definition: "My rights end where yours begin."
These large companies are consolidating power year after year. I'm tired of being tracked, sold, marketed, whatever.
The problem is the pursuit of the almighty dollar. Congress is the only group that can change the laws about lobbying, and you can be damned sure they like having that steady stream of money from corporations. The only way to break the cycle is for limits on lobbying and "campaign contributions" to be enacted such that no corporation is able to contribute more than any individual. Until my every constituents voice is just as loud as Google/Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Microsoft, they will only listen to those with the most money.
Andy Richter was even more confused
At this point the best we can do is try to contain and control Trump ... Hopefully people in the US government and military would refuse if he did...
Unfortunately Trump is the Command-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces. If he orders a nuclear strike, there will be a nuclear strike. The United States is NOT a first-strike country as a matter of policy, but that doesn't stop the President from ordering a strike and starting a global shit-fest. The soldiers on the ground *could* refuse to carry-out the order, but those folks would be disobeying a lawful order - I'd have to refer to the UCMJ to see what they would be up against.
The other branches of government are powerless to stop it. Congress can declare war, but they can't direct the POTUS how, when, and where to employ troops or weapons. SCOTUS can only act after-the-fact. By then the damage to the other guy(s) and our image worldwide will have already been done.
No... It's for drawing genitalia.
Everything about GNOME Shell is missing, incomplete or inconvenient, by design. ... I have to use tweak tool to enable some features that GNOME devs think (for some stupid reason) are not needed. So how's that good f or average user with little Linux experience? ... Evolution? Oh please, what a joke.
You answered your own question. GNOME Shell is intended to be simple enough for an average, non-computer-savvy, person to be able to pick up and use. I'd say it does fairly well there
What is the target audience for GNOME? Linux hardcore users like me? I don't need the idiotic simplicity, I need a functional customizable, beautiful desktop. Users with little PC or Linux knowledge? I bet they'll run away from it first hour of use. With the dynamic desktops and lack of minimize button.
One of the biggest complaints lobbed at Linux is the "using the command line..." answers on most forums. If I can get to my browser/email/calculator/word processor in a couple clicks. Job done. Not everybody needs or wants to customize every single pixel on their screen. Use KDE for that.
Now, suppose they learned somehow about extensions.gnome.org. They go there and try to install some - NO. You need first the browser extension. Alright, got it. Can be proceed? NO. You need some bullshit crap called chrome-shell which installation instructions far from obvious for average user.
Funny, it works with Firefox (the default browser on Ubuntu) without installing extensions. The same users that don't care to customize probably won't know or care about the difference between Firefox and Chrome.
It's fucking pathetic. I am Ubuntu user for 12 years, quite loved Unity (despite the bugs and rough edges it's perfectly usable desktop), now switched to Kununtu and never looked back. It's amazing, far more into the Linux Desktop 2017 than any GNOME disaster would ever be.
I'm still undecided about my desktop environment. I like how Gnome gets out of the way and lets me work - though yes, I do need some extensions from the repos to get look/feel right for me. I like the customizability of KDE, but it's bloated and sometimes slows things down - Why are there three places to navigate to to change your desktop theme? Shouldn't I be able to change my window decoration, interface buttons, and task bar all in the same place?. I never liked Unity. Cinnamon is what I end up using at work, and it works fairly well without being in the way or slowing me down. However I find myself using Gnome at home on both my desktop and laptop.