If you ignore the telemetry slurping, which has been back ported to 7 anyway 10 is ok. I think its seriously ugly but that is a personal preference. Like you I also hate the boxes in the start menu but I rarely hit the start menu in windows as I only use it for games and I run steam so its a non issue. Outside of that photoshop gets an icon on the desktop.
As for games DirectX 11.3 / 12 is probably the reason to move.
That just isn't true. I like gigabyte motherboards just because and every single one of those works out of the box on linux mint. Of those the vast majority won't work without a driver disk on windows 7 or 8. I only have 1 win10 install and it did work out of the box.
Yes it does. If you were to try Linux Mint MP3s will play out of the box, on the assumption you download the international version. Due to legal issues the USA version has mp3 playback removed in the default install, but can be added with 3 clicks after install. The part that is removed is the codec to allow MP3 playback.
At first boot it will be using the opensource drivers for your video card but a box will pop up saying "proprietary drivers are available for some of your hardware" it will list all of them and ask you if you want to install them or not. Hit yes and your machine will install the nVidia / amd drivers and reboot once. From there you are done. I haven't run into any media that won't play on a default install, it comes with LibreOffice which will do 99% of what people use MSOffice for, firefox, DVD burning software, audio recording software and image editing software.
There is always the possibility that you may have an edge case with your hardware that may cause you issues. However I haven't run into any other those in the past 5 years. I am running Mint on Dell latitudes, E6420 i7-2640m, NVS 4200m graphics, as their primary O/S, as well as multiple AMD processor (x2, x4 & x6 AM3 machines) on gigabyte boards with Nvidia graphics. I also have 3 Atom based machines with a mixture of Nvidia Ion and AMD Radeon cards that run without any hitch, including wireless, and ethernet. These are Shuttle XS35 machines and an ASUS EEbox.
All of these machines boot off the live cds with all hardware working. No hacks, grub parameters, hacking, compiling of drivers, downloading of anything weird, touching terminal or anything else required.
I have also installed mint on my MIL's crappy HP laptop which is an AMD Radeon and it worked perfectly. I can't remember any more of its specs though.
Pulling off a UBI or printing the money to fund it rather than raising it via taxes?
There is nothing stopping any country from implementing a basic income stream if their tax take can handle it. I would suggest that the Scandinavian countries are the ones that will have the easiest time of it as it is a relatively small step for them given their higher tax rates and higher social security contributions.
The guy stuck a gun in someone's face and demanded items from them on the implied threat that if they didn't cooperate he would shoot them. If someone is willing to do that for a couple of chicken wings and a sandwich they are clearly desperate and the next step to shooting a person is not a great leap.
As such I would suggest he does present a clear and present danger to the community.
I also think this is an interesting snapshot of life in America. Here people are concerned about the use of stinray to catch an armed criminal. If this has occurred in Australia the streets around would have been in lock down, a chopper would have been in the air and people would be inviting police to do a door to door search. And it's not because Australians are under the thumb, we just see firearms crime as really really really really serious and we don't hate our police force. I mean genuinely, our police force will have random dance offs with nightclub goers. Sure no one likes being pulled over by the cops, and there are plenty who hate them and call them pigs, but it doesn't appear to be the same as in the US.
While you may feel stitched up about their response I don't believe the reality is what you think it is. Identify theft is likely to cover multiple jurisdictions and hence fall under a larger organisation like the FBI. Your local police have neither the resources or the skills to track that type of crime, so they do what they are meant to, they document the offence and the details and it will get slurped by the FBI or whoever is looking after that type of case and it will be data matched and investigated by them.
With an armed hold up, you have someone who is willing to threaten someone with a weapon for a small return. The logical step is that that same person is also willing to harm someone for a small return. They are much more geographically restricted and pose a clear and present danger to the wider community. You also know that there will be no long term record trail, such as that created by identity fraud, so you have a very small window to successfully catch them.
Yeah pretty sure that was it. It was a long time ago that I read it though. I've also got in my head Jeremy Clarkson saying something similar so I could have them blended.
Thats the one. Sorry, phonetic spelling is bad. It used to be the French capital town but then the Mississippi changed course as they pulled the logs out and it got left on a siding.
Some context, this is what my local news rag is printing "The anointing of a presidential nominee ought be a time for bells and whistles, but as Indiana's Republican voters blessed Donald Trump on Tuesday, the nominee's ascent serves only to underscore the descent of a once-great political party.
Texas senator Ted Cruz acknowledged that his crushing defeat had wider implications than for Indiana alone – with just half of the vote counted, Cruz announced he was abandoning his run for the White House, effectively handing the nomination to Trump."
Well as I said I'm not in the US so I'm basing things on what I read in the popular press. From where I sit Sanders and Clinton seem to represent two parts of the same party, and while lots may not like her personally I don't get the impression that there is a do anything to stop her movement.
The same popular press certainly makes representations that there are significant sections of the republican party who will do anything to stop trump.
I don't follow.... You would expect two candidates for the same party to get %s of the vote. By splitting I mean I don't think I have heard any in the Democrat party saying "We have to stop Hillary at all costs!"
She may be those things or not. But from where I sit she doesn't seem to be splitting the democratic party. Trump on the other hand seemed to have major republican figures publicly attacking him.
I'm not in the US so all I get are news paper reports.
Is it possible for trump to win the presidency? From the outside he looks incredibly divisive even in his own party, but are there enough disenfranchised people that would jump on his band wagon to get over the line?
We had a similar muppet in Australia called Clive Palmer who managed to get elected to our house of reps despite all the press saying he didn't stand a chance.
Yeah right. I say this as someone who rides performance motorcycles for fun and hence understand the enjoyment of driving. If I could get in a car every day and have it drive me to work while I was free to do work you couldn't sign me up fast enough.
Because self driving cars will be more predictable and more easily controlled, hence allowing a greater density of traffic to travel on the same infrastructure. An individual trip may be slower but the total network will be significantly better.
The ones that you have highlighted are definitely worthy of making the list. But most of the others are not. Colour television yes, but why the Sony TV which came out 14 years after colour tv was released.
If you want to go small electronic item, the home wifi router should be in that list long before lots of other things.
I feel like my brain just got dumber reading that list. The Wii? Fit bit? Oculus rift? Nest Thermostat? Roku Netflixs?
None of those things should even make the top 10,000 let alone the top 50. Initially I thought they were limiting it to post 1970s stuff and then they throw in an 1850s record player.
Netflix can't replace TV yet because there is too much content it doesn't carry. However a media centre that can aggregate your different media sources can. Especially so if your chosen sport have streaming as well. My choices of MotoGP, Cricket and NRL Rugby all stream, all of them can be supported directly by KODI.
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If you ignore the telemetry slurping, which has been back ported to 7 anyway 10 is ok. I think its seriously ugly but that is a personal preference. Like you I also hate the boxes in the start menu but I rarely hit the start menu in windows as I only use it for games and I run steam so its a non issue. Outside of that photoshop gets an icon on the desktop.
As for games DirectX 11.3 / 12 is probably the reason to move.
Depending on what you need it to do I have Photoshop CS2 working perfectly under wine on Linux Mint. I haven't tried Lightroom though
That just isn't true. I like gigabyte motherboards just because and every single one of those works out of the box on linux mint. Of those the vast majority won't work without a driver disk on windows 7 or 8. I only have 1 win10 install and it did work out of the box.
Yes it does. If you were to try Linux Mint MP3s will play out of the box, on the assumption you download the international version. Due to legal issues the USA version has mp3 playback removed in the default install, but can be added with 3 clicks after install. The part that is removed is the codec to allow MP3 playback.
At first boot it will be using the opensource drivers for your video card but a box will pop up saying "proprietary drivers are available for some of your hardware" it will list all of them and ask you if you want to install them or not. Hit yes and your machine will install the nVidia / amd drivers and reboot once. From there you are done. I haven't run into any media that won't play on a default install, it comes with LibreOffice which will do 99% of what people use MSOffice for, firefox, DVD burning software, audio recording software and image editing software.
There is always the possibility that you may have an edge case with your hardware that may cause you issues. However I haven't run into any other those in the past 5 years. I am running Mint on Dell latitudes, E6420 i7-2640m, NVS 4200m graphics, as their primary O/S, as well as multiple AMD processor (x2, x4 & x6 AM3 machines) on gigabyte boards with Nvidia graphics. I also have 3 Atom based machines with a mixture of Nvidia Ion and AMD Radeon cards that run without any hitch, including wireless, and ethernet. These are Shuttle XS35 machines and an ASUS EEbox.
All of these machines boot off the live cds with all hardware working. No hacks, grub parameters, hacking, compiling of drivers, downloading of anything weird, touching terminal or anything else required.
I have also installed mint on my MIL's crappy HP laptop which is an AMD Radeon and it worked perfectly. I can't remember any more of its specs though.
Pulling off a UBI or printing the money to fund it rather than raising it via taxes?
There is nothing stopping any country from implementing a basic income stream if their tax take can handle it. I would suggest that the Scandinavian countries are the ones that will have the easiest time of it as it is a relatively small step for them given their higher tax rates and higher social security contributions.
The guy stuck a gun in someone's face and demanded items from them on the implied threat that if they didn't cooperate he would shoot them. If someone is willing to do that for a couple of chicken wings and a sandwich they are clearly desperate and the next step to shooting a person is not a great leap.
As such I would suggest he does present a clear and present danger to the community.
I also think this is an interesting snapshot of life in America. Here people are concerned about the use of stinray to catch an armed criminal. If this has occurred in Australia the streets around would have been in lock down, a chopper would have been in the air and people would be inviting police to do a door to door search. And it's not because Australians are under the thumb, we just see firearms crime as really really really really serious and we don't hate our police force. I mean genuinely, our police force will have random dance offs with nightclub goers. Sure no one likes being pulled over by the cops, and there are plenty who hate them and call them pigs, but it doesn't appear to be the same as in the US.
While you may feel stitched up about their response I don't believe the reality is what you think it is. Identify theft is likely to cover multiple jurisdictions and hence fall under a larger organisation like the FBI. Your local police have neither the resources or the skills to track that type of crime, so they do what they are meant to, they document the offence and the details and it will get slurped by the FBI or whoever is looking after that type of case and it will be data matched and investigated by them.
With an armed hold up, you have someone who is willing to threaten someone with a weapon for a small return. The logical step is that that same person is also willing to harm someone for a small return. They are much more geographically restricted and pose a clear and present danger to the wider community. You also know that there will be no long term record trail, such as that created by identity fraud, so you have a very small window to successfully catch them.
Yeah pretty sure that was it. It was a long time ago that I read it though. I've also got in my head Jeremy Clarkson saying something similar so I could have them blended.
I can't be bothered to look it up but I think the Freakonomics guys did something like that.
Thats the one. Sorry, phonetic spelling is bad. It used to be the French capital town but then the Mississippi changed course as they pulled the logs out and it got left on a siding.
Some context, this is what my local news rag is printing "The anointing of a presidential nominee ought be a time for bells and whistles, but as Indiana's Republican voters blessed Donald Trump on Tuesday, the nominee's ascent serves only to underscore the descent of a once-great political party.
Texas senator Ted Cruz acknowledged that his crushing defeat had wider implications than for Indiana alone – with just half of the vote counted, Cruz announced he was abandoning his run for the White House, effectively handing the nomination to Trump."
Well as I said I'm not in the US so I'm basing things on what I read in the popular press. From where I sit Sanders and Clinton seem to represent two parts of the same party, and while lots may not like her personally I don't get the impression that there is a do anything to stop her movement.
The same popular press certainly makes representations that there are significant sections of the republican party who will do anything to stop trump.
I don't follow.... You would expect two candidates for the same party to get %s of the vote. By splitting I mean I don't think I have heard any in the Democrat party saying "We have to stop Hillary at all costs!"
Thanks. This was kinda what I was wondering. I've seen a lot of people who have said "I hate Trump. But I'd vote for him before I vote Democrat".
She may be those things or not. But from where I sit she doesn't seem to be splitting the democratic party. Trump on the other hand seemed to have major republican figures publicly attacking him.
Usa Japan has existed with that name since at least the 8th century and is not and has not ever been a manufacturing city.
I'm not in the US so all I get are news paper reports.
Is it possible for trump to win the presidency? From the outside he looks incredibly divisive even in his own party, but are there enough disenfranchised people that would jump on his band wagon to get over the line?
We had a similar muppet in Australia called Clive Palmer who managed to get elected to our house of reps despite all the press saying he didn't stand a chance.
No it didn't. This is a stupid internet legend with no basis in fact.
Yeah right. I say this as someone who rides performance motorcycles for fun and hence understand the enjoyment of driving. If I could get in a car every day and have it drive me to work while I was free to do work you couldn't sign me up fast enough.
Because self driving cars will be more predictable and more easily controlled, hence allowing a greater density of traffic to travel on the same infrastructure. An individual trip may be slower but the total network will be significantly better.
The ones that you have highlighted are definitely worthy of making the list. But most of the others are not. Colour television yes, but why the Sony TV which came out 14 years after colour tv was released.
If you want to go small electronic item, the home wifi router should be in that list long before lots of other things.
My name is ozymandias. King of Kings. Look at my works ye mighty and despair.
I feel like my brain just got dumber reading that list. The Wii? Fit bit? Oculus rift? Nest Thermostat? Roku Netflixs?
None of those things should even make the top 10,000 let alone the top 50. Initially I thought they were limiting it to post 1970s stuff and then they throw in an 1850s record player.
Plastics would have to be up there as well.
Netflix can't replace TV yet because there is too much content it doesn't carry. However a media centre that can aggregate your different media sources can. Especially so if your chosen sport have streaming as well. My choices of MotoGP, Cricket and NRL Rugby all stream, all of them can be supported directly by KODI.