I was just leaving a warning, since many people would read your comment, and may be tempted to use yaourt, which actually sources the PKGBUILD's before you check them.
Because experienced users usually want to configure their own PCs to their likings, and Ubuntu makes this way harder than Arch. While installing Ubuntu may be easier, configuring Ubuntu to my liking can take a lot more time than it takes to configure Arch.
Or course, newbies will customize neither, so Ubuntu is the way to go for them.
That depends a lot. On a distro like Ubuntu, 6 months means a single real update really. On Arch, since it's rolling release (and bleeding edge), every single package may have been updated several times, as well as some not-so-minor changes to the filesystem, for example.
I've been running two PCs with arch for about 18 months now, and have never encountered any real issues with the rolling-update process.
Really? A half-hour installation process turned you off? I don't mean to be offensive, but you're really better off using something like Mint or Ubuntu; Arch is a "configure it the way you like it" distro, so even after installation, you still need to manage you own system.
Please don't recommend yaourt on public places like this. It has serious security issues, and you'll just make new users start using it on their first day. If you must recomend an AUR helper, it'd better be packer.
In any case, the point of not including an AUR helper ni arch, is because AUR is unsupported, and any user can upload anything there. Users are advised to review the PKGBUILD before building it (it might just say "rm -rf/").
I just visit the website if I have any issues/warnings/errors (since I -Syu every day). The rule is, though, to follow arch-announce, or follow the website's rss.
Yeah, but the comparison here is wine vs windows. I don't think you can run your entire Steam library on OS X either. Plus, Linux would run fine on a mac, so the actual issue here is OS X, though that's beside the point.
opt-in vs opt-out is really a huge difference. Also, Debian's popcon has a different goal, to improve which packages are included in the installation CDs, etc. They're politely asking you to contribute information in exchange for a free product/service.
There aren't several thousand app stores for windows 8, while there are several thousand retailers. Also, I can just pay cash and there's no record of who made the transaction at a retailer. Finally, freeware doesn't got through a retailer.
Sadly, this isn't true. Do you see a drop in amount of facebook users with all the privacy issues they constantly have? Nope. Average Joe doesn't care about "trust" or "security", because he doesn't even know what those things are.
That's why they click yes on "Run free-chicks.exe as root?".
Some applications might break (such as mutt), though it's generaly safe. It should be noted that linux now uses relatime by default, which seems to be more efficiente than atime, but not break anything (like noatime).
The idea behind "the company loosing" is to de-motivate it and other companies to do the same. For example, if paypal takes everybody's money away to a total of 50M, and looses 100M in a class action lawsuit, they'll certainly think twice about doing it again. And so will other similar companies.
In many cases, justice is about setting an example and de-motivating others from doing the same (bad) thing.
No, only a few. And in a great deal of countries, those sort of clauses have no value; the right to a class action suit (or any lawsuit) is something you cannot forfeit, so that clause's existance makes no difference.
Came here to say exactly that. How do they know the amount of pirated copies? It's not like no-drm cracks have a call-home feature, or pirates register somewhere. Pretty hard to count this if you ask me. How can I know the amount of people that play pirated games in my block? In my neighbourhood? In the world? No precise way to know AFAIK.
Then just make game that don't support IE, pretty easy. IE is used greatly in corporate enviroments, you won't loose too many users on a non-IE game anyway.
You're right. The correct word is "annoying". It annoys me to see ads all over the screen, they use up bandwidth, and can affect browsing performance of really low-end hardware in some cases.
Cash can loose it's value just as fast as money in a bank, regrettably, I see this day to day. On the other hand, but not using cash, I don't need to have my pocket filled with bits of metal, and pieces all day long, just one plastic card, and save around 10% of my monthly income using debit card.
Pretty similar to "extra 10% salary" in other words really. And if ARS get suddenly devaluated, I'm as much screwed as the guy next to me using cash.
That's really how it works where you live? In Argentina it's forbidden to charge extra for debit/credit cards, and debit cards will give you a 4.7% refund on all purchases at the end of the month. In short, I save 4.7% of everything I pay in debit card, while extracting money from the ATM is annoying, and they usually don't even have change.
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I was just leaving a warning, since many people would read your comment, and may be tempted to use yaourt, which actually sources the PKGBUILD's before you check them.
Because experienced users usually want to configure their own PCs to their likings, and Ubuntu makes this way harder than Arch.
While installing Ubuntu may be easier, configuring Ubuntu to my liking can take a lot more time than it takes to configure Arch.
Or course, newbies will customize neither, so Ubuntu is the way to go for them.
Arch is "bleeding edge", and also KISS.
That depends a lot. On a distro like Ubuntu, 6 months means a single real update really. On Arch, since it's rolling release (and bleeding edge), every single package may have been updated several times, as well as some not-so-minor changes to the filesystem, for example.
I've been running two PCs with arch for about 18 months now, and have never encountered any real issues with the rolling-update process.
Really? A half-hour installation process turned you off? I don't mean to be offensive, but you're really better off using something like Mint or Ubuntu; Arch is a "configure it the way you like it" distro, so even after installation, you still need to manage you own system.
Arch now supports package signing (and it's enabled by default), so your point is pretty much invalid.
Please don't recommend yaourt on public places like this. It has serious security issues, and you'll just make new users start using it on their first day. If you must recomend an AUR helper, it'd better be packer.
In any case, the point of not including an AUR helper ni arch, is because AUR is unsupported, and any user can upload anything there. Users are advised to review the PKGBUILD before building it (it might just say "rm -rf /").
I just visit the website if I have any issues/warnings/errors (since I -Syu every day). The rule is, though, to follow arch-announce, or follow the website's rss.
Yeah, but the comparison here is wine vs windows. I don't think you can run your entire Steam library on OS X either.
Plus, Linux would run fine on a mac, so the actual issue here is OS X, though that's beside the point.
opt-in vs opt-out is really a huge difference.
Also, Debian's popcon has a different goal, to improve which packages are included in the installation CDs, etc. They're politely asking you to contribute information in exchange for a free product/service.
There aren't several thousand app stores for windows 8, while there are several thousand retailers. Also, I can just pay cash and there's no record of who made the transaction at a retailer. Finally, freeware doesn't got through a retailer.
Did you check if it doesn't run with wine? You'd be surprised how much it has improved recently.
It's basically a sort-of-VPS tailored a bit differently and sold with a new label. You still need to maintain and backup important stuff yourself.
Sadly, this isn't true. Do you see a drop in amount of facebook users with all the privacy issues they constantly have? Nope. Average Joe doesn't care about "trust" or "security", because he doesn't even know what those things are.
That's why they click yes on "Run free-chicks.exe as root?".
Some applications might break (such as mutt), though it's generaly safe.
It should be noted that linux now uses relatime by default, which seems to be more efficiente than atime, but not break anything (like noatime).
The idea behind "the company loosing" is to de-motivate it and other companies to do the same.
For example, if paypal takes everybody's money away to a total of 50M, and looses 100M in a class action lawsuit, they'll certainly think twice about doing it again. And so will other similar companies.
In many cases, justice is about setting an example and de-motivating others from doing the same (bad) thing.
No, only a few. And in a great deal of countries, those sort of clauses have no value; the right to a class action suit (or any lawsuit) is something you cannot forfeit, so that clause's existance makes no difference.
The choice they would take is quite obvious: none of the above. Just stuff more money in their pockets and keep everything as-is.
Came here to say exactly that. How do they know the amount of pirated copies? It's not like no-drm cracks have a call-home feature, or pirates register somewhere. Pretty hard to count this if you ask me. How can I know the amount of people that play pirated games in my block? In my neighbourhood? In the world? No precise way to know AFAIK.
If you keep putting companies on your boycott list for quite acceptable reasons, you're not going to have a lot of nice things.
FTFY
Then just make game that don't support IE, pretty easy. IE is used greatly in corporate enviroments, you won't loose too many users on a non-IE game anyway.
And google just hosts http uri's.
Mere semantics.
You're right. The correct word is "annoying". It annoys me to see ads all over the screen, they use up bandwidth, and can affect browsing performance of really low-end hardware in some cases.
Cash can loose it's value just as fast as money in a bank, regrettably, I see this day to day. On the other hand, but not using cash, I don't need to have my pocket filled with bits of metal, and pieces all day long, just one plastic card, and save around 10% of my monthly income using debit card.
Pretty similar to "extra 10% salary" in other words really. And if ARS get suddenly devaluated, I'm as much screwed as the guy next to me using cash.
That's really how it works where you live? In Argentina it's forbidden to charge extra for debit/credit cards, and debit cards will give you a 4.7% refund on all purchases at the end of the month.
In short, I save 4.7% of everything I pay in debit card, while extracting money from the ATM is annoying, and they usually don't even have change.