...would be shutting down these god damn Windows machines that are infected zombies taking on the malicious tasks that this whole damn situation is about. No-IP is nothing without Microsoft's infected junk spewing garbage and infections all over the Internet. It's not like Microsoft doesn't hold the keys to immobilize a system running their own operating system anyway, they have the kill switch built right in to the OS before you even buy the license to run it in the form of WGA.
Ever been pulled over by a cop for a dumb reason (example: loud music), then repeatedly questioned and attempted to be tricked into a lie with incriminating statements, pulled over for a full 20-30 minutes, before finally being let go--with no other charges the cop tried to lure you into other than the original one that could have been given and ticketed in five minutes? It happened to me.
Too bad my friend and I both had our seatbelts on, I obeyed all traffic laws, had all working lights and signals, and did not fall for his attempts to catch me in some incriminating statement which he attempted to force out for a good 25 minutes or so. Poor guy, only got to give the original loud music ticket he originally pulled me over for, and wasted about 25 minutes on me that he could have actually been spending pulling people over who were actually doing something wrong that is actually worthy of an arrest or something. Like people disobeying traffic laws, driving wrecklessly, or something... you know... actually potentially harmful to other drivers on the road.
Ah well.. he probably felt that it was some sort of minor accomplishment, because his notes mentioned the name of the band that I was listening to and that there was some cussing, which the judge brought up in the court room and actually started laughing and joking about.
Since the dog can't smell memory, it must have been trained to smell something about the electronic components. That's bound to trigger a LOT of false positives in the modern world.
Officer: "May I see your driver's license and registration?" Driver: "Yes, here it is." Officer: "I noticed that your middle interior brake light is out and a little bit back you swerved." Driver: "Yes, I know the light is out, I just haven't had the time and money to get it fixed. And I swerved because a saw a small rabbit hop toward the road on the other side of a tree." Police Dog: "Bark! Bark! Bark bark! Bark!" Officer: "Alright, so have you done any drugs?" Driver: "No." Officer: "Do you have any drugs in the car?" Driver: "No, I told you I don't do any drugs." Officer: "Well my dog smells something suspecious, so I have the probable cause required by law to search your car." *officer opens glove compartment; dog gets excited" Officer: [saying quietly under his breath:] "Shit, it's just a fuse box." Officer: "Looks [smells?] like you've got a burnt fuse there, buddy. You might want to get that fixed." Driver: "I know. It's been blown for about two weeks. My interior lighting doesn't work." Officer: [silently thinking to himself:] "I guess I'm going to have to find some other way to nab this guy or work on finding someone else to nail. I need to meet my quota for this month."
For some reason, I *totally* imagine that or a similar situation occuring, and probably more than a few times in the future...
And that alternative is selling "Steam Machines" with a Microsoft tax? Fuck Dell/Alienware. Note to self: Time to blacklist Alienware and NEVER buy a Steam Machine from them.
Where the fuck are your mod points when you need them? Someone mod this guy funny... Ironically, on the other hand, I always have mod points when I feel no need to use them. Such a dumb setup.
I've had nothing but trouble with Firefox on my older machines (a 2001-era 1.7GHz P4 w/ 256MB RAM that was retired as a regular desktop several years ago; a POS Dell with AMD64 dual-core and 2GB RAM).
On the other hand... I have to say, since getting my new laptop, at least on the Linux side... no memory issues whatsoever. It has been upgraded from 4GB to 16GB and the couple megabytes it used to swap to disk on occasion after long periods of use is no more, and the Windows side (although buggy as all hell), at least when it runs, actually runs nicely. The only trouble with Windows 8.1 is trying to get the damn thing to boot up without locking up. Oh, and the borked Start screen, which for some reason got all fucked up in one of the updates. Currently using just over 800MB RAM; i3 window manager on openSUSE 13.1, two xterm windows (one running wget), Geany text editor with a bunch of tabs, Dolphin file manager, and Firefox with five tabs. Seems to hover around 700-800MB regularly, usually only breaks a gig when I start a virtual machine.
To be fair, with this being a laptop instead of a desktop, I do tend to use it differently (though I almost always have it hooked up to my external monitor/mouse/keyboard and use it as a desktop). I shut it down every day and put it in its carrying case; the desktop was left on 24/7 and ready to go, set up as an SSH server for when I'm away. For this reason I often only have maybe a couple handfuls of tabs open in Firefox at any given time, instead of the dozens or hundred-plus that I used to have open on the old desktop. It should be interesting when I get a proper, modern desktop machine to replace that old one and use it in a way that is more "typical" to my previous usage patterns, but until then I'm stuck with what I have. Still, recall instant and horrendous swapping just by visiting gmail.com, no other tabs open, which is gone on this system; it might just bring it to close to a gig of RAM used.
I admit... I miss my always-on, always-ready, always-serving machine... the portability of the laptop is not quite making up for it. If I had to live with only one for the long term... desktop it is. Yet the laptop has its advantages, which I wouldn't want to do without either. I honestly don't see how people can get by with only a laptop, yet I hear people say it all the time.
Who would have guessed that a drug-induced coma, a chemical that literally knocks you the fuck out, would have any kind of long-term effect whatsoever on the brain? Is this seriously news? Did anyone seriously not just kind of figure that such strong drugs for the purpose of suspending the brain would have, you know, mental effects?
I was just about to type something along the lines of what you did, but since you already did, it seems I can save myself the typing.
The way I see it: Desktop keyboards, Dvorak or Colemak; cell phones and tablet computers, MessagEase. Use the right tool for the job, and ironically, QWERTY is never the right tool (and this is especially true on a touchscreen "keyboard").
No... the real solution is, quit fucking putting such high-tech god damn road signs on the highways. Since when the fuck did the traditional pure metal signs go out of style? The roadsides don't need such expensive hackable junk. In fact, if they're electronic, programmable and have giant screens of some sort, I'd have a hard time even calling them "signs" in the first place. Just go back to the basics. How hard is it to figure out?
What's there to learn? That the U.S. government has grown out of control into a corrupt state of bullshit, lies and deceit, where not even the basic guarantees of its own Constitution and human rights of its citizens are upheld? Where you are automatically a criminal until proven innocent (assuming you're even granted a "speedy and fair trial" to pull that one off in the first place)?
The only thing to learn here is just what the extent of this country's corruption is. And that is the only thing I've consistently noticed: that it only goes one way... and that is, it only gets worse.
Depends on how you look at it, but last I checked the NT kernel had the absolute largest number of users on home and business desktops compared to any other operating system kernel out there...
Of course, if you add routers, phones and numerous other specialized systems into the mix, then Linux spanks the shit out of it.
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Any halfway-decent program will put an asterisk, brackets or some other character(s) in the window's title to let you distinguish between a file that is identical to the copy saved on disk and a file that has been modified since last saving. If your program doesn't even append something as simple as "(modified)" to the title of the window containing your file, then your program sucks and it'd probably be a good idea to switch to something that at least supports such a basic feature.
Oh, great. Next thing you know, you'll be paying extra for absolutely worthless components added to appliances, just so it can sell you more junk. You'll end up buying a refrigerator with built-in temperature and humidity sensors. Why? Just so your fridge can tell you you need to buy a humidifier every winter, and try to get you to buy a central air conditioner every summer day you walk into the kitchen. Temp sensor go bad? Oh, don't worry--if you don't fix it, it'll just bug you that you need to get a new furnace every winter day until you get it fixed.
Google, fuck you. And no thanks, you keep your ads away from my fucking appliances.
And how often do you need to watch youtube on a remote desktop when administering a remote computer?
That brings me back to the second sentence in my post.
"I personally make a distinction between "using" and "administering" a machine,..."
Did you even read the post at all? Obviously, you are talking about administering a system. But I can guarantee that I am not administering a system while I sit here wasting time posting crap on Slashdot, and I have this funny feeling you're not either.
I personally make a distinction between "using" and "administering" a machine, and as a user, I tend to run X11 (these days often with a tiling window manager). When I want to perform some administrative tasks, I'll often just run a terminal emulator within that environment. Face it, while great for many things, the command line--especially in its raw, no-X11 form, is pretty limited in many areas from the point of view of a typical user.
Don't get me wrong though; I'll often use wget instead of Firefox to download files, do basic file system operations in a terminal, even play an occasional podcast in mplayer. But really, it is not optimal to use the CLI 100% for everyday use for semi-normal people.
And *that* is exactly the choice I made. I refuse to pay a monthly bill for a garbage service that acts as a medium for ad delivery more than anything. And an overpriced service at that. Not to mention the shitty programming, I'd rather watch paint dry (and as a bonus, that would be a much cheaper form of entertainment).
I want to know how come my telephone line has gone from $7/month in 1997 to $32/month today, with no change in service.
I think that's your problem right now. If you're sitting there getting increasingly screwed by AT&T over the cost of their telephone service since around 1997, then why the hell are you still with them? What are you waiting for, the two-decade mark?
Then again, the same could be said of cable TV subscribers. They've been getting reamed for decades, they know they're getting fucked, but they keep bending over more and more every time the company raises their already ridiculous rates. I never even hear many complaints anymore, people are just so damn used to the prices going up. But they never tell the cable companies to go fuck themselves and take their business elsewhere, to an entertainment provider that has more fair pricing and service. So the cycle continues... indefinitely.
Doubt it. It's more likely that they believe in a "let's make something that does every fucking thing you can imagine, but do none of it well" in a similar way as Sony, which they've proven with the Xbox 360, and especially made obvious with its dashboard replacement. That device? The cell phone, with their own OS on it. They didn't buy Nokia for nothing...
By... removing it? That's an improvement? If it's poor code, why not just, you know... rewrite or improve it, instead of gutting it completely? Oh yeah, because only the clueless matter to Mozilla anymore.
I actually love the lack of status bar. I can see more of the page. It has allowed me to see more of the page while still spending vertical space on a title bar, menu bar and the desktop environment's panels.
Meanwhile, I despise the lack of the ability to use small icons any more. It allowed me to see more of the page, since the beginning of Firefox's existance. And now, Mozilla seems to feel the need that smaller icons and many other customization features are unnecessary, and as a result I can't fucking do shit with this atrocious release. Just when you think Firefox can't possibly get any worse, that Mozilla's mastered the art of turning their browser to shit, they impress yet again with feature removal after feature removal, all while still saying, "go find an add-on!" Seriously, there needs to be a Mozilla equivalent to RTFM; how about go "FAFE" (Find A Fucking Extension)?
Microsoft decides to help XP users one final time, they get criticized for still supporting an aging OS.
And that is the point. Is this really the final time? Based on the fact that they acted as wimps who, after all these years *still* can't keep their word on XP's EOL and, in fact, shat all over what "end-of-life" is even supposed to mean, I refuse to believe that this will be the "last" update. Yet, it needs to be (or better yet, it should never have happened). They originally pulled off something similar, bringing XP back from the virtual grave *three* Windows versions ago for OEMs, during the time of the dud that was Vista and the Linux-based netbook's rise in popularity.
And I would say that XP is beyond aging--it was "aging" years ago. At this point it is an old, rotten, foul-smelling binary corpse decomposing, and has been for quite a while now.
I used Virgin Mobile originally; no contracts there. But I was paying for "Unlimited" everything-I-don't-need (text and data) and getting barely any real talk minutes (hey, ain't that the whole god damn point of a phone in the first place?) unless I started blowing 50-60 bucks a month on the service. That was unacceptable, so in my quest to find a) a phone that doesn't suck (too bad) and b) a service that will screw me the least (face it, they all do, in some way) while c) being cheap, I settled on Zact. You get what you pay for, literally, and you get no excessive garbage (like unlimited data, when you're already paying for home Internet) that you don't want. Contract? Nah, if I want to, I could buy a Republic Wireless Moto X, move my number to them, and switch to their service tomorrow. Fuck contracts.
I currently run openSUSE for its relatively up-to-date programs, working wireless drivers (especially for my previous system with a POS Broadcom chip), etc. I now have a system with slightly more Linux-friendly drivers (Intel wireless), I just have to wait for the major distros to support it because it's so new (Debian Testing supposedly does, I just don't want to run Testing...). I might then switch to another distro, but I'm staying with Linux. I primarily use the i3 window manager, except on occasion when I want to play a game on Steam (which doesn't seem to get along too well with i3, so I temporarily switch to KDE).
Ironically, after "upgrading" from the crap that is Windows 8 that the laptop came with to Windows 8.1, the damn operating system can't even boot half the time without locking up. Not that big of a deal, since I rarely need it... but god damn, does it get annoying when I would like to reboot into it for whatever reason. Even worse is when I spend 5 reboots and 15 minutes just to spend 2 or 3 minutes actually doing something in the OS.
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...would be shutting down these god damn Windows machines that are infected zombies taking on the malicious tasks that this whole damn situation is about. No-IP is nothing without Microsoft's infected junk spewing garbage and infections all over the Internet. It's not like Microsoft doesn't hold the keys to immobilize a system running their own operating system anyway, they have the kill switch built right in to the OS before you even buy the license to run it in the form of WGA.
Ever been pulled over by a cop for a dumb reason (example: loud music), then repeatedly questioned and attempted to be tricked into a lie with incriminating statements, pulled over for a full 20-30 minutes, before finally being let go--with no other charges the cop tried to lure you into other than the original one that could have been given and ticketed in five minutes? It happened to me.
Too bad my friend and I both had our seatbelts on, I obeyed all traffic laws, had all working lights and signals, and did not fall for his attempts to catch me in some incriminating statement which he attempted to force out for a good 25 minutes or so. Poor guy, only got to give the original loud music ticket he originally pulled me over for, and wasted about 25 minutes on me that he could have actually been spending pulling people over who were actually doing something wrong that is actually worthy of an arrest or something. Like people disobeying traffic laws, driving wrecklessly, or something... you know... actually potentially harmful to other drivers on the road.
Ah well.. he probably felt that it was some sort of minor accomplishment, because his notes mentioned the name of the band that I was listening to and that there was some cussing, which the judge brought up in the court room and actually started laughing and joking about.
Since the dog can't smell memory, it must have been trained to smell something about the electronic components. That's bound to trigger a LOT of false positives in the modern world.
Officer: "May I see your driver's license and registration?"
Driver: "Yes, here it is."
Officer: "I noticed that your middle interior brake light is out and a little bit back you swerved."
Driver: "Yes, I know the light is out, I just haven't had the time and money to get it fixed. And I swerved because a saw a small rabbit hop toward the road on the other side of a tree."
Police Dog: "Bark! Bark! Bark bark! Bark!"
Officer: "Alright, so have you done any drugs?"
Driver: "No."
Officer: "Do you have any drugs in the car?"
Driver: "No, I told you I don't do any drugs."
Officer: "Well my dog smells something suspecious, so I have the probable cause required by law to search your car."
*officer opens glove compartment; dog gets excited"
Officer: [saying quietly under his breath:] "Shit, it's just a fuse box."
Officer: "Looks [smells?] like you've got a burnt fuse there, buddy. You might want to get that fixed."
Driver: "I know. It's been blown for about two weeks. My interior lighting doesn't work."
Officer: [silently thinking to himself:] "I guess I'm going to have to find some other way to nab this guy or work on finding someone else to nail. I need to meet my quota for this month."
For some reason, I *totally* imagine that or a similar situation occuring, and probably more than a few times in the future...
And that alternative is selling "Steam Machines" with a Microsoft tax? Fuck Dell/Alienware. Note to self: Time to blacklist Alienware and NEVER buy a Steam Machine from them.
Where the fuck are your mod points when you need them? Someone mod this guy funny...
Ironically, on the other hand, I always have mod points when I feel no need to use them. Such a dumb setup.
I've had nothing but trouble with Firefox on my older machines (a 2001-era 1.7GHz P4 w/ 256MB RAM that was retired as a regular desktop several years ago; a POS Dell with AMD64 dual-core and 2GB RAM).
On the other hand... I have to say, since getting my new laptop, at least on the Linux side... no memory issues whatsoever. It has been upgraded from 4GB to 16GB and the couple megabytes it used to swap to disk on occasion after long periods of use is no more, and the Windows side (although buggy as all hell), at least when it runs, actually runs nicely. The only trouble with Windows 8.1 is trying to get the damn thing to boot up without locking up. Oh, and the borked Start screen, which for some reason got all fucked up in one of the updates. Currently using just over 800MB RAM; i3 window manager on openSUSE 13.1, two xterm windows (one running wget), Geany text editor with a bunch of tabs, Dolphin file manager, and Firefox with five tabs. Seems to hover around 700-800MB regularly, usually only breaks a gig when I start a virtual machine.
To be fair, with this being a laptop instead of a desktop, I do tend to use it differently (though I almost always have it hooked up to my external monitor/mouse/keyboard and use it as a desktop). I shut it down every day and put it in its carrying case; the desktop was left on 24/7 and ready to go, set up as an SSH server for when I'm away. For this reason I often only have maybe a couple handfuls of tabs open in Firefox at any given time, instead of the dozens or hundred-plus that I used to have open on the old desktop. It should be interesting when I get a proper, modern desktop machine to replace that old one and use it in a way that is more "typical" to my previous usage patterns, but until then I'm stuck with what I have. Still, recall instant and horrendous swapping just by visiting gmail.com, no other tabs open, which is gone on this system; it might just bring it to close to a gig of RAM used.
I admit... I miss my always-on, always-ready, always-serving machine... the portability of the laptop is not quite making up for it. If I had to live with only one for the long term... desktop it is. Yet the laptop has its advantages, which I wouldn't want to do without either. I honestly don't see how people can get by with only a laptop, yet I hear people say it all the time.
Who would have guessed that a drug-induced coma, a chemical that literally knocks you the fuck out, would have any kind of long-term effect whatsoever on the brain? Is this seriously news? Did anyone seriously not just kind of figure that such strong drugs for the purpose of suspending the brain would have, you know, mental effects?
I was just about to type something along the lines of what you did, but since you already did, it seems I can save myself the typing.
The way I see it: Desktop keyboards, Dvorak or Colemak; cell phones and tablet computers, MessagEase. Use the right tool for the job, and ironically, QWERTY is never the right tool (and this is especially true on a touchscreen "keyboard").
No... the real solution is, quit fucking putting such high-tech god damn road signs on the highways. Since when the fuck did the traditional pure metal signs go out of style? The roadsides don't need such expensive hackable junk. In fact, if they're electronic, programmable and have giant screens of some sort, I'd have a hard time even calling them "signs" in the first place. Just go back to the basics. How hard is it to figure out?
What's there to learn? That the U.S. government has grown out of control into a corrupt state of bullshit, lies and deceit, where not even the basic guarantees of its own Constitution and human rights of its citizens are upheld? Where you are automatically a criminal until proven innocent (assuming you're even granted a "speedy and fair trial" to pull that one off in the first place)?
The only thing to learn here is just what the extent of this country's corruption is. And that is the only thing I've consistently noticed: that it only goes one way... and that is, it only gets worse.
Two words: Alternative Firmware.
Beats the hell out of the stock junk that companies put on their hardware.
I think you're somehow blaming hardware companies' incompetence with software on Linux itself, which makes no fucking sense whatsoever.
Depends on how you look at it, but last I checked the NT kernel had the absolute largest number of users on home and business desktops compared to any other operating system kernel out there...
Of course, if you add routers, phones and numerous other specialized systems into the mix, then Linux spanks the shit out of it.
Any halfway-decent program will put an asterisk, brackets or some other character(s) in the window's title to let you distinguish between a file that is identical to the copy saved on disk and a file that has been modified since last saving. If your program doesn't even append something as simple as "(modified)" to the title of the window containing your file, then your program sucks and it'd probably be a good idea to switch to something that at least supports such a basic feature.
Oh, great. Next thing you know, you'll be paying extra for absolutely worthless components added to appliances, just so it can sell you more junk. You'll end up buying a refrigerator with built-in temperature and humidity sensors. Why? Just so your fridge can tell you you need to buy a humidifier every winter, and try to get you to buy a central air conditioner every summer day you walk into the kitchen. Temp sensor go bad? Oh, don't worry--if you don't fix it, it'll just bug you that you need to get a new furnace every winter day until you get it fixed.
Google, fuck you. And no thanks, you keep your ads away from my fucking appliances.
And how often do you need to watch youtube on a remote desktop when administering a remote computer?
That brings me back to the second sentence in my post.
"I personally make a distinction between "using" and "administering" a machine,..."
Did you even read the post at all? Obviously, you are talking about administering a system. But I can guarantee that I am not administering a system while I sit here wasting time posting crap on Slashdot, and I have this funny feeling you're not either.
Have fun watching YouTube in Lynx.
I personally make a distinction between "using" and "administering" a machine, and as a user, I tend to run X11 (these days often with a tiling window manager). When I want to perform some administrative tasks, I'll often just run a terminal emulator within that environment. Face it, while great for many things, the command line--especially in its raw, no-X11 form, is pretty limited in many areas from the point of view of a typical user.
Don't get me wrong though; I'll often use wget instead of Firefox to download files, do basic file system operations in a terminal, even play an occasional podcast in mplayer. But really, it is not optimal to use the CLI 100% for everyday use for semi-normal people.
"One choice is to do without."
And *that* is exactly the choice I made. I refuse to pay a monthly bill for a garbage service that acts as a medium for ad delivery more than anything. And an overpriced service at that. Not to mention the shitty programming, I'd rather watch paint dry (and as a bonus, that would be a much cheaper form of entertainment).
I want to know how come my telephone line has gone from $7/month in 1997 to $32/month today, with no change in service .
I think that's your problem right now. If you're sitting there getting increasingly screwed by AT&T over the cost of their telephone service since around 1997, then why the hell are you still with them? What are you waiting for, the two-decade mark?
Then again, the same could be said of cable TV subscribers. They've been getting reamed for decades, they know they're getting fucked, but they keep bending over more and more every time the company raises their already ridiculous rates. I never even hear many complaints anymore, people are just so damn used to the prices going up. But they never tell the cable companies to go fuck themselves and take their business elsewhere, to an entertainment provider that has more fair pricing and service. So the cycle continues... indefinitely.
Doubt it. It's more likely that they believe in a "let's make something that does every fucking thing you can imagine, but do none of it well" in a similar way as Sony, which they've proven with the Xbox 360, and especially made obvious with its dashboard replacement. That device? The cell phone, with their own OS on it. They didn't buy Nokia for nothing...
By... removing it? That's an improvement? If it's poor code, why not just, you know... rewrite or improve it, instead of gutting it completely? Oh yeah, because only the clueless matter to Mozilla anymore.
I actually love the lack of status bar. I can see more of the page. It has allowed me to see more of the page while still spending vertical space on a title bar, menu bar and the desktop environment's panels.
Meanwhile, I despise the lack of the ability to use small icons any more. It allowed me to see more of the page, since the beginning of Firefox's existance. And now, Mozilla seems to feel the need that smaller icons and many other customization features are unnecessary, and as a result I can't fucking do shit with this atrocious release. Just when you think Firefox can't possibly get any worse, that Mozilla's mastered the art of turning their browser to shit, they impress yet again with feature removal after feature removal, all while still saying, "go find an add-on!" Seriously, there needs to be a Mozilla equivalent to RTFM; how about go "FAFE" (Find A Fucking Extension)?
No amount of patches will fix XP... it is broken to the core.
Microsoft decides to help XP users one final time, they get criticized for still supporting an aging OS.
And that is the point. Is this really the final time? Based on the fact that they acted as wimps who, after all these years *still* can't keep their word on XP's EOL and, in fact, shat all over what "end-of-life" is even supposed to mean, I refuse to believe that this will be the "last" update. Yet, it needs to be (or better yet, it should never have happened). They originally pulled off something similar, bringing XP back from the virtual grave *three* Windows versions ago for OEMs, during the time of the dud that was Vista and the Linux-based netbook's rise in popularity.
And I would say that XP is beyond aging--it was "aging" years ago. At this point it is an old, rotten, foul-smelling binary corpse decomposing, and has been for quite a while now.
I used Virgin Mobile originally; no contracts there. But I was paying for "Unlimited" everything-I-don't-need (text and data) and getting barely any real talk minutes (hey, ain't that the whole god damn point of a phone in the first place?) unless I started blowing 50-60 bucks a month on the service. That was unacceptable, so in my quest to find a) a phone that doesn't suck (too bad) and b) a service that will screw me the least (face it, they all do, in some way) while c) being cheap, I settled on Zact. You get what you pay for, literally, and you get no excessive garbage (like unlimited data, when you're already paying for home Internet) that you don't want. Contract? Nah, if I want to, I could buy a Republic Wireless Moto X, move my number to them, and switch to their service tomorrow. Fuck contracts.
I currently run openSUSE for its relatively up-to-date programs, working wireless drivers (especially for my previous system with a POS Broadcom chip), etc. I now have a system with slightly more Linux-friendly drivers (Intel wireless), I just have to wait for the major distros to support it because it's so new (Debian Testing supposedly does, I just don't want to run Testing...). I might then switch to another distro, but I'm staying with Linux. I primarily use the i3 window manager, except on occasion when I want to play a game on Steam (which doesn't seem to get along too well with i3, so I temporarily switch to KDE).
Ironically, after "upgrading" from the crap that is Windows 8 that the laptop came with to Windows 8.1, the damn operating system can't even boot half the time without locking up. Not that big of a deal, since I rarely need it... but god damn, does it get annoying when I would like to reboot into it for whatever reason. Even worse is when I spend 5 reboots and 15 minutes just to spend 2 or 3 minutes actually doing something in the OS.