You should already the Windows Subsystem for Linux that if you're running Anniversary Edition (the previous version.) I use it every day - there are some minor issues with how it interprets symbolic links, but otherwise it seems pretty good. Shame there's no X11 on it though.
GNOME Classic was pretty awful the last time I checked (I was trying it under whatever the latest version of Fedora was in January of 2016.) Having to edit panels by using a web browser and browsing to an external website is patently ridiculous, for example. The applets are atrocious too - for example, why replace that simple visual workspace switcher from GNOME 2 with a menu?
My gut feeling is that Classic is an attempt to make people think "Oh, this isn't as good as I remember it, let me try GNOME Shell instead", but my view is it's awful and I'd rather try anything else.
Cinnamon is your best bet for a GTK3 desktop at this stage. I'm just unhappy with certain design decisions (the use of Webkit, running as root, with plugins enabled, for the DM being the most major.) But it generally works, is clean, pleasant to use, and is a real desktop. I just wish it had better 2 in 1 support.
GNOME 3 has a faster workflow than Cinnamon or Unity Desktop.
...if you want it to do a fairly limited subset of things, mostly involving a full-screen only desktop.
. Cinnamon has a fixed virtual desktop arrangement and (last I checked) no Activities view, so you're back to spending 6 seconds navigating (well-arranged) menus instead of 1 second to open whatever application you were thinking.
Cinnamon is a traditional desktop. It can have as many virtual desktops as you want - it's pretty much GNOME 2 built with GNOME 3 technologies, cleaned up and looking much better. If by "Activities" you mean "Applications", they're either a single click or a categorized start menu away. They're not buried in massive full-screen giant icon panels.
The world is moving away from Windows 95 desktop interfaces. There's a loud minority installing "Classic Shell" on Windows, and they get way too much attention.
Windows 8.x was discontinued by Microsoft and replaced with Windows 10, which you should try out some time - it essentially reverts back to the traditional desktop, complete with start menu. That's why you're seeing a reduction in the number of people installing Classic Shell - for most people, it doesn't really change Windows 10 that dramatically.
Microsoft found that the vast majority of people do, actually, want the traditional desktop.
Clinton got more votes than Trump. It's the states, not the people who elected Trump, and there's no "pioneering spirit" nonsense that really explains that given states are institutions, not people.
Yeah, and it all feels great until... until you want to add an applet to one of the bars. And then, amazingly, you have to load up Firefox, navigate to a website, and edit your bar from there. Note: I don't mean you download stuff from said website (though that happens too), I mean that's where you set up each applet.
The defaults on the distro I tried it with were pretty terrible too, so it wasn't as if changing the settings was some obscure thing only power users would want to do.
I actually have a plug-in for Cinnamon that does global menus, but it relies upon Unity being installed to work (presumably so that GNOME, QT, etc have the appropriate patches to redirect the menus.) So here's hoping future Ubuntus will come with Unity - even if we don't use it.
I'm guessing that when Gnome does return to Ubuntu as the default DE, it'll be a bit customized at least. It wouldn't be too had to create the addons to make Unity users feel a little more at home on Gnome 3.
I hope so, GNOME 3 really is awful, and I'm not seeing anything approaching mass adoption of it. Shuttleworth talks about the market picking it, but did it? Ubuntu users who were Unity skeptics didn't flock to GUbuntu, they flocked to Mint.
I wish Canonical had adopted Cinnamon instead. I think it's a desktop with a lot of potential, but it needs some good quality control (the fact the DM runs Webkit as root, including installed plugins, should tell you how much the Mint team cares about quality right now...) "The Market" seemed to be adopting Cinnamon and MATE. Where's this "adopting GNOME 3" thing coming from?
I'm not a huge fan of either desktop, but Unity seemed better thought out and closer to an ideal system than GNOME's "Re-invent everything but for no apparent reason" approach.
I guess I'll stick to Cinnamon for now. I just wish someone would put together a good GNU/Linux 2:1 desktop.
Yes, but the entire system is more expensive than bus rides. Transit is meant to be efficient, a system that essentially requires suburban infrastructure (including, essentially, a ban on walkable development) is never going to be efficient - and so will never be priced reasonably.
Add that to the fact they're hitching their wagon to a company heading towards bankruptcy, and, well, you have to wonder...
Yeah, we all read, and your argument still doesn't hold water. The only reason why, for example, the IRA isn't responsible for more terror in Britain than IS*/AQ this decade is because the IRA is more or less defunct.
Even in the US, Islamic terrorists are hardly responsible for 95% of terror attacks or deaths - white supremacists - just as one example - make up a significant proportion of attacks, even today. Muslims (and non-Muslims who belong to religions involving head dresses) have also been repeatedly been the subject of terror attacks by people who think like you in the US.
Are you going to call for white supremacists to be deported? That'd be amusing...
You're thinking of a corruption of the term 'vintage' commonly used by Millennials/hipsters, where it is wronly assumed to mean 'old' or 'antique'. That usage is incorrect.
The Millennials/hipsters are using the word as it's been used for decades, probably centuries. Vintage has been a synonym for antique for as long as I remember - Vintage Car Rallies are not a new millennial thing, for example.
"Extremely famous and influential computer company that's not significantly updated its major computer lines in five years to announce replacement models" is a fairly reasonable item to put on the front page. If this were about Apple releasing new earbuds, I'd agree, but it isn't.
Anyone who buys Yahoo is buying it for the brand, however tarnished it might be. Building a webmail system, news aggregator, and search engine front end (using Bing or Google as the back end, who'd be delighted to work for you) is relatively cheap and easy these days. What takes effort and huge amounts of marketing dollars is to get people to visit mail.oath.com, my.aoth.com, etc, and have them sign up and keep coming back.
I really don't think Verizon is buying Yahoo simply to run some kind of marketing stunt to get people to forget about it. Why bother? Why buy Yahoo if your aim isn't to buy an existing user base?
...and this (and all the replies) is why people to rant about Stallman being evil because he wants the operating system that combines the GNU userland with the Linux kernel to be called GNU/Linux are hopelessly wrong.
Linux is, and always was, just the kernel. It always was strange that so many insisted on naming the entire operating system after just one component, still more so the mental gymnastics people would go through to justify it. And the development of Android meant there really wasn't an excuse any more to continue with it - here was an operating system entirely unlike GNU/Linux in any form, and it too used the Linux kernel.
...do it via universal healthcare systems, either directly funded by taxation, or via a strong, well regulated, health insurance system that covers everyone.
But yeah, begging for money via the Internet works too, I guess.
I've yet to see anyone routinely slapped with the SJW label who supports Drupal's actions here. It might be because kink-shaming is actually anti-social justice. But you'll never get the Gamergate/MRA/Alt-Reichters that infest Slashdot these days to admit that.
Anita Sarkesian tells us were having wrongfun if we enjoy mainstream video games
No, she's never said anything remotely similar. In fact, most of her videos start with her, fruitlessly apparently, pointing out it's totally OK to enjoy media that has themes that could be critiqued.
. The folks at WorldCon tell us we're having wrongfun if we enjoy good SF books without regard to the political leanings of the authors
The only people who have told us we need to vote for science fiction books on the basis of the ideologies they represent are the two puppies groups, who were formed because they didn't like the opinions implied or expressed by recent Hugo winners, winners selected by over 10,000 ordinary science fiction readers. Worldcon is not one of the puppies groups.
It sounds, to me, that you're living in the right wing bubble, where people tell each other nonsense about liberals, and even do the exact things they claim not to do. When was the last time a Sarkeesian critic saw a game with, say, a black medieval knight or a transgender galactic gunslinger, and said "I'm totally fine with that and not going to complain at all, I personally don't like games like that, but I appreciate there's an audience for people who do"?
The idea is you have logging that tells you what happened. If necessary that will include a stack trace that indicates exactly where the error occurred.
Computers do not read logs, nor do they parse stack traces. If you're at the point you're reading a log or stack trace, then there's obviously a serious problem with your code. Subtle problems are likely to never appear.
Do you often find yourself looking at a catch block and needing to know what throws to it?
Alas. Yes.
If so, why?
Because structurally it encourages developers to hide issues rather than handle them at the time. Exceptions are rarely exceptional, they're thrown over common situations such as files not existing or servers not responding with data over a network.
Really we need to rethink what we use exceptions for - and, indeed, if we should have them at all.
Outside of Silicon Valley women are usually treated well and as equals
Meh, I've witnessed awful treatment of women in the industry and never worked anywhere near SV.
Remember that stat, that 25% of women in colleges have been sexually assaulted? How initially it seems unbelievable because, hey, you wouldn't, and I wouldn't, and most men you know wouldn't, so how can that be?
The reason it's likely true is that it doesn't a huge proportion of men to be assholes for a disproportionate number of women to be affected. If, say, 2-5% of men in college think it's OK to touch women inappropriately and non-consensually in environments in which they can get away with it, and you assume each of them gets away with it, and so assaults multiple women, then, wow, you're up to 25% of college women being sexually assaulted pretty quickly.
And the same is true in businesses. Leaving aside institutional and structural problems - which exist everywhere - it doesn't really take a lot of male employees to be assholes, showing a level of disrespect for women they'd never show to men, for women to be disproportionately affected.
One office I worked for had such a person. As in every male member of the programming team knew he hated women, and that the extremely qualified, hard working, smart woman working with him was being treated like shit solely because she was a woman, and neither young nor blonde enough to make him at least be chivalrous to her as compensation.
To my and my coworkers shame we never did anything about it. We didn't talk to him about it, we continued to treat him as a - distant, perhaps - friends. We didn't talk to management about it. "G is strong", we told ourselves, "She doesn't put up with his bullshit", and, well, yeah, but bullying is bullying, and working in that environment wears down the strongest of all of us.
It's getting a lot of press in SV right now because SV is the hub of the tech industry, and has sizable number of progressives involved in it. But the idea it's limited to SV is absurd, that'd be to assume either that base human behavior (because there'll always be sexism) somehow is under control elsewhere, or that management skills have developed to a remarkable level outside of SV.
I honestly can't remember the last time I used an explicit GOTO. That said, exception handling in most programming languages seems to actually be worse and I've used that.
Some time ago, someone proposed a spoof programming language, whose name temporarily escapes me, that included just about every bad idea possible. This included a "COMEFROM" structure that replaced GOTO - instead of marking where you wanted the jump at the location of the jump, you instead marked at at the location you jumped to.
Guaranteed unreadable. Worse than GOTO. And, hey, guess what, that's pretty much what exception handling is in 99% of implementations. The only way around it is to put one statement, and one statement only, in your try {... } block, and who does that?
No, the BDSM community's mantra is "safe, sane and consensual". PHP isn't safe, or sane, and many of us who have to program it do so with only minimal consent...
No, it wasn't. He was kicked out because his sexual proclivities include the domination of women, specifically. To quote Buytaert word-for-word:
Then he's a fucking moron, and he's going to be in for a shock when he gets condemned by the wider social justice community. Acting out Gorean fantasies doesn't mean you believe, in real life, in the subjugation of women any more than acting out Star Wars fantasies means you believe in The Force.
You are correct that traditionally it'd be conservatives making a stink about someones sexual proclivities. That has changed, and is no longer true
Conservatives still seem to be where the majority of attacks on sexual activities, especially non-"normal" sexual activities, comes from.
Do liberals do it? You'll find one or two, just as you'll find any large community has its outliers. But in reality, it's telling that the major schism that lead to the end of Second Wave Feminism and the birth of Third Wave was sex, and the degree to which Second Wave leaned towards prescribing right and wrong sexual behaviors, something unsustainable given human needs. Third Wave is known as "Sex positive", and it was the result of a sizable amount of debate involving everyone from sex workers to the BDSM community that drove Third Wave in that direction.
To put it another way: it's always been the case that the two groups have had people within them that want to control other people's sex lives. Liberals have traditionally done that less than Conservatives. And Liberals are less prescriptive than they were, not more.
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You should already the Windows Subsystem for Linux that if you're running Anniversary Edition (the previous version.) I use it every day - there are some minor issues with how it interprets symbolic links, but otherwise it seems pretty good. Shame there's no X11 on it though.
GNOME Classic was pretty awful the last time I checked (I was trying it under whatever the latest version of Fedora was in January of 2016.) Having to edit panels by using a web browser and browsing to an external website is patently ridiculous, for example. The applets are atrocious too - for example, why replace that simple visual workspace switcher from GNOME 2 with a menu?
My gut feeling is that Classic is an attempt to make people think "Oh, this isn't as good as I remember it, let me try GNOME Shell instead", but my view is it's awful and I'd rather try anything else.
Cinnamon is your best bet for a GTK3 desktop at this stage. I'm just unhappy with certain design decisions (the use of Webkit, running as root, with plugins enabled, for the DM being the most major.) But it generally works, is clean, pleasant to use, and is a real desktop. I just wish it had better 2 in 1 support.
Cinnamon is a traditional desktop. It can have as many virtual desktops as you want - it's pretty much GNOME 2 built with GNOME 3 technologies, cleaned up and looking much better. If by "Activities" you mean "Applications", they're either a single click or a categorized start menu away. They're not buried in massive full-screen giant icon panels.
Windows 8.x was discontinued by Microsoft and replaced with Windows 10, which you should try out some time - it essentially reverts back to the traditional desktop, complete with start menu. That's why you're seeing a reduction in the number of people installing Classic Shell - for most people, it doesn't really change Windows 10 that dramatically.
Microsoft found that the vast majority of people do, actually, want the traditional desktop.
Clinton got more votes than Trump. It's the states, not the people who elected Trump, and there's no "pioneering spirit" nonsense that really explains that given states are institutions, not people.
Yeah, and it all feels great until... until you want to add an applet to one of the bars. And then, amazingly, you have to load up Firefox, navigate to a website, and edit your bar from there. Note: I don't mean you download stuff from said website (though that happens too), I mean that's where you set up each applet.
The defaults on the distro I tried it with were pretty terrible too, so it wasn't as if changing the settings was some obscure thing only power users would want to do.
Cinnamon is what GNOME 3 should have been.
I actually have a plug-in for Cinnamon that does global menus, but it relies upon Unity being installed to work (presumably so that GNOME, QT, etc have the appropriate patches to redirect the menus.) So here's hoping future Ubuntus will come with Unity - even if we don't use it.
I hope so, GNOME 3 really is awful, and I'm not seeing anything approaching mass adoption of it. Shuttleworth talks about the market picking it, but did it? Ubuntu users who were Unity skeptics didn't flock to GUbuntu, they flocked to Mint.
I wish Canonical had adopted Cinnamon instead. I think it's a desktop with a lot of potential, but it needs some good quality control (the fact the DM runs Webkit as root, including installed plugins, should tell you how much the Mint team cares about quality right now...) "The Market" seemed to be adopting Cinnamon and MATE. Where's this "adopting GNOME 3" thing coming from?
I'm not a huge fan of either desktop, but Unity seemed better thought out and closer to an ideal system than GNOME's "Re-invent everything but for no apparent reason" approach.
I guess I'll stick to Cinnamon for now. I just wish someone would put together a good GNU/Linux 2:1 desktop.
Yes, but the entire system is more expensive than bus rides. Transit is meant to be efficient, a system that essentially requires suburban infrastructure (including, essentially, a ban on walkable development) is never going to be efficient - and so will never be priced reasonably.
Add that to the fact they're hitching their wagon to a company heading towards bankruptcy, and, well, you have to wonder...
Yeah, we all read, and your argument still doesn't hold water. The only reason why, for example, the IRA isn't responsible for more terror in Britain than IS*/AQ this decade is because the IRA is more or less defunct.
Even in the US, Islamic terrorists are hardly responsible for 95% of terror attacks or deaths - white supremacists - just as one example - make up a significant proportion of attacks, even today. Muslims (and non-Muslims who belong to religions involving head dresses) have also been repeatedly been the subject of terror attacks by people who think like you in the US.
Are you going to call for white supremacists to be deported? That'd be amusing...
Good job they ditched the PowerPC architecture so their hardware would no longer fall behind mainstream PCs ;-)
The Millennials/hipsters are using the word as it's been used for decades, probably centuries. Vintage has been a synonym for antique for as long as I remember - Vintage Car Rallies are not a new millennial thing, for example.
"Extremely famous and influential computer company that's not significantly updated its major computer lines in five years to announce replacement models" is a fairly reasonable item to put on the front page. If this were about Apple releasing new earbuds, I'd agree, but it isn't.
Anyone who buys Yahoo is buying it for the brand, however tarnished it might be. Building a webmail system, news aggregator, and search engine front end (using Bing or Google as the back end, who'd be delighted to work for you) is relatively cheap and easy these days. What takes effort and huge amounts of marketing dollars is to get people to visit mail.oath.com, my.aoth.com, etc, and have them sign up and keep coming back.
I really don't think Verizon is buying Yahoo simply to run some kind of marketing stunt to get people to forget about it. Why bother? Why buy Yahoo if your aim isn't to buy an existing user base?
Linux is, and always was, just the kernel. It always was strange that so many insisted on naming the entire operating system after just one component, still more so the mental gymnastics people would go through to justify it. And the development of Android meant there really wasn't an excuse any more to continue with it - here was an operating system entirely unlike GNU/Linux in any form, and it too used the Linux kernel.
Seriously, this has been a problem since Netscape first implemented alert(). Why has it taken this long for someone to fix it?
But yeah, begging for money via the Internet works too, I guess.
I've yet to see anyone routinely slapped with the SJW label who supports Drupal's actions here. It might be because kink-shaming is actually anti-social justice. But you'll never get the Gamergate/MRA/Alt-Reichters that infest Slashdot these days to admit that.
No, she's never said anything remotely similar. In fact, most of her videos start with her, fruitlessly apparently, pointing out it's totally OK to enjoy media that has themes that could be critiqued.
The only people who have told us we need to vote for science fiction books on the basis of the ideologies they represent are the two puppies groups, who were formed because they didn't like the opinions implied or expressed by recent Hugo winners, winners selected by over 10,000 ordinary science fiction readers. Worldcon is not one of the puppies groups.
It sounds, to me, that you're living in the right wing bubble, where people tell each other nonsense about liberals, and even do the exact things they claim not to do. When was the last time a Sarkeesian critic saw a game with, say, a black medieval knight or a transgender galactic gunslinger, and said "I'm totally fine with that and not going to complain at all, I personally don't like games like that, but I appreciate there's an audience for people who do"?
Computers do not read logs, nor do they parse stack traces. If you're at the point you're reading a log or stack trace, then there's obviously a serious problem with your code. Subtle problems are likely to never appear.
Alas. Yes.
Because structurally it encourages developers to hide issues rather than handle them at the time. Exceptions are rarely exceptional, they're thrown over common situations such as files not existing or servers not responding with data over a network.
Really we need to rethink what we use exceptions for - and, indeed, if we should have them at all.
I don't believe this one is a mandatory upgrade - Anniversary Edition wasn't, for example, and this is the same level of upgrade.
Meh, I've witnessed awful treatment of women in the industry and never worked anywhere near SV.
Remember that stat, that 25% of women in colleges have been sexually assaulted? How initially it seems unbelievable because, hey, you wouldn't, and I wouldn't, and most men you know wouldn't, so how can that be?
The reason it's likely true is that it doesn't a huge proportion of men to be assholes for a disproportionate number of women to be affected. If, say, 2-5% of men in college think it's OK to touch women inappropriately and non-consensually in environments in which they can get away with it, and you assume each of them gets away with it, and so assaults multiple women, then, wow, you're up to 25% of college women being sexually assaulted pretty quickly.
And the same is true in businesses. Leaving aside institutional and structural problems - which exist everywhere - it doesn't really take a lot of male employees to be assholes, showing a level of disrespect for women they'd never show to men, for women to be disproportionately affected.
One office I worked for had such a person. As in every male member of the programming team knew he hated women, and that the extremely qualified, hard working, smart woman working with him was being treated like shit solely because she was a woman, and neither young nor blonde enough to make him at least be chivalrous to her as compensation.
To my and my coworkers shame we never did anything about it. We didn't talk to him about it, we continued to treat him as a - distant, perhaps - friends. We didn't talk to management about it. "G is strong", we told ourselves, "She doesn't put up with his bullshit", and, well, yeah, but bullying is bullying, and working in that environment wears down the strongest of all of us.
It's getting a lot of press in SV right now because SV is the hub of the tech industry, and has sizable number of progressives involved in it. But the idea it's limited to SV is absurd, that'd be to assume either that base human behavior (because there'll always be sexism) somehow is under control elsewhere, or that management skills have developed to a remarkable level outside of SV.
I honestly can't remember the last time I used an explicit GOTO. That said, exception handling in most programming languages seems to actually be worse and I've used that.
Some time ago, someone proposed a spoof programming language, whose name temporarily escapes me, that included just about every bad idea possible. This included a "COMEFROM" structure that replaced GOTO - instead of marking where you wanted the jump at the location of the jump, you instead marked at at the location you jumped to.
Guaranteed unreadable. Worse than GOTO. And, hey, guess what, that's pretty much what exception handling is in 99% of implementations. The only way around it is to put one statement, and one statement only, in your try { ... } block, and who does that?
No, the BDSM community's mantra is "safe, sane and consensual". PHP isn't safe, or sane, and many of us who have to program it do so with only minimal consent...
Then he's a fucking moron, and he's going to be in for a shock when he gets condemned by the wider social justice community. Acting out Gorean fantasies doesn't mean you believe, in real life, in the subjugation of women any more than acting out Star Wars fantasies means you believe in The Force.
Conservatives still seem to be where the majority of attacks on sexual activities, especially non-"normal" sexual activities, comes from.
Do liberals do it? You'll find one or two, just as you'll find any large community has its outliers. But in reality, it's telling that the major schism that lead to the end of Second Wave Feminism and the birth of Third Wave was sex, and the degree to which Second Wave leaned towards prescribing right and wrong sexual behaviors, something unsustainable given human needs. Third Wave is known as "Sex positive", and it was the result of a sizable amount of debate involving everyone from sex workers to the BDSM community that drove Third Wave in that direction.
To put it another way: it's always been the case that the two groups have had people within them that want to control other people's sex lives. Liberals have traditionally done that less than Conservatives. And Liberals are less prescriptive than they were, not more.