It really depends. What do you want out of your desktop. If you want it to "just work", stick with the default mint desktop, and let automatic updates simply update your machine when it tells you.
Firefox and chromium work just as well on linux as windows, and those are your only too browsers that you should give a fuck about. Also, VLC is in most major repos, and works just as well on linux.
Stick with mint. In fact. I'd simply install the LTS version, and upgrade when you change PCs.
Here seems to be the game plan going back as least as far as the Salem Witch Trials. Lets find people who are already ostracized from society and blame them for societies ills.
No need to worry about some pro-athletes beating or murdering people, or frat boys in their perpetual rape and disorderly conduct sprees. Just find someone on the skirts of society to blame.
no, this is typical psychology industry creating problems to solve.
notably absent from the studies are frat boys, pop stars, pro-athletes, or anyone who has objectively worse behavior but makes more money to the system.
I mean we could have said athletics have a rape and violence problem, but the media tends to blur it into "all men do this".
The event, sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, featured cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and scheduled speakers included Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who has campaigned to have the Quran banned in the Netherlands.
so aparantly they don't really care about freedom. The irony is biting. Cut off your nose to spite your face. While I certainly believe its OK to draw Muhammad, even lampoon him.(along with any and all other religeous figures) and in fact I promote it, you're a total hypocrit if you want to ban the koran. In fact you've proved your just as crazy as the gunman.
This cycle's slate of republican canidates is so packed with FAIL is unbelievable. Most tollerable in the pack is....Rand Paul, who at least gets a handful of things right. But put her next to Ted "Obamacare for the internet" Cruz, and of course yet another member of the Bush family. Yes Jeb is looking to run in 2016.
To the extent that Ubuntu provides a stable enough base for distros like Mint to base off of - giving users the confidence that Ubuntu-targeted apps will work on Mint as well, Ubuntu's done its job admirably.
which is far more debian's doing than Ubuntu. Debian are the real people who make an operating system out of parts, and do most of the heavy lifting of stiching it all together
Mir is problematic, and if it introduces enough incompatibility to Ubuntu packages, that could force other distros to re-fork off of something else (or continue on based on a pre-Mir base). Hopefully, Wayland will become viable long enough before Mir does that the two efforts can ultimately merge
Like most other failed needless canonical projects, bazar and upstart, its going to be abandoned, and Ubuntu will eventually run wayland. Which is what Canonical could have done in the first place, perhaps contributed to the development of wayland, which could have helped reduce the amount of time it takes to get it in release condition.
Many of those not liking systemd are in the higher competence class
in your dreams. If you where you'd make a non-systemd distro that doesn't suck. Most of you who hate systemd are loudmouths who aren't half as compitant as you think you are, because 90% of your anti-systemd complaints are entirely unfounded. First rate conspitard grade crap.
I had a few technical gripes with Ubuntu, but lets ignore the technical failings, and just assume that all critiques are purely social, because well, you want them to be. But remember, these people are nerds not writers or soft scientists, so the fair amount of projection about their motives can stay put. Some real reasons I frown on Ubuntu:
1. build quality of 14.xx was utter crap. It crashed more than windows.
2. Unity had some privacy issues with sending user search data to paying partners automaticly(amazon).
3. Canonical doesn't like to give back upstream. Before you say anything, there are many companies that do wonderful things for the kernel, GNU, and related bits and pieces to make the magic happen. The two biggest contributors being Intel and Red Hat, but linux has a lot of very large corporate heavy hitters world wide contributing great things. After not giving back, the CEO and founder Mark Shuttleworth talks a lot of shit about the people who are actually doing most of the real work. MIR/Wayland is the latest fiasco. instead of contributing to wayland, they decided to make their own graphics server, which ultimately will only be used by them. The supposed cause of wayland not being advanced enough turned out to be bogus, as RH will likely ship fedora with wayland default long before Canonical does a MIR default Ubuntu. Oh yeah. Speaking of Red Hat, not only do they make a rock solid distro, they contribute back, and oh, they still manage to turn a profit, something Canonical seems unable to do.
4. previous versions of Unity where dog slow, but they've seemed to have gotten better.
For the non-technical, I recommend Mint, which was forked from Ubuntu, and contains most of the good n00b friendly stuff from ubuntu. It goes down easy and it "Just works". The best part is I can "OEM Install" it, so I can put it as the default OS on computers I fix up and give away, and not have to worry about pirated copies of windows, or the non-techies getting all confuzzled.
the Internet itself was a DARPA project for its first two decades of existance. Better stop using that as well, just to be sure...
The fact the goverment funds it doesn't mean the government has a backdoor. After all, the most talented hackers and programmers are notorious for having ethics the rest of the proffesional world lacks when it comes to corruption.
Speaking of clearnet, that too is known to be tapped by the government. I wonder what your alternative is?
well, I know who I'm not voting for in the presidential elections. I guess he didn't care to distance himself from Ted "Obamacare for the Internet" Cruz.
The day of the internet savy republican voting libertarian is now officially over.
Someday we'll have robots doing all the work, and then things will be great (as long as we can share the benefit of that sufficiently)
See you almost got it. you forgot a big capital bold IF before the "as long as we can share it", for some reason that is in parenthesis as if its an after thought, when in fact thats the main point of contention. That big capital bold faced IF is the major point of contention, because as long as capitalism exists, and the workers do not own the robots, that IF statement is going to fail.
Then what follows is that arguing for even the slightest abatement from capitalism will get you flagged as an extremist, terrist, and almost universally opposed and perhaps framed, jailed, reputation ruined by the massive suriallence state which is set up for the exact purpose of maintaining capitalism. So before you talk in big bold tall IF statements, think about how likely the $true condition is, and what would be needed to achievement before you brush it off as trivial.
Except Snowden outed himself to give the leaks credibility.
otherwise it would have collected dust along with other leaked volumes and no one would have taken it seriously. He knew this, we know this. Thats how this country works. We don't like facts, we like celebrities.
Why can't we simply replace them with robots like we do with strawberry pickers.
I mean after all we are saving them from the terrible teenagers, the grief and stress. Its a job that most people don't want to do. So lets simply replace them with robots.
Its the generic excuse when they introduce machines that put people out of work, or introduce lower paid non-union labor, or do something else that drags wages down. I for one, am sick of this pseudo-'leftist' language being used to justify driving down the price of labor, and putting people out of work.
Once again, the article is about snowden, not what he revealed. Can we get back to talking about the real issues, and that is the contents of what snowden revealed, because most of it is pretty damning.
the problem with this country is we don't talk about issues, we talk about people, and who is and isn't a good person, and we don't talk about policy, and what is just policy. Half of it is celebrity culture, and how public relations and the press games reputation by pushing your emotional buttons.
They also use this in dogwhistle politics. For example, niether party is really ended the wars, stopping the mass surviallence, or ending the security state or warrantless wiretaps, but they use the "good guy/bad guy" image to get Americans to swallow otherwise bad policy because it comes from a source they are conditioned to accept.
But again, who cares about snowden, lets instead talk about what he revealed, because he has some pretty hard proof, and its some pretty glaring contradictions between US policy and rhetoric.
to be honest, you are little better. You are still insinuating that the original theorm that tinkering with modern day cars is somehow more dangerous than in previous generations, something which is false. Noted are all the dangerous checmicals and subsystems that existed in cars long before a CPU ever came around.
again, false. The dichotomy between freedom and saftey is nothing more than police state propaganda to get you into giving up freedoms.
You aren't more safe by giving up your freedoms. You're giving control over your life to someone else. You are in fact less safe, because you assume this other people has good intentions which is almost never the case.
What if onboard vehicle computers truthfully are (or soon will become) so complicated - and so integral to the functioning of the vehicle - that an untrained hobbyist screwing with it could cause injury or death?
Thats a pretty strong "what if". In the age of makerbots, audrinos, and people doing all kinds of do it yourself projects, its a very unreasonable assumption.
Besides, since the beginning, cars run on gasoline(nasty cacernogenic high explosive liquid), and use spark plugs(millions of volts), and other dangerous parts, yet people still live.
People have been doing far more dangerous mods like cutting off pollution controls, and running high compression engines that could blow apart for decades.
don't even get me started about the deathtrap 70s erra motorcycle choppers people used to ride.
I see nothing new about today's cars that changes anything.
In fact I generally find cars quite boring.
aka, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about
But I find Slashdot even more boring when nobody attempts to find merit in a contrary opinion...
When everyone is in agreement with a position you don't like its a "circle jerk", but when its with something you do like, its "common sense".
Slashdot Mirror
Kim Dotcom and Jullian Assange are a fuckton more credible than 90% of US pundits and politicians.
Firefox and chromium work just as well on linux as windows, and those are your only too browsers that you should give a fuck about. Also, VLC is in most major repos, and works just as well on linux.
Stick with mint. In fact. I'd simply install the LTS version, and upgrade when you change PCs.
No need to worry about some pro-athletes beating or murdering people, or frat boys in their perpetual rape and disorderly conduct sprees. Just find someone on the skirts of society to blame.
notably absent from the studies are frat boys, pop stars, pro-athletes, or anyone who has objectively worse behavior but makes more money to the system.
I mean we could have said athletics have a rape and violence problem, but the media tends to blur it into "all men do this".
What Red Hat and the systemd crowd doesn't want to here is that most users that care do not want systemd.
What the anti-systemd crowd doesn't seem to get is that they are not most users. As far as the old init system, it needed to go.
I currently use many distros that run systemd to include a RH7 derrivative, and I can only say good things about it.
I fucking hate it when some doosh politician, lawyer, or communications major type keeps bringing up how profit motive makes everyone tick.
They've basicly projected their own greed and psychopathic tendencies on everyone else.
occasionally big industrial firms
mostly spied on big industrial firms for other big industrial firms who where paying moonlighting employees.
The event, sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, featured cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and scheduled speakers included Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who has campaigned to have the Quran banned in the Netherlands.
so aparantly they don't really care about freedom. The irony is biting. Cut off your nose to spite your face. While I certainly believe its OK to draw Muhammad, even lampoon him.(along with any and all other religeous figures) and in fact I promote it, you're a total hypocrit if you want to ban the koran. In fact you've proved your just as crazy as the gunman.
This cycle's slate of republican canidates is so packed with FAIL is unbelievable. Most tollerable in the pack is....Rand Paul, who at least gets a handful of things right. But put her next to Ted "Obamacare for the internet" Cruz, and of course yet another member of the Bush family. Yes Jeb is looking to run in 2016.
To the extent that Ubuntu provides a stable enough base for distros like Mint to base off of - giving users the confidence that Ubuntu-targeted apps will work on Mint as well, Ubuntu's done its job admirably.
which is far more debian's doing than Ubuntu. Debian are the real people who make an operating system out of parts, and do most of the heavy lifting of stiching it all together
Mir is problematic, and if it introduces enough incompatibility to Ubuntu packages, that could force other distros to re-fork off of something else (or continue on based on a pre-Mir base). Hopefully, Wayland will become viable long enough before Mir does that the two efforts can ultimately merge
Like most other failed needless canonical projects, bazar and upstart, its going to be abandoned, and Ubuntu will eventually run wayland. Which is what Canonical could have done in the first place, perhaps contributed to the development of wayland, which could have helped reduce the amount of time it takes to get it in release condition.
Many of those not liking systemd are in the higher competence class
in your dreams. If you where you'd make a non-systemd distro that doesn't suck. Most of you who hate systemd are loudmouths who aren't half as compitant as you think you are, because 90% of your anti-systemd complaints are entirely unfounded. First rate conspitard grade crap.
noobs deserve freedom too.
Also, I recommend mint for noobs. Much easier, less fail.
1. build quality of 14.xx was utter crap. It crashed more than windows.
2. Unity had some privacy issues with sending user search data to paying partners automaticly(amazon).
3. Canonical doesn't like to give back upstream. Before you say anything, there are many companies that do wonderful things for the kernel, GNU, and related bits and pieces to make the magic happen. The two biggest contributors being Intel and Red Hat, but linux has a lot of very large corporate heavy hitters world wide contributing great things. After not giving back, the CEO and founder Mark Shuttleworth talks a lot of shit about the people who are actually doing most of the real work. MIR/Wayland is the latest fiasco. instead of contributing to wayland, they decided to make their own graphics server, which ultimately will only be used by them. The supposed cause of wayland not being advanced enough turned out to be bogus, as RH will likely ship fedora with wayland default long before Canonical does a MIR default Ubuntu. Oh yeah. Speaking of Red Hat, not only do they make a rock solid distro, they contribute back, and oh, they still manage to turn a profit, something Canonical seems unable to do.
4. previous versions of Unity where dog slow, but they've seemed to have gotten better.
For the non-technical, I recommend Mint, which was forked from Ubuntu, and contains most of the good n00b friendly stuff from ubuntu. It goes down easy and it "Just works". The best part is I can "OEM Install" it, so I can put it as the default OS on computers I fix up and give away, and not have to worry about pirated copies of windows, or the non-techies getting all confuzzled.
The fact the goverment funds it doesn't mean the government has a backdoor. After all, the most talented hackers and programmers are notorious for having ethics the rest of the proffesional world lacks when it comes to corruption.
Speaking of clearnet, that too is known to be tapped by the government. I wonder what your alternative is?
well, I know who I'm not voting for in the presidential elections. I guess he didn't care to distance himself from Ted "Obamacare for the Internet" Cruz.
The day of the internet savy republican voting libertarian is now officially over.
Someday we'll have robots doing all the work, and then things will be great (as long as we can share the benefit of that sufficiently)
See you almost got it. you forgot a big capital bold IF before the "as long as we can share it", for some reason that is in parenthesis as if its an after thought, when in fact thats the main point of contention. That big capital bold faced IF is the major point of contention, because as long as capitalism exists, and the workers do not own the robots, that IF statement is going to fail.
Then what follows is that arguing for even the slightest abatement from capitalism will get you flagged as an extremist, terrist, and almost universally opposed and perhaps framed, jailed, reputation ruined by the massive suriallence state which is set up for the exact purpose of maintaining capitalism. So before you talk in big bold tall IF statements, think about how likely the $true condition is, and what would be needed to achievement before you brush it off as trivial.
Except Snowden outed himself to give the leaks credibility. otherwise it would have collected dust along with other leaked volumes and no one would have taken it seriously. He knew this, we know this. Thats how this country works. We don't like facts, we like celebrities.
I mean after all we are saving them from the terrible teenagers, the grief and stress. Its a job that most people don't want to do. So lets simply replace them with robots.
Its the generic excuse when they introduce machines that put people out of work, or introduce lower paid non-union labor, or do something else that drags wages down. I for one, am sick of this pseudo-'leftist' language being used to justify driving down the price of labor, and putting people out of work.
the problem with this country is we don't talk about issues, we talk about people, and who is and isn't a good person, and we don't talk about policy, and what is just policy. Half of it is celebrity culture, and how public relations and the press games reputation by pushing your emotional buttons.
They also use this in dogwhistle politics. For example, niether party is really ended the wars, stopping the mass surviallence, or ending the security state or warrantless wiretaps, but they use the "good guy/bad guy" image to get Americans to swallow otherwise bad policy because it comes from a source they are conditioned to accept.
But again, who cares about snowden, lets instead talk about what he revealed, because he has some pretty hard proof, and its some pretty glaring contradictions between US policy and rhetoric.
to be honest, you are little better. You are still insinuating that the original theorm that tinkering with modern day cars is somehow more dangerous than in previous generations, something which is false. Noted are all the dangerous checmicals and subsystems that existed in cars long before a CPU ever came around.
You aren't more safe by giving up your freedoms. You're giving control over your life to someone else. You are in fact less safe, because you assume this other people has good intentions which is almost never the case.
What if onboard vehicle computers truthfully are (or soon will become) so complicated - and so integral to the functioning of the vehicle - that an untrained hobbyist screwing with it could cause injury or death?
Thats a pretty strong "what if". In the age of makerbots, audrinos, and people doing all kinds of do it yourself projects, its a very unreasonable assumption.
Besides, since the beginning, cars run on gasoline(nasty cacernogenic high explosive liquid), and use spark plugs(millions of volts), and other dangerous parts, yet people still live.
People have been doing far more dangerous mods like cutting off pollution controls, and running high compression engines that could blow apart for decades.
don't even get me started about the deathtrap 70s erra motorcycle choppers people used to ride.
I see nothing new about today's cars that changes anything.
In fact I generally find cars quite boring.
aka, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about
But I find Slashdot even more boring when nobody attempts to find merit in a contrary opinion...
When everyone is in agreement with a position you don't like its a "circle jerk", but when its with something you do like, its "common sense".
you simply get to use it, and the automaker gets a final say in how you use your car. good grief.
no need to put the iphone down, there is a camera there too, available to the same intellegence agencies.
one nation under durress.