People are moving to Linux. Whether you want them to or not is out of your control.
lol. Christ... What is it with people thinking I don't want anyone using Linux? Could you possibly distort my stance any further?
I, personally, want to use Linux, not shape every damn aspect of its existence on my system, but I do like tweaking and customizing where I feel I need to. I don't want to be beholden to "the beast" as much as the next guy, but as it is right now, desktop Linux, as far as it's come, still has quite a ways to go in my opinion.
I'm just tired of hearing all of this, "Oh yeah, it's ready," hype when... it's just not. And I'm not even your average user...
And that is what is so awesome about Linux. You can build an OS for almost any purpose and almost any situation.
Right. I'm not your average user, but neither am I Linux systems administrator. Most distros seem to be appropriate for one of those two people.
I like that Ubuntu just works. However, I'd like to play around with it, customize the kernel and packages, but I can't do that and expect to keep the system up-to-date automatically without apt-get blowing shit up.
I absolutely love that I can do this in Gentoo. I'm willing to put up with the time-consuming install process (eventhough many of the steps are so trivial that they could be automated, only asking a few questions of the user), but there comes a point where I hit a brick wall. "Why isn't my USB stick auto-mounting?" "Ok, it's auto-mounting now, but why isn't the icon appearing on the desktop?" "Why does the gdm login screen take a full second to paint from top to bottom?" "Why isn't fglrx working as non-root?" I just don't what packages are necessary, their descriptions are woefully lacking, and despite the claims of Gentoo's "awesome" community, I've been disappointed with the lack of answers to these questions. (I actually, eventually, figured out the answer to that last question on my own, and it wasn't in any documentation.)
Basically, I'm looking for a cross between Gentoo and Ubuntu: source-based, just works (minimal initial config, but with the option to tweak to your heart's content), stuff like that...
A source based portage Ubuntu is impossible by definition, unless I completely misunderstand what you mean.
Nah, you got it, and I figured as much, which is why I'm extremely disappointed. It seems the vast majority of Linux distros/projects are more concerned with carving out their own little niche rather than collaborating on something that could be truly awesome.
Your entitled to your opinion, but please don't inform the rest of us who have been using desktop Linux that we shouldn't because it isn't ready.
He said no such thing...
Maybe you should stick to Windows and leave Linux for the rest of us?
Then, please... don't try to convince "average users" that Linux is ready for the desktop. Doing so and then telling anyone who disagrees to "go away" is disgraceful.
Actually, I do. I've played with Ubuntu and even Gentoo. There were things I liked about both, and things I didn't. I'm thinking of giving Mandriva a swing and I'll be checking out the next release of Ubuntu when it goes final.
Something I'd like to see is a source-based Ubuntu using Portage, but that's just me. That *choice* doesn't seem available to me without some serious surgery, and that's the problem.
Things don't have to be as fucked up as Windows to be as easy as Windows. That's where your brain seems to take that fated dive you so eloquently expressed...
If it was really about choice, you could have your "No Girls Allowed" complexity, while I have my "I Just Want To Get Shit Done And Play Around A Little Bit" simplicity.
It's people like you that are preventing this, and I see no amusment in that.
I believe that the main reasons that people have choosen linux over microsoft is the same reason I have, choice.
I don't buy it.
What I see in this frenzy of providing choice is the community running in 100 different directions, only some of which can be considered "forward". Most projects seems bent on attempting to reinvent the wheel, so to speak.
The numerous Linux distros are a perfect example. Some in the community call it choice, but when the only significant differences are the package manager, configuration tool(s), and available packages, it's really just a huge clusterfuck; one group trying to out reinvent the other group, and hoping they come up with something better in the process.
The world doesn't need Mandriva Linux, and Ubuntu Linux, and RedHat Linux... it just needs Linux. Period.
The Linux community lacks focus, and thus traction. It may be gaining ground slowly, but the potential is far greater...
The day I am allowed to crack into Microsoft's code base and change it all into Linux is the day Windows-deadheads have the right to take over my Linux and turn it into a Windows clone.
I'm sorry, but what happened to "choice"? Oh, right... your choice, not mine.
If you're representative of the community at large, God help Linux...
About the only thing which distinguishes any given flavour of Linux from any other is the configuration tools. [...] I think it might be rather hard for say, Mandrake to compete with RedHat if the only selling point they had was "We've tweaked some of the background images you get in KDE slightly".
Which, in all honesty, seems like a huge fucking waste of resources.
Regardless of what they say, yhe big names in the Linux community seem so much more bent on creating something "different" rather than something "excellent". Maybe one of them will get it right eventually, but wouldn't it just be better for everyone if they worked toward a common "cause"?
People point to the numerous Linux distros and shout, "Choice!" but I and many others only see needless fracturing. The Linux community's idea of "choice" is running in 100 different directions, most of which just try to re-invent the wheel, and only some of which are "forward".
Comes a vacuum, as posters retreat who aren't criminals but have reasonable fears of retribution, and a clear need for anonymity...
I don't know... People might actually have to start actively fighting for their rights instead of talking about fighting for their rights.
I think it's already a sad state of affairs when people think they have to fight for anonymity as a right, as if it's the only way they think they can speak freely.
When the other person is the VP of the US - and a very influential entity in the high end business world - a favor is worth a little more than "hey can I borrow $20.00?"
That doesn't exactly answer my question, though, does it?
Cheney shot the guy. How does thatnot guarantee some sort of "favor", yet apologizing for being shotwould. Answer: it wouldn't, and shouldn't. It's totally unecessary. Cheny owes Whittington, regardless of his apology.
If Dick Cheney shot me by accident, I would appologize too. There is nothing like having a VP owe you a favor.
Why the hell would you need to apologize for getting shot in face, just so the other person owes you a favor? I would think the actual shooting would be enough.
Man, that statement of yours just completely baffles me...
Zonk posted the article. Just like the completely misleadingly-excerpted Apple one earlier. Are you surprised?
Slashdot's always seemed to need at least one editor that can stir up the crowd. Initelligent design? Fine. Global warming? Fine. Blame Google for allowing our employees to turn on a feature that's off by default? This is just fucking retarded.
Such obvious nonsense just leads to bitching about the editor instead of any meaningful discussion about the topic itself, because there is no meaningful discussion about topics like this.
And don't even bother crying about how we could just remove that checkmark next to Zonk's name in our preferences. This goes a bit beyond just not liking the type of stories Zonk posts; this is a problem.
Slashdot doesn't need this....or does it?
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Obviously some kind of limit would need to be in place to keep people from hopscotching all over (say, 1 transfer a month or something), but since the service is literally falling down sometimes, it is only fair to allow players to load-balance themselves, and for free, in a reasonable way.
I thought the method Square Enix implemented with Final Fantasy XI was pretty decent. When you create your first character, you were randomly assigned to a server. Subsequent character creations under your account defaulted to the same server.
Unfortunately, it kind of screws over friends who want to play on the same server. One of them has to create their character first and the others have to wait until the first person makes enough gil to purchase a World Pass. That could take up to a week. The other option was to keep going through the creation process until you hit the same server as your friend. That took less time, but could be quite frustrating.
If you need your document to look the same wherever it goes, use a format that's designed to do that, like pdf or ps.
See, it wasn't my document. If it was, it wouldn't have been in a Word format. There are people outside of our circle of geekery, and we can't control their choices. People seem to forget that all too often...
100% compatability with Word Documents. Just last night I opened up a 37 page document in OpenOffice for some simple modification. It came out at 39 pages. Wtf? Somehow it either fucked up the page breaks, the margins, or some spacing in the content; I don't know. Rather than deal with it or hope it wouldn't save the document in this obviously screwed up interpretation, I re-installed my copy of Office XP.
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I, personally, want to use Linux, not shape every damn aspect of its existence on my system, but I do like tweaking and customizing where I feel I need to. I don't want to be beholden to "the beast" as much as the next guy, but as it is right now, desktop Linux, as far as it's come, still has quite a ways to go in my opinion.
I'm just tired of hearing all of this, "Oh yeah, it's ready," hype when... it's just not. And I'm not even your average user...
I like that Ubuntu just works. However, I'd like to play around with it, customize the kernel and packages, but I can't do that and expect to keep the system up-to-date automatically without apt-get blowing shit up.
I absolutely love that I can do this in Gentoo. I'm willing to put up with the time-consuming install process (eventhough many of the steps are so trivial that they could be automated, only asking a few questions of the user), but there comes a point where I hit a brick wall. "Why isn't my USB stick auto-mounting?" "Ok, it's auto-mounting now, but why isn't the icon appearing on the desktop?" "Why does the gdm login screen take a full second to paint from top to bottom?" "Why isn't fglrx working as non-root?" I just don't what packages are necessary, their descriptions are woefully lacking, and despite the claims of Gentoo's "awesome" community, I've been disappointed with the lack of answers to these questions. (I actually, eventually, figured out the answer to that last question on my own, and it wasn't in any documentation.)
Basically, I'm looking for a cross between Gentoo and Ubuntu: source-based, just works (minimal initial config, but with the option to tweak to your heart's content), stuff like that...
Then, please... don't try to convince "average users" that Linux is ready for the desktop. Doing so and then telling anyone who disagrees to "go away" is disgraceful.
Something I'd like to see is a source-based Ubuntu using Portage, but that's just me. That *choice* doesn't seem available to me without some serious surgery, and that's the problem.
Things don't have to be as fucked up as Windows to be as easy as Windows. That's where your brain seems to take that fated dive you so eloquently expressed...
If it was really about choice, you could have your "No Girls Allowed" complexity, while I have my "I Just Want To Get Shit Done And Play Around A Little Bit" simplicity.
It's people like you that are preventing this, and I see no amusment in that.
What I see in this frenzy of providing choice is the community running in 100 different directions, only some of which can be considered "forward". Most projects seems bent on attempting to reinvent the wheel, so to speak.
The numerous Linux distros are a perfect example. Some in the community call it choice, but when the only significant differences are the package manager, configuration tool(s), and available packages, it's really just a huge clusterfuck; one group trying to out reinvent the other group, and hoping they come up with something better in the process.
The world doesn't need Mandriva Linux, and Ubuntu Linux, and RedHat Linux... it just needs Linux. Period.
The Linux community lacks focus, and thus traction. It may be gaining ground slowly, but the potential is far greater...
If you're representative of the community at large, God help Linux...
Regardless of what they say, yhe big names in the Linux community seem so much more bent on creating something "different" rather than something "excellent". Maybe one of them will get it right eventually, but wouldn't it just be better for everyone if they worked toward a common "cause"?
People point to the numerous Linux distros and shout, "Choice!" but I and many others only see needless fracturing. The Linux community's idea of "choice" is running in 100 different directions, most of which just try to re-invent the wheel, and only some of which are "forward".
It's truly a shame...
I think it's already a sad state of affairs when people think they have to fight for anonymity as a right, as if it's the only way they think they can speak freely.
Cheney shot the guy. How does that not guarantee some sort of "favor", yet apologizing for being shot would. Answer: it wouldn't, and shouldn't. It's totally unecessary. Cheny owes Whittington, regardless of his apology.
Man, that statement of yours just completely baffles me...
Such obvious nonsense just leads to bitching about the editor instead of any meaningful discussion about the topic itself, because there is no meaningful discussion about topics like this.
And don't even bother crying about how we could just remove that checkmark next to Zonk's name in our preferences. This goes a bit beyond just not liking the type of stories Zonk posts; this is a problem.
Slashdot doesn't need this.
Unfortunately, it kind of screws over friends who want to play on the same server. One of them has to create their character first and the others have to wait until the first person makes enough gil to purchase a World Pass. That could take up to a week. The other option was to keep going through the creation process until you hit the same server as your friend. That took less time, but could be quite frustrating.
Still, it beat sitting in a queue...
Almost as good as the "Jump to Conclusions" mat...
No, lethargy is not the barrier here. The real barrier is the community itself (or at least certain members of it).
100% compatability with Word Documents. Just last night I opened up a 37 page document in OpenOffice for some simple modification. It came out at 39 pages. Wtf? Somehow it either fucked up the page breaks, the margins, or some spacing in the content; I don't know. Rather than deal with it or hope it wouldn't save the document in this obviously screwed up interpretation, I re-installed my copy of Office XP.