Sometimes, there is no *good* open source alternative.
I use them whenever possible (dansguardian, squid, clamav, etc) but it's just not always the answer.
Not a popular opinion on/, but a reality nonetheless.
Like someone else before me said, the install base is too fragmented to have any meaningful inroads made into the consumer desktop market.
You have different installer types, package types, desktop window environments, cryptic command line commands, etc, etc, etc.
Yes I realize these things represent choice, which can be overwhelming for "the average user".
I tried a few different distros for home use and the best I found were Fedora and Ubuntu, but even they have their shortcomings.
Ubuntu is probably the closest thing to a unified consumer distribution I have seen.
I honestly base a consumer distro on how easy it is to set up printing.
Long story short, got tired of fighting with everything or finding some obscure forum post on how to enable something for fix something and switched to a Mac.
Cute.
If you had a profile you could click on it and see this on the top right:
http://i.imgur.com/2fPxv.png
I'll give the troll attempt a solid 2/10.
Also check out my 400,000s user number.
Good day sir, or madam.
Usually in journalism, if a question is asked in the headline, the answer is "no".
This case is not any different, the CLI is there if you need it, tucked away if you don't.
I don't get the point of this article.
When trying a new distro, I usually judge its usability in how easy it is to install a printer and then print to it.
That's generally my canary.
And also:
http://www.openprinting.org/printers
This is the same tired/. opinion piece which doesn't really engender much discussion, Apple has made it pretty accessible to make OS X and iPhone/iPod touch apps for about a decade. Any speculation about how locked a hypothetical merged OS would be is silly at best, and just serves as *Nix user FUD.
Those power plant generators have a ridiculously high cost and lead time, and if they do it right, you won't know who did it, so you'd be impotently waggling your spear at no one in particular.
urrite
I found this article to be poorly written and researched.
Including such weasely gems as:
For consumers, 4G means, in the ideal case, faster access to data. For instance, streaming video might work better, with less stuttering and higher resolution. Videoconferencing is difficult on 3G and might work better on 4G. Multiplayer video games may benefit too.
I think the main problem is all the third-party crap they allow to interface with your data, that they have no control over.
Would you pay for it rather than have your personal data sold/be bombarded by ads?
This was supposed to be the "micropayment revolution" that was all the rage 5 years ago.
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I'm not sure I understand the purpose of this article.
What?
Sometimes, there is no *good* open source alternative. I use them whenever possible (dansguardian, squid, clamav, etc) but it's just not always the answer. Not a popular opinion on /, but a reality nonetheless.
If it has to activate, there's a limit to how many times you can activate certain software with a key, even a VLK.
It's strong-arming if you vendor lock a customer than steeply raise rates. blah blah free market blah blah still an adversarial dick move.
It's an adage. Thanks though!
Oh you cheeky monkey.
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no"
Like someone else before me said, the install base is too fragmented to have any meaningful inroads made into the consumer desktop market. You have different installer types, package types, desktop window environments, cryptic command line commands, etc, etc, etc. Yes I realize these things represent choice, which can be overwhelming for "the average user". I tried a few different distros for home use and the best I found were Fedora and Ubuntu, but even they have their shortcomings. Ubuntu is probably the closest thing to a unified consumer distribution I have seen. I honestly base a consumer distro on how easy it is to set up printing. Long story short, got tired of fighting with everything or finding some obscure forum post on how to enable something for fix something and switched to a Mac.
Cute. If you had a profile you could click on it and see this on the top right: http://i.imgur.com/2fPxv.png I'll give the troll attempt a solid 2/10. Also check out my 400,000s user number. Good day sir, or madam.
I wish I had karma to spend on this.
Usually in journalism, if a question is asked in the headline, the answer is "no". This case is not any different, the CLI is there if you need it, tucked away if you don't. I don't get the point of this article.
When trying a new distro, I usually judge its usability in how easy it is to install a printer and then print to it. That's generally my canary. And also: http://www.openprinting.org/printers
If gold is so awesome, why do people accept actual money for it, why not just hoard it?
This is the same tired /. opinion piece which doesn't really engender much discussion, Apple has made it pretty accessible to make OS X and iPhone/iPod touch apps for about a decade. Any speculation about how locked a hypothetical merged OS would be is silly at best, and just serves as *Nix user FUD.
Those power plant generators have a ridiculously high cost and lead time, and if they do it right, you won't know who did it, so you'd be impotently waggling your spear at no one in particular.
"If you do hit a jackpot are they going to come up with another story? It's a malfunction? It's not right," Jim McMahon said.
What a crock of shit, I think they have a case.
There's quite a difference between geekery and a crippling condition such as this.
So they monetized it on their own, probably after testing it.
It's a giant bag of "what if".
Of course I did, since when is more speed not a good thing? Anyone with half a brain knows it's not going to slice their bread for them.
I found this article to be poorly written and researched. Including such weasely gems as:
For consumers, 4G means, in the ideal case, faster access to data. For instance, streaming video might work better, with less stuttering and higher resolution. Videoconferencing is difficult on 3G and might work better on 4G. Multiplayer video games may benefit too.
might may might maybe
we do not even have any real-world success stories to share.
"We didn't get hacked or release our entire customer database this month"
I think the main problem is all the third-party crap they allow to interface with your data, that they have no control over. Would you pay for it rather than have your personal data sold/be bombarded by ads? This was supposed to be the "micropayment revolution" that was all the rage 5 years ago.
Makes you wish for a -1 "mary sue"