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  1. Package management to the rescue on More Than Half of PC Applications Installed Worldwide Are Out-of-Date (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    That's one of the reasons I prefer Linux. Most major distributions have some kind of package manager that takes the burden of checking every application for updates from me. Just one command/click and every program is updated to the latest version. It can't get much easier than that. And if you are lazy and don't care you can let your distro even do the updates silently in the background.

  2. That's like, your opinion, man. E-mail push has been available for a while and worked perfectly fine. But the bigger problem is that often even periodic pull (setup to the interval I prefer) would not work unless you ripped out the power management "feature" from seven million different locations. And I would very much like a chat application that is totally independent of Google. Jabber is practically dead on Android because of the fucked up power management. It's ok for the OS to suspend overzealous background services. But please give me the ability to override that easily.

  3. Re:Monitors on Ubuntu Makes Public Desktop Metrics (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    4k support in Linux is very poor, unless you want to have everything be very tiny. There are some ways to get most of your system look quite nicely. But as soon as you add a second monitor without the high resolution everything falls apart. I'm currently running my shiny 4k screen at 1920x1080 because I have a second monitor at work that only goes that high. Wayland will hopefully make everything better.

  4. Re:Custom install on Ubuntu Makes Public Desktop Metrics (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    For me it's the other way around. Why do I need a swap partition? I'd rather use a swapmanager, like swapspace, which only creates a swap file when I need it.

  5. Re:RSS for the masses? on Digg Reader To Shut Down This Month -- Latest RSS Service To Bite the Dust (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have yet to find another means of keeping up to date with news from various sources without visiting them all one after another. This is especially useful for sites that don't update very often. My feedreader will just present me with new articles as soon as they are available. I don't know how I could do this without RSS.