Compare the user base of Linux 2.6.x from 2009 as a proportion of all Linux users, to the user base of Windows 7 as a proportion of all Windows users.
Should I draw you a picture?
For extra credit, consider the reasons why Linux users have happily moved on from Linux 2.6.x from 2009, but many Windows users are still using Windows 7.
While the performance of Flash is not on par with native compiled code, it still outperforms AJAX/HTML5 solutions by orders of magnitude.
Of course, one still needs to change the rendering quality to Medium from the default High, since the over-zealous anti-aliasing always makes the result slower than it should be.
But yes, there's no need to use it for video any more, and there is DEFINITELY no need for it in site navigation (nor has there ever been).
It's also funny that the most widely spread Linux distribution on the planet, Android, does not ship with the GNU tools and therefore truly is not GNU/Linux.
Did you warn them about Fukushima and Donald Trump?
Look, perhaps you associate with different people than I do, but the only times I have ever heard or read of anyone complaining that their phone is too big and heavy was in the 1990s when they really were big and heavy, and more recently when people were trying to use 8 inch phablets as phones.
I have however heard many, many, people complaining about battery life, or that the phone bends too easily, or is too small to find in a bag, etc.
Keep your RAID-1. It will protect against single disk failure and improve read performance.
Build a server. Just a little one. An old desktop PC will suffice. Put in a cheap SSD (64GB will do), and a 3 or 4 TB HDD. Install your OS of choice to the SSD (Debian, BSD, anything low maintenance). Write or procure a script on the server to rsync the contents of your desktop PC to the large HDD, with the --backup switch, rotating monthly. This way you get overwritten or deleted content put in another folder (usually the day of the month), so you get one month to recover accidentally deleted or overwritten files. Set this script such that it starts ten minutes after the server boots up, waits another ten minutes, then powers down. Set the server to Wake on Lan. Have your desktop PC (or other server if you have one) send a WoL magic packet to the server once a day. Turn off the server. If you ever need to retrieve anything, send a WoL packet to the server, wait for bootup, log in and kill the backup script (which should still be sleeping if you do it within 10 minutes).
I don't disagree with your overall assertion that this is newsworthy, but should point out that Windows 10 is nowhere near the most widely used OS in the world.
It isn't even the most widely used Microsoft desktop OS in the world.
And this is why cumulative, mandatory, updates are a BAD THING.
It's like they're not even trying now to hide it anymore. They have pretty much openly declared themselves to be hostile to users with a lot of forced updates that benefit not the user but themselves. But MS fanboys will still lap it up and somehow say it's a good thing.
Well to be fair their Opteron line until about four years ago was competing well with Xeons on performance and absolutely blew them away in terms of price and sheer number of cores.
Unfortunately that all changed with the Bulldozer architecture which, instead of cores, had "dual core" modules with one FPU shared between two ALUs.
Back in the early 90's, Wolfenstein 3D made a lot of people want to vomit too, because it was much more immersive than any *popular* game that came before it. And then people got over it.
Speaking as someone who actually enjoys 3D movies, partilcularly high frame rate 3D movies where you can actually track moving objects and scene pans, I have no problem wearing glasses if it leads to a more immersive experience.
Of course, I won't be buying into HoloLens specifically, as I do not purchase Microsoft products.
Ben Burtt (the sound editor) and a synthesizer did the R2D2 voice over.
Anthony Daniels wore the C3PO suit (he had to be skinny enough to fit it), and did the C3PO voice over.
Kenny Baker performed inside some of the R2D2 models - pretty much those that required complex movements that Radio Control technology of the time could not manage.
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Actually it pretty much is. Just dd the ISO to the flash drive and in most cases you have a bootable distro.
User base.
Compare the user base of Linux 2.6.x from 2009 as a proportion of all Linux users, to the user base of Windows 7 as a proportion of all Windows users.
Should I draw you a picture?
For extra credit, consider the reasons why Linux users have happily moved on from Linux 2.6.x from 2009, but many Windows users are still using Windows 7.
Games. Flash games.
While the performance of Flash is not on par with native compiled code, it still outperforms AJAX/HTML5 solutions by orders of magnitude.
Of course, one still needs to change the rendering quality to Medium from the default High, since the over-zealous anti-aliasing always makes the result slower than it should be.
But yes, there's no need to use it for video any more, and there is DEFINITELY no need for it in site navigation (nor has there ever been).
Funny. I haven't seen a lot of consumers asking for waterproof, sealed devices.
I have, however, seen phone companies telling me how much I apparently need one.
It's also funny that the most widely spread Linux distribution on the planet, Android, does not ship with the GNU tools and therefore truly is not GNU/Linux.
Nah, he'll just go break his little ships.
Just add these to the growing list of hardware that is Linux only.
It's usually older gear such as PCI cards or scanners that makes the list, so it's nice to have some newer CPUs on our side too.
Did you warn them about Fukushima and Donald Trump?
Look, perhaps you associate with different people than I do, but the only times I have ever heard or read of anyone complaining that their phone is too big and heavy was in the 1990s when they really were big and heavy, and more recently when people were trying to use 8 inch phablets as phones.
I have however heard many, many, people complaining about battery life, or that the phone bends too easily, or is too small to find in a bag, etc.
People complained about the bulk and weight of having a removable cover and another layer of hard plastic around the battery.
[citation needed]
Keep your RAID-1. It will protect against single disk failure and improve read performance.
Build a server. Just a little one. An old desktop PC will suffice.
Put in a cheap SSD (64GB will do), and a 3 or 4 TB HDD.
Install your OS of choice to the SSD (Debian, BSD, anything low maintenance).
Write or procure a script on the server to rsync the contents of your desktop PC to the large HDD, with the --backup switch, rotating monthly. This way you get overwritten or deleted content put in another folder (usually the day of the month), so you get one month to recover accidentally deleted or overwritten files.
Set this script such that it starts ten minutes after the server boots up, waits another ten minutes, then powers down.
Set the server to Wake on Lan.
Have your desktop PC (or other server if you have one) send a WoL magic packet to the server once a day.
Turn off the server.
If you ever need to retrieve anything, send a WoL packet to the server, wait for bootup, log in and kill the backup script (which should still be sleeping if you do it within 10 minutes).
Voila, cheap robust offline backup.
Oh, oh I have one:
He's waiting for September to end.
"just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu"
Which is funny, since there are likely more devices running Linux now than GNU/Linux, thanks to Android.
I don't disagree with your overall assertion that this is newsworthy, but should point out that Windows 10 is nowhere near the most widely used OS in the world.
It isn't even the most widely used Microsoft desktop OS in the world.
Should have used Hydrogen.
They did, and they did.
You forgot to stick a poundtag to the end of that last post.
I don't know what the rest of them are trying to be, but number 3 is definitely Intel Centrino(R).
Does that include patching things up with Brendan Eich? If not, they're just shuffling deck chairs.
Dude, you really need to look into xpra. Think "screen" for graphical programs.
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In other words, they wanted to make sure they could spy on you any time they wanted.
Screw them. Linux / xfce FTW
You couldn't pay me enough to make it my main browser.
And this is why cumulative, mandatory, updates are a BAD THING.
It's like they're not even trying now to hide it anymore. They have pretty much openly declared themselves to be hostile to users with a lot of forced updates that benefit not the user but themselves. But MS fanboys will still lap it up and somehow say it's a good thing.
Well to be fair their Opteron line until about four years ago was competing well with Xeons on performance and absolutely blew them away in terms of price and sheer number of cores.
Unfortunately that all changed with the Bulldozer architecture which, instead of cores, had "dual core" modules with one FPU shared between two ALUs.
Back in the early 90's, Wolfenstein 3D made a lot of people want to vomit too, because it was much more immersive than any *popular* game that came before it. And then people got over it.
Speaking as someone who actually enjoys 3D movies, partilcularly high frame rate 3D movies where you can actually track moving objects and scene pans, I have no problem wearing glasses if it leads to a more immersive experience.
Of course, I won't be buying into HoloLens specifically, as I do not purchase Microsoft products.
Ahem.
Ben Burtt (the sound editor) and a synthesizer did the R2D2 voice over.
Anthony Daniels wore the C3PO suit (he had to be skinny enough to fit it), and did the C3PO voice over.
Kenny Baker performed inside some of the R2D2 models - pretty much those that required complex movements that Radio Control technology of the time could not manage.