Fantastic? That may be how you see it. I have spent the weekend helping several friends who have been exposed to Win7 for the first time, and decided they want what I have (Ubuntu with Gnome shell) instead.
Leaving aside the horrendous problem of "search bars", and activation, it is particularly maddening the way you get all the popups, and files you download/save "magically" go somewhere other than where you put them.
We soon found out that Winows Mobile was pretty much incapable of running any software at all. They lost all your data, had no support worth talking about, and upgrade was impossible. Hence dismal sales. We are sure as hell not going to buy any more portable devices with the word "Windows" on them. Symbian devices may not be upgradeable, and have few apps, but at least they dont crash and lose your data several times a week.
I think if anyone used the word "Windows" to sell their not even slightly similar product, MS would sue their balls off for impersonation in seconds, regardless of whether the corners are rounded. The word is there precisely to give the impression that the software environment is identical.
Hardly anyone will understand the concepts involved. Look at the number of people who are happy to believe that OpenOffice is "the new version of Office", or who cant tell the difference between MS Office and Windows. What percentage of Americans know what an OS is? Probably more would know that A4 is a paper size, but I have no research to prove it. (In Europe "Load Letter" means its time to discard your printer and buy a new one - preferably with better support for users)
I must need more coffee and less Jimmy Savile stories: I read that as kernel molesting.
Ubuntu 12.10 works for me - except it stops to send an error report to Shuttleworth every 30 mins or so. But that is after installing Gnome-shell. I have just learned enough Unity to switch back.
I have only used stable, but (On Sparc64) I get 2 year up times (after which machines tend to get rebuilt). Only down time has been due to hardware issues (and a HD filling up to 110%) I have been using it since version 2.8 - and intermittently before that on Sparc and PC architecture. (Headless - historically, graphics dirvers were very limited)
Your comment is a clear indication that this kind of stuff should not be on by default - like auto-completion, which is just annoying, since I can type faster than I can use the auto complete (Thank you, Mavis Deacon)
Get a one button mouse! You can find a small one geared towards a child's hand. It makes a world of difference when getting started to not have the confusion of two buttons and a scroll wheel.
That is not necessary. Its not like when you were young: These days, three year olds can use Nintendo DS and Wiimotes (which are bigger than most mice, and have loads of buttons).
Being a troll is also a religion. (Speaking as a true Buddhist)
Leaning Linux (or Unix generally) is likely to remain valid learning for over 20 years (I still use what I leaned about Unix in 1979 on Ubuntu today- that is over 30 years ago). Learning about Windows lasts about 5 years if you are lucky. With Windows, the kid's skills would be obsolete before he is old enough to understand what the computer behind the apps actually does.
Plus Winphone 8 vs Android may do for Linux what iPod vs Zune did for Apple.
I am pretty sure no one buys US made stuff anyway. The real problem is stuff made in China is able to be sold as "Made in the USA" through trade agreements (WTF?). I do not expect DRM in the EMEA versions.
Sony stangled the minidisk by extreme stupidity. If they had not commited to a file system no one else wanted,a dn a compression system no one else wanted, but made it compatible with floppies and MP3, so it could be used for data as well as music, there would have been no problems at all.
As it was, it could not really be used for data, thus eliminating the lucrative market of people who could not get all their data on one floppy disk.
Bribery? Most investment is by institutional shareholders - risking other people's money, and getting paid a percentage whether they win or lose. When they lose big "Its the rogue trader what done it" or "the market crashed just when we least expected it" or just plain old "Not my fault, Honest!" However, their mates, on the other side of the (revolving) door see they are alright.
The biggest shame is that, if they weren't so busy throwing money down this particular drain, they might be investing in real, bricks and mortar, manufacturing industry, employing the likes of us!
Don't worry. One day, you will get some real world experience. There is no kind of "free market" involved in this. There is a market rigged by a small ring of players to scam the rest of the world, protecting thier interests with bribery and corruption on a scale you cannot imagine. As you say: the biggest gun wins. It is the American Way. It sure as hell ain't a free market. "fee market" more like
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Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies when you are having fun ;-)
Fantastic? That may be how you see it. I have spent the weekend helping several friends who have been exposed to Win7 for the first time, and decided they want what I have (Ubuntu with Gnome shell) instead. Leaving aside the horrendous problem of "search bars", and activation, it is particularly maddening the way you get all the popups, and files you download/save "magically" go somewhere other than where you put them.
And only 10 years after I first suggested the goverment should order them to do it!
We soon found out that Winows Mobile was pretty much incapable of running any software at all. They lost all your data, had no support worth talking about, and upgrade was impossible. Hence dismal sales. We are sure as hell not going to buy any more portable devices with the word "Windows" on them. Symbian devices may not be upgradeable, and have few apps, but at least they dont crash and lose your data several times a week.
Hardly anyone will understand the concepts involved. Look at the number of people who are happy to believe that OpenOffice is "the new version of Office", or who cant tell the difference between MS Office and Windows. What percentage of Americans know what an OS is? Probably more would know that A4 is a paper size, but I have no research to prove it. (In Europe "Load Letter" means its time to discard your printer and buy a new one - preferably with better support for users)
Ubuntu 12.10 works for me - except it stops to send an error report to Shuttleworth every 30 mins or so. But that is after installing Gnome-shell. I have just learned enough Unity to switch back.
Let me be the first Unity-hate in this thread.
I have only used stable, but (On Sparc64) I get 2 year up times (after which machines tend to get rebuilt). Only down time has been due to hardware issues (and a HD filling up to 110%) I have been using it since version 2.8 - and intermittently before that on Sparc and PC architecture. (Headless - historically, graphics dirvers were very limited)
Your comment is a clear indication that this kind of stuff should not be on by default - like auto-completion, which is just annoying, since I can type faster than I can use the auto complete (Thank you, Mavis Deacon)
It should be obvious that these would be identical in every way to what is known as "resonance".
That is not necessary. Its not like when you were young: These days, three year olds can use Nintendo DS and Wiimotes (which are bigger than most mice, and have loads of buttons).
Maybe you are an Apple pervert.
Leaning Linux (or Unix generally) is likely to remain valid learning for over 20 years (I still use what I leaned about Unix in 1979 on Ubuntu today- that is over 30 years ago). Learning about Windows lasts about 5 years if you are lucky. With Windows, the kid's skills would be obsolete before he is old enough to understand what the computer behind the apps actually does.
Plus Winphone 8 vs Android may do for Linux what iPod vs Zune did for Apple.
Turd, Zune, what is the difference?
No. Not everyone. Specifically not the kind of politician that thinks they make great manifestos. (Eg the British Labour Party).
I am pretty sure no one buys US made stuff anyway. The real problem is stuff made in China is able to be sold as "Made in the USA" through trade agreements (WTF?). I do not expect DRM in the EMEA versions.
As it was, it could not really be used for data, thus eliminating the lucrative market of people who could not get all their data on one floppy disk.
The biggest shame is that, if they weren't so busy throwing money down this particular drain, they might be investing in real, bricks and mortar, manufacturing industry, employing the likes of us!
Don't worry. One day, you will get some real world experience. There is no kind of "free market" involved in this. There is a market rigged by a small ring of players to scam the rest of the world, protecting thier interests with bribery and corruption on a scale you cannot imagine. As you say: the biggest gun wins. It is the American Way. It sure as hell ain't a free market. "fee market" more like
DCMA notice expected from B Dylan and any associated record company.
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Whatever next? CongressCritters are people? US Judges are people? where will it end?
FTFY
Yggdrasil ( -> FreeBSD ) -> Slackware -> SuSE ( -> FreeBSD ) -> Ubuntu -> Mint -> Ubuntu.
Still use OpenBSD for servers though, and I have an old Thinkpad running NetBSD, installed from floppies, used as console for the servers.
And I hate Unity as much as anyone else.
I am still banging rocks together, you insensitive clod (Its called PHP development).
And it doesn't even burn diesel. How relevant is that?
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