I don't think your generalizations are helpful. I can fire back that conservatives generally think all government social welfare spending is a giant fraud supporting lazy people while liberals dig into solid numbers about poverty, illnesses, crime rates, workplace injuries, and so forth.
The real problem there, if there is one core problem, is that "Conservative does detailed analysis of Iowa state Department of Human Services budget and makes the following 542 findings" and "Liberal does detailed analysis of Vermont state Department of Corrections and makes the following 384 findings" isn't going to attract attention ( much less improve advertising revenue ) like raging about lazy poor people or bleeding-heart liberals or raging about greedy business owners or racist conservatives.
My suspicion is that it will do more harm as time goes on, even as Google tries to tighten the security. People order things from Amazon, shop on Ebay, and even do banking from their phone. Hacks are going to become more and more profitable.
The man pages for systemd are excellent. No fooling. Tell me what you want to do with the systemctl command to manage and query services that you can't figure out from https://www.freedesktop.org/so...
Sorry I didn't finish detailing my argument. I think Android gadgets of all kinds will start to offer more and more traditional desktop features when they get docked with an external display and physical keyboard. I compile big applications, my Android phone isn't good enough for me to work like that. But most people could, their Androids and iPhones already provide all of the computing power they use on a daily basis.
I hadn't tried it in years, so I just set up Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 beta 2 on a VM. Classic mode seems to work pretty nicely - I don't know what you mean by having to browse to external websites.
One of the biggest reasons Android conquered mobile was the cheap price. If you wanted to get a $150 smart phone off-contract, you can't get an iPhone, period. Most of us in the tech industry or in comparatively wealthy neighborhoods are walking around with a $600 smart phone. But Android consumed the market because a McDonald's employee could walk into a Best Buy and get a $100 LG Android phone.
So most people can't vote with their wallets. I don't know if this is reliable, but look at the one put together by Android Central for devices receiving security updates last month: http://www.androidcentral.com/... It's horrifying. There are devices on that list that are cheap now, like the Nexus 5. But I don't think anything on that list was below $400 when it launched.
Four years ago GNOME 3.8 came out with a "Classic Shell" option that restores the GNOME 2 user interface. So I suspect that's what almost everyone that uses GNOME 3 these days uses - I wouldn't be surprised if it's the default setting on many distributions.
I've been posting the same thing up and down the discussion. GNOME 3.8 and newer has a "GNOME Classic" option, which restores the GNOME 2 features but with the same pretty GTK3 theming you see in GNOME 3 and Cinnamon desktops.
So no, you're not stuck with the original GNOME 3.0 way of interacting with the desktop. One click, and it's back to standard.
GNOME 3.8 is four years old and restored a "GNOME Classic" option, which gives you the GNOME 2 user interface with the prettiness of GTK3.
They probably only added it because they were hemorrhaging users to Cinnamon and MATE. But it's there. So the choice of GNOME 3 as the replacement for Unity isn't as controversial as it would have been in the GNOME 3.0-3.6 time period.
Canonical's entire strategy for the last several years has been this 'convergence' idea that people would want to run the same OS on their phone, tablet and computer. This does not appear to have panned out in the slightest.
Oh, I absolutely believe Canonical is right about this. I think convergence really is the future of computing. My wife works in the medical field and does her job all from an Android phone, and at home she does all of her computing on a tablet. My brother-in-law runs his contracting business off his phone, he rarely ever uses his desktop. My teenager plays more games on his phone than he does on the gaming console.
Now, whenever someone brings up this people, people shout it down with objections that you won't want to compile the Linux kernel or encode a Blu Ray on a OnePlus 3. And that's definitely true. But we the video geeks and the software developers represent a tiny niche of the market. 95% of the public doesn't use more computing power than a Google Pixel phone provides. Give my wife a way to use her Android phone as a desktop, and she'll ditch her desktop.
So convergence is the future. There just isn't enough interest in converged devices based on a non-Android version of Linux to make it worthwhile for Canonical. Android is going to eat the world.
I don't think Distrowatch is representative of the general Linux market. When I switched distributions once a month or more, I was there all of the time. I still have Linux on three of the five computers in my house, but I average less than one installation a year. I don't go to Distrowatch at all.
GNOME 3.8, released in spring 2013, has the "Classic Shell" option which restores the GNOME 2 interface anyway. I use Ubuntu a lot, that's the route I'll go.
The original GNOME 3 releases locked you into their new user interface layout, and I never could get used to it. I tried for weeks, too. But more recent point releases of GNOME 3 have a 'classic mode' which is basically "Revenge of GNOME 2".
I love how KDE5 / Plasma looks, but whenever I tried it the stability was awful. Admittedly, the most recent attempt was over a year ago.
In any event, I think the real news here is that Canonical couldn't get any more hardware partners to care about Ubuntu Touch. I don't care if they dropped Unity for XFCE, Ratpoison, IceWM, or LXQt (no offense to fans of those respective projects), I care that Android has well and truly conquered mobile and will probably be the ultimate future of consumer computing for most of humanity.
If you didn't already know, "Ubuntu GNOME" was the name of the official Ubuntu flavor with the GNOME desktop. I guess that becomes the new vanilla Ubuntu.
Are you kidding? https://www.freedesktop.org/wi... is excellent. Man pages, FAQs, tips and tricks, debugging errors, Howtos for converting a SysV Init service to systemd, etc...
The man pages are huge and highly detailed. If you mis-type a command, the error message is usually helpful.
You can hate the project and find technical fault with design decisions. That's fine. But don't tell me the documentation is bad. I think one of the reasons it conquered the Linux landscape is specifically the documentation.
I admit, this kind of thing is outside my expertise. I'm sure some fancy Cisco, Juniper, or maybe SuckPoint gadget might handle 10,000 simultaneous connections for one IP address. That makes tracking difficult.
But if I was going to run a VPN service out of my house, I'd just pick a cheap VPS provider, rent VMs with fast network connections but low resources otherwise, assign maybe 5-10 customers per VM, and run OpenSSL on the VMs. Nowhere near as cost-efficient as the "enterprise" route, but the initial investment to start the business is substantially smaller. That's cheap and efficient for the owner of the VPN business, but it makes end user tracking by their VPS provider or their VPS provider's ISP substantially easier than using heavy iron networking gear.
I've been trying to figure out the cheapest VPS provider that has the bandwidth I want for VPNs. I want to use a US VPN provider because we might have problems with my kids' multiplayer gaming if we're bouncing our traffic across continents. Our biggest month for data is 900GB, so unrestricted bandwidth or very high bandwidth caps are essential.
So the US requirement eliminates Scaleway (dammit). I'm looking at OVH, Kaiju Hosting https://kaijuhosting.com/vps.p..., DigitalOcean, Linode, Codero. Any good options I'm missing?
Seconded. VPN providers can write whatever they want in their public policy, but unless you work for the provider you have no way to know if they're telling the truth. And even if they're being honest today, a shady executive or a national security letter from Uncle Sam can change their policy tomorrow.
And further, as others discussed earlier there is the risk that the VPN provider's ISP is collecting the information. Traffic from your home IP goes to the VPN, and then the VPN ISP logs all traffic from there. They can trace the traffic patterns. ("Hey look, IP 1.2.3.4 hit the VPN node, and then the VPN node sent a request to that Craigslist URL for cleaning services, then Craigslist responded to the VPN node, then the VPN sent a message the same size as the Craigslist response to 1.2.3.4. We can now sell anyone that cares evidence that the homeowner at 1.2.3.4 is shopping for cleaning services!")
This is my concern. There are six people living at my house, we use between 600-900GB of data per month (mostly on Youtube and Netflix). It does no good for me to get a VPN if we can't use it.
Yeah, I said the same thing. Jake Lloyd wasn't a good child actor - though he was awfully young, period. Hayden Christiansen was the victim of abysmal writing.
The current situation is pretty shitty, but - at least for the moment - we still have nation-wide abortion rights and no remaining enforced laws jailing people for non-heterosexual behavior. My guess is that if the country splinters, the coasts might turn into Denmark but the rest of what used to be the US will turn into Uganda.
He's not self-made. His initial investments were with multi-million dollar loans cosigned by his multi-millionaire father.
And we can agree to disagree that he cares about the country and they don't. I would take any one of the ones I listed save Nixon over Trump.
But in any event, I was responding to the assertion that Trump is more honest than all of the others. He's not, he is the biggest liar out of all of the major national leaders in modern history.
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I don't think your generalizations are helpful. I can fire back that conservatives generally think all government social welfare spending is a giant fraud supporting lazy people while liberals dig into solid numbers about poverty, illnesses, crime rates, workplace injuries, and so forth.
The real problem there, if there is one core problem, is that "Conservative does detailed analysis of Iowa state Department of Human Services budget and makes the following 542 findings" and "Liberal does detailed analysis of Vermont state Department of Corrections and makes the following 384 findings" isn't going to attract attention ( much less improve advertising revenue ) like raging about lazy poor people or bleeding-heart liberals or raging about greedy business owners or racist conservatives.
My suspicion is that it will do more harm as time goes on, even as Google tries to tighten the security. People order things from Amazon, shop on Ebay, and even do banking from their phone. Hacks are going to become more and more profitable.
The man pages for systemd are excellent. No fooling. Tell me what you want to do with the systemctl command to manage and query services that you can't figure out from https://www.freedesktop.org/so...
Sorry I didn't finish detailing my argument. I think Android gadgets of all kinds will start to offer more and more traditional desktop features when they get docked with an external display and physical keyboard. I compile big applications, my Android phone isn't good enough for me to work like that. But most people could, their Androids and iPhones already provide all of the computing power they use on a daily basis.
I hadn't tried it in years, so I just set up Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 beta 2 on a VM. Classic mode seems to work pretty nicely - I don't know what you mean by having to browse to external websites.
I have nothing against Cinnamon, mind.
One of the biggest reasons Android conquered mobile was the cheap price. If you wanted to get a $150 smart phone off-contract, you can't get an iPhone, period. Most of us in the tech industry or in comparatively wealthy neighborhoods are walking around with a $600 smart phone. But Android consumed the market because a McDonald's employee could walk into a Best Buy and get a $100 LG Android phone.
So most people can't vote with their wallets. I don't know if this is reliable, but look at the one put together by Android Central for devices receiving security updates last month: http://www.androidcentral.com/... It's horrifying. There are devices on that list that are cheap now, like the Nexus 5. But I don't think anything on that list was below $400 when it launched.
Four years ago GNOME 3.8 came out with a "Classic Shell" option that restores the GNOME 2 user interface. So I suspect that's what almost everyone that uses GNOME 3 these days uses - I wouldn't be surprised if it's the default setting on many distributions.
I've been posting the same thing up and down the discussion. GNOME 3.8 and newer has a "GNOME Classic" option, which restores the GNOME 2 features but with the same pretty GTK3 theming you see in GNOME 3 and Cinnamon desktops.
So no, you're not stuck with the original GNOME 3.0 way of interacting with the desktop. One click, and it's back to standard.
GNOME 3.8 is four years old and restored a "GNOME Classic" option, which gives you the GNOME 2 user interface with the prettiness of GTK3.
They probably only added it because they were hemorrhaging users to Cinnamon and MATE. But it's there. So the choice of GNOME 3 as the replacement for Unity isn't as controversial as it would have been in the GNOME 3.0-3.6 time period.
Canonical's entire strategy for the last several years has been this 'convergence' idea that people would want to run the same OS on their phone, tablet and computer. This does not appear to have panned out in the slightest.
Oh, I absolutely believe Canonical is right about this. I think convergence really is the future of computing. My wife works in the medical field and does her job all from an Android phone, and at home she does all of her computing on a tablet. My brother-in-law runs his contracting business off his phone, he rarely ever uses his desktop. My teenager plays more games on his phone than he does on the gaming console.
Now, whenever someone brings up this people, people shout it down with objections that you won't want to compile the Linux kernel or encode a Blu Ray on a OnePlus 3. And that's definitely true. But we the video geeks and the software developers represent a tiny niche of the market. 95% of the public doesn't use more computing power than a Google Pixel phone provides. Give my wife a way to use her Android phone as a desktop, and she'll ditch her desktop.
So convergence is the future. There just isn't enough interest in converged devices based on a non-Android version of Linux to make it worthwhile for Canonical. Android is going to eat the world.
I don't think Distrowatch is representative of the general Linux market. When I switched distributions once a month or more, I was there all of the time. I still have Linux on three of the five computers in my house, but I average less than one installation a year. I don't go to Distrowatch at all.
GNOME 3.8, released in spring 2013, has the "Classic Shell" option which restores the GNOME 2 interface anyway. I use Ubuntu a lot, that's the route I'll go.
GNOME 3.8 was released four years ago last week with Classic mode, which is a reimplementation of the GNOME 2 interface.
The original GNOME 3 releases locked you into their new user interface layout, and I never could get used to it. I tried for weeks, too. But more recent point releases of GNOME 3 have a 'classic mode' which is basically "Revenge of GNOME 2".
I love how KDE5 / Plasma looks, but whenever I tried it the stability was awful. Admittedly, the most recent attempt was over a year ago.
In any event, I think the real news here is that Canonical couldn't get any more hardware partners to care about Ubuntu Touch. I don't care if they dropped Unity for XFCE, Ratpoison, IceWM, or LXQt (no offense to fans of those respective projects), I care that Android has well and truly conquered mobile and will probably be the ultimate future of consumer computing for most of humanity.
If you didn't already know, "Ubuntu GNOME" was the name of the official Ubuntu flavor with the GNOME desktop. I guess that becomes the new vanilla Ubuntu.
Are you kidding? https://www.freedesktop.org/wi... is excellent. Man pages, FAQs, tips and tricks, debugging errors, Howtos for converting a SysV Init service to systemd, etc... The man pages are huge and highly detailed. If you mis-type a command, the error message is usually helpful.
You can hate the project and find technical fault with design decisions. That's fine. But don't tell me the documentation is bad. I think one of the reasons it conquered the Linux landscape is specifically the documentation.
I admit, this kind of thing is outside my expertise. I'm sure some fancy Cisco, Juniper, or maybe SuckPoint gadget might handle 10,000 simultaneous connections for one IP address. That makes tracking difficult.
But if I was going to run a VPN service out of my house, I'd just pick a cheap VPS provider, rent VMs with fast network connections but low resources otherwise, assign maybe 5-10 customers per VM, and run OpenSSL on the VMs. Nowhere near as cost-efficient as the "enterprise" route, but the initial investment to start the business is substantially smaller. That's cheap and efficient for the owner of the VPN business, but it makes end user tracking by their VPS provider or their VPS provider's ISP substantially easier than using heavy iron networking gear.
Thanks! I'll check it out.
I've been trying to figure out the cheapest VPS provider that has the bandwidth I want for VPNs. I want to use a US VPN provider because we might have problems with my kids' multiplayer gaming if we're bouncing our traffic across continents. Our biggest month for data is 900GB, so unrestricted bandwidth or very high bandwidth caps are essential.
So the US requirement eliminates Scaleway (dammit). I'm looking at OVH, Kaiju Hosting https://kaijuhosting.com/vps.p..., DigitalOcean, Linode, Codero. Any good options I'm missing?
Seconded. VPN providers can write whatever they want in their public policy, but unless you work for the provider you have no way to know if they're telling the truth. And even if they're being honest today, a shady executive or a national security letter from Uncle Sam can change their policy tomorrow.
And further, as others discussed earlier there is the risk that the VPN provider's ISP is collecting the information. Traffic from your home IP goes to the VPN, and then the VPN ISP logs all traffic from there. They can trace the traffic patterns. ("Hey look, IP 1.2.3.4 hit the VPN node, and then the VPN node sent a request to that Craigslist URL for cleaning services, then Craigslist responded to the VPN node, then the VPN sent a message the same size as the Craigslist response to 1.2.3.4. We can now sell anyone that cares evidence that the homeowner at 1.2.3.4 is shopping for cleaning services!")
Nice thinking, but the most expensive VPN service might still be selling your data. They could just be the most greedy.
This is my concern. There are six people living at my house, we use between 600-900GB of data per month (mostly on Youtube and Netflix). It does no good for me to get a VPN if we can't use it.
Yeah, I said the same thing. Jake Lloyd wasn't a good child actor - though he was awfully young, period. Hayden Christiansen was the victim of abysmal writing.
The current situation is pretty shitty, but - at least for the moment - we still have nation-wide abortion rights and no remaining enforced laws jailing people for non-heterosexual behavior. My guess is that if the country splinters, the coasts might turn into Denmark but the rest of what used to be the US will turn into Uganda.
He's not self-made. His initial investments were with multi-million dollar loans cosigned by his multi-millionaire father.
And we can agree to disagree that he cares about the country and they don't. I would take any one of the ones I listed save Nixon over Trump.
But in any event, I was responding to the assertion that Trump is more honest than all of the others. He's not, he is the biggest liar out of all of the major national leaders in modern history.