Disclaimer, the settings/options I talk of are a wishlist rather than something I know is existing, I don't know how stuff work on current - still early - Firefox OS. Never seen a phone with it yet.
I can zoom the map myself to know where I am, and as for the GPS data it can be used to record trips on local storage without sending the data to Google or another 3rd party.
I'm using Mate or Xfce, Cinnamon would be heavier in disk accesses and ram for me and especially I want to run a desktop that can run on all computers not just mine. So I run a 2D desktop.
I read the Mint news and it's progressing, for instance in Mint 14 they made a unified control panel in Cinnamon instead of having two control panels (a Gnome 3 one and a Cinnamon one) ; Cinnamon 2.0 brings the bigger changes. Overview with screenshots here http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/10/cinnamon-2-0-released/
I've seen the 'entire Java API libraries' aspect described as a giant attack surface. That's one easy to understand explanation for the security problems with Java, and client-side execution of arbitrary java code downloaded from the internet is now pretty much dead.
I like the idea of Firefox OS phones though, in that environment you don't have that many layers, just the web crap and javascript host that you needed anyway to look up web pages. It has the uglyness and inefficiency you complain about but at the same time the OS is kept small, gets security updates and you would be able to download those security updates easily enough through 3G/4G or wifi. The execution speed problem is dealt with by throwing brute force at it (low power, 1GHz ARM). If security/privacy features are adequate that's the first smartphone/phablet thing I can consider owning. (domain blocker, NoScript equivalent, fine grained permissions along with global rules like "any application that uses GPS can't use networking")
Because the Chromebook. They already have a desktop web OS, which competes with Windows and Apple laptops, and it sure makes sense being able to develop web apps or Chrome apps from that environment.
Reply to myself, Cinnamon's backends have been moving away from Gnome 3, been forked and renamed. Previously Cinnamon stuff of a particular version would need Gnome 3 stuff from a particular version, possibly held back a notch in some cases.. It's probably safer to try the Nemo from Cinnamon 2.0, which ought to not conflict with Gnome 3. I didn't try any of this. I did kind of the reverse thing before, using nemo on Mate. It was a bit of a mess (two file managers fighting for the right to render the desktop icons, stuff that opens in caja from the panels and in nemo from the desktop..)
The nemo file manager could be an interesting option, it's a fork of nautilus 3.x, precisely to add the missing stuff in and improve on it ; it is Cinnamon's file manager. It uses GTK3. So it might be less disruptive than caja in a Gnome 3 environment.
I think XFCE is somewhat mainstream, i.e. you had Xubuntu 7.04, debian ISO with XFCE etc., maybe it was hardly a common desktop or default desktop but the best known after KDE and Gnome. (not counting FVWM, twm, *box etc. as desktop) LXDE though is quite a recent desktop in comparison.
This makes me think of the Cray, nice-looking cylinder shape with a big mess of small wires inside. Or that video a while back where people were time-lapse wiring a cluster with lots of colored cables, in the center of it.
Probably more practical would be to migrate from massively parallel to faster serial communication. Like the difference between old parallel printer cables to USB. Granted, these inter-chip lineswould have to be carefully designed and shielded (high freq.), but so do light fibers.
Did that happen already? Hypertransport looks like a serial bus, and Intel's QPI is much of the same thing. Likewise PCIe replaced PCI, like your printer cable exemple. All those buses are "serial, but you use multiple lanes anyway" though.
How much software is there? What's good with Ubuntu (and Mint is a wrapper around Ubuntu) is there is a lot of software in the default repositories, so no need to add repositories (to then need to acquire guru skills if something goes wrong with that) or do "make install" for trivial software.
Is there documentation? the worst thing is having spent years how to do apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade, apt-get clean, apt-get autoremove etc. and stuff like service gdm stop, then have to learn all new crap. But at least there's killall gdm, or killall (whateveryourdm)
Personally I have never done that anyway, or at least not that I can recall.
It's what you have under Windows 3.1 and Motif, and to some extent later Windows versions as well : the top left is a menu with maximize, minimize, move, restore etc. and close. Double-clicking the menu (with may be sort of hidden in recent Windows OS or apps) closes the window. Most linux desktops / window managers have that same menu, but I couldn't find how to configure them for "double-click to close" (xfce, mate, gnome 2, openbox..)
You elitist, there's no way most people's three year old PC can run that kind of game, and not the Linux PCs. You at least run into shit like having a slightly too slow CPU, unless you talk about an old high end PC or one upgraded to not get under 20 fps in fire fights. Half the people are running laptops, too.
I sadly stopped caring about PC gaming : I have absolutely no need or desire to upgrade my CPU (3GHz dual core AMD) yet games are written for even faster dual cores, or for quad cores. I'm glad my PC works at all, thanks. I would need to get a motherboard with higher current or different socket, and that's a pain. I'm even using linux anyway which makes it hard or impossible to run even a ten year old game (except blizzard and valve ones).
It's nice (you can get newer Xorg as well) but by default makes your partition fill up with hundreds megabytes of unneeded kernel updates when you run apt-get dist-upgrade, unless you have the necessary knowledge to prevent the original kernel from being updated. And lots of crap to clean up in/boot. That's an annoyance.
I liked MS-DOS. It did not lack 3D games, in fact unless maybe you were in the US and could afford to use a modem, a home MS-DOS machine was used only for two things, playing 2D games and playing 3D games.
Have you tried clicking on "No, thanks" or "Nag me about this later"? I always thought Google, Yahoo and others pretended to need your number for "conveniance" and "safety" but that it's just an unsubtle ploy to get your number. It's like being robbed, but politely and with your consent.
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It's rather imbecillic to handwave it without providing any reasoning behind it. Look what Mozilla is doing with asm.js and "compile to javascript" compilers.. You can compile a high level language to a low level, restricted subset of javascript which then runs very fast in the browsers's JIT engines. Doesn't sound too great maybe but the resulting execution speed can possibly be better than by using javascript's high level features and libraries instead.
Why fucking not. A single 100W server that stream the games to 2W terminals and old computers and laptops that can't fucking run the game in the first place, because of wrong OS, wrong hardware and wrong software. But only the server needs maintained and the games work everywhere. Sign me up, even if for four 1024x768 instance of an old networked game ; that feels valuable to me. That beats running flash games slowed down by the VNC or X11 streaming on the thin clients.
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Disclaimer, the settings/options I talk of are a wishlist rather than something I know is existing, I don't know how stuff work on current - still early - Firefox OS. Never seen a phone with it yet.
I can zoom the map myself to know where I am, and as for the GPS data it can be used to record trips on local storage without sending the data to Google or another 3rd party.
I'm using Mate or Xfce, Cinnamon would be heavier in disk accesses and ram for me and especially I want to run a desktop that can run on all computers not just mine. So I run a 2D desktop.
I read the Mint news and it's progressing, for instance in Mint 14 they made a unified control panel in Cinnamon instead of having two control panels (a Gnome 3 one and a Cinnamon one) ; Cinnamon 2.0 brings the bigger changes. Overview with screenshots here http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/10/cinnamon-2-0-released/
I've seen the 'entire Java API libraries' aspect described as a giant attack surface. That's one easy to understand explanation for the security problems with Java, and client-side execution of arbitrary java code downloaded from the internet is now pretty much dead.
I like the idea of Firefox OS phones though, in that environment you don't have that many layers, just the web crap and javascript host that you needed anyway to look up web pages. It has the uglyness and inefficiency you complain about but at the same time the OS is kept small, gets security updates and you would be able to download those security updates easily enough through 3G/4G or wifi. The execution speed problem is dealt with by throwing brute force at it (low power, 1GHz ARM). If security/privacy features are adequate that's the first smartphone/phablet thing I can consider owning. (domain blocker, NoScript equivalent, fine grained permissions along with global rules like "any application that uses GPS can't use networking")
Because the Chromebook. They already have a desktop web OS, which competes with Windows and Apple laptops, and it sure makes sense being able to develop web apps or Chrome apps from that environment.
Autopilots are old as fuck, but that was not so much the question.
And rub it with alcohol :), or something similar. We can reasonably hope alcohol will be able to kill things for a long time.
Reply to myself,
Cinnamon's backends have been moving away from Gnome 3, been forked and renamed. Previously Cinnamon stuff of a particular version would need Gnome 3 stuff from a particular version, possibly held back a notch in some cases.. It's probably safer to try the Nemo from Cinnamon 2.0, which ought to not conflict with Gnome 3. I didn't try any of this.
I did kind of the reverse thing before, using nemo on Mate. It was a bit of a mess (two file managers fighting for the right to render the desktop icons, stuff that opens in caja from the panels and in nemo from the desktop..)
The nemo file manager could be an interesting option, it's a fork of nautilus 3.x, precisely to add the missing stuff in and improve on it ; it is Cinnamon's file manager. It uses GTK3. So it might be less disruptive than caja in a Gnome 3 environment.
I think XFCE is somewhat mainstream, i.e. you had Xubuntu 7.04, debian ISO with XFCE etc., maybe it was hardly a common desktop or default desktop but the best known after KDE and Gnome. (not counting FVWM, twm, *box etc. as desktop)
LXDE though is quite a recent desktop in comparison.
This makes me think of the Cray, nice-looking cylinder shape with a big mess of small wires inside. Or that video a while back where people were time-lapse wiring a cluster with lots of colored cables, in the center of it.
Probably more practical would be to migrate from massively parallel to faster serial communication. Like the difference between old parallel printer cables to USB. Granted, these inter-chip lineswould have to be carefully designed and shielded (high freq.), but so do light fibers.
Did that happen already? Hypertransport looks like a serial bus, and Intel's QPI is much of the same thing. Likewise PCIe replaced PCI, like your printer cable exemple. All those buses are "serial, but you use multiple lanes anyway" though.
Ubuntu 12.04 (and Mint 13) are 5 years, already.
How much software is there? What's good with Ubuntu (and Mint is a wrapper around Ubuntu) is there is a lot of software in the default repositories, so no need to add repositories (to then need to acquire guru skills if something goes wrong with that) or do "make install" for trivial software.
Is there documentation? the worst thing is having spent years how to do apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade, apt-get clean, apt-get autoremove etc. and stuff like service gdm stop, then have to learn all new crap. But at least there's killall gdm, or killall (whateveryourdm)
Personally I have never done that anyway, or at least not that I can recall.
It's what you have under Windows 3.1 and Motif, and to some extent later Windows versions as well : the top left is a menu with maximize, minimize, move, restore etc. and close. Double-clicking the menu (with may be sort of hidden in recent Windows OS or apps) closes the window.
Most linux desktops / window managers have that same menu, but I couldn't find how to configure them for "double-click to close" (xfce, mate, gnome 2, openbox..)
Eliminate the cost of labout? I see what you did there..
No, you're conflating freedom with winner-takes-all, deregulated crony "capitalism".
You elitist, there's no way most people's three year old PC can run that kind of game, and not the Linux PCs. You at least run into shit like having a slightly too slow CPU, unless you talk about an old high end PC or one upgraded to not get under 20 fps in fire fights. Half the people are running laptops, too.
I sadly stopped caring about PC gaming : I have absolutely no need or desire to upgrade my CPU (3GHz dual core AMD) yet games are written for even faster dual cores, or for quad cores. I'm glad my PC works at all, thanks. I would need to get a motherboard with higher current or different socket, and that's a pain. I'm even using linux anyway which makes it hard or impossible to run even a ten year old game (except blizzard and valve ones).
Yes, like dealing with five different "Save as"/"Open File" window styles is so great. (GTK2 and GTK3 count for two different ones)
It's nice (you can get newer Xorg as well) but by default makes your partition fill up with hundreds megabytes of unneeded kernel updates when you run apt-get dist-upgrade, unless you have the necessary knowledge to prevent the original kernel from being updated. And lots of crap to clean up in /boot. That's an annoyance.
I liked MS-DOS. It did not lack 3D games, in fact unless maybe you were in the US and could afford to use a modem, a home MS-DOS machine was used only for two things, playing 2D games and playing 3D games.
Have you tried clicking on "No, thanks" or "Nag me about this later"? I always thought Google, Yahoo and others pretended to need your number for "conveniance" and "safety" but that it's just an unsubtle ploy to get your number. It's like being robbed, but politely and with your consent.
It's rather imbecillic to handwave it without providing any reasoning behind it. Look what Mozilla is doing with asm.js and "compile to javascript" compilers.. You can compile a high level language to a low level, restricted subset of javascript which then runs very fast in the browsers's JIT engines. Doesn't sound too great maybe but the resulting execution speed can possibly be better than by using javascript's high level features and libraries instead.
Why fucking not. A single 100W server that stream the games to 2W terminals and old computers and laptops that can't fucking run the game in the first place, because of wrong OS, wrong hardware and wrong software. But only the server needs maintained and the games work everywhere. Sign me up, even if for four 1024x768 instance of an old networked game ; that feels valuable to me.
That beats running flash games slowed down by the VNC or X11 streaming on the thin clients.