I have, in fact, stated that you are free to do as you please.
..which is exatly what you present as the only right way.
It was you, in your very first post, who asked me to go away because you disliked my opinion.
You still don't understand do you? I didn't ask you to go away because of your opinion, but because you are (at minimum) passively erroding the freedom that Linux represents and insulting the very people who made it possible. If binary drivers do much good then certainly there is no problem if they all are binary is there? If it applies to drivers then why not to the kernel itself? Should we make all the OS binary only if it does much good and little harm in your opinion. Or maybe some drivers are special?
Am I delusional, or did you not in your very first reply to me tell me to "go use Windows and leave you alone"?
Have armed thugs showed up and taken away your free software CDs, you were stating that I'm trying to force you to use or not use something. It's an opinion not an EULA!
Good preference dialogs are better for newbies and expierenced users alike. Wizards hide what you actually change and should be used with care, otherwise you end up with such absurdities as the Outlook 2003 mail account wizard. The GNOME HIG has it right on wiza^Wassistants.
Which brings us to the other part of the hype... "The work is a step toward using conventional high-speed networks such as broadband Internet and local-area networks to transmit ultra-secure video for applications such as surveillance."
And I never denied that free software does have it's issues, but your opinion that it certainly has to be worse (because anything else is 'blatently silly' and I said so!) is just that.
But if it's not where you can find it easily, it might as well not exist.
How the heck do you think I found it? I looked for the category that may most probably contain the relevant info, so I don't think that complaint is valid either. OTOH I would agree that global search functionality for GNOME help was long overdue, so I'm looking forward to 2.14.
But, no, in general Windows does not have these problems the same extent as Linux (where every single distribution is configured differently).
Windows Fault Threshold Reached
Now where is my insightful mod?;)
Seriously, Windows may "just work" (for some definitions of work) for the "avarage user" (I hate that term, I don't believe he exists even once), but when you need something done just like this and your users are ready to eat you alive if you won't make it happen, that is the time when Windows really starts to show it's true colors. And as fun as making a keyboard layout in autohotkey is (free software to the rescue once again) I still don't understand why Microsoft decided that Windows should store keyboard layouts in platfrom specific DLLs or why it takes the more then ten months to bring Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator up to date for x64 with the resources Microsoft has.
In the end autohotkey with it's community support trumped the multi-billion corporation with their corporate support (thank's for pointing me to the blogs I already googled, your tech support is A+++).
Anyway, googling for Linux answers is like a maze of twisty passages, all alike. You'll probably get through, but it won't be quick.
And googling for Windows answers is different in what way? They too shuffle things around, replace things and you often have to edit obscure registry keys (at least some.conf files are documented) and then you often find out that it can't be done with you windows version because it's too old or too new (curse you XP x64!)
And why isn't this RTFM directly installed on the system itself?
It is. From the menu System/Help, then choose the link "Desktop" then "User Guide", from the sidebar "Nautilus file manager", point 6.12 is "Writing CDs". You may complain that it's hard to find, but you can't complain that it's not there.
The FSF is filled with pompous people who fervently believe that their way is the one and only "right" way.
But of course, I forgot, it's certailny you who must be right. Who ever would believe that other people not only disagree with you, but actualy voice their opinions and *gasp* have desulsions of beeing right themselves.
Proprietary software, or not, is one of those choices.
You have that choice with Windows as well, no difference at all. I hope your other reasons are better.
But if the FSF had their way, that choice would be taken away from me.
Got their way in what exactly?! Having more free software, more free drivers? If you had your way proprietary software would slowly undermine everything that has been achieved to become free from it.
Nobody is trying to force you to use proprietary software, so don't try to force me not to.
Are you living in some sort of fantasy world where proprietary software users hide from evil free software opresors. You have the choice between countless proprietary software packages, and if you don't like the fact that you can't run them on your favorite kernel complain to Microsoft, Jobs or God himself, but stop trying to paint the self defensive moves of the free software community as some sort of tyranny. Go run BSD if you dislike the GPL and Windows.
The problem is that you don't undertand why "Linux" is a better system, how absurd it is to blame FSF for trying to cripple it. As a result it is you and others who hold similar opinions may end up as the ones who will make it worse for us all.
The easiest way to solve the problem is for someone to start a graphics systems company that uses all open source technology and then stand back and watch.
They are working on it, but it's not all that fast of a process.
Same as nv, Blender and Wings crawl while I'm paying for lots of video RAM and a big hot chip in form of money and fan noise. When the Opengraphics or R300 people give faster then crawl 3D and vertexes bigger then 1 pixel I will gladly take a performance hit to get free.
1) RTFM - there is a nice readme provided with the official nvidia drivers which explains every module option it supports. This includes monitor selection, multi-head,... That took me 2 minutes to find out when I had that problem.
I didn't say that I needed help, I said their drivers aren't all that good.
2) Update your drivers. They indeed used to do that, but now it works just fine.
I've had enough "fun" (sorry, your card isn't supported by this release, neither is your kernel, better luck in 6 months) with updating Nvidia drivers to leave them bloody well alone and let Ubuntu handle the mess. If my old Radeon 7000 (or it's free software drivers?) would have supported vertex sizes bigger then 1 pixel I would mess around with stupid proprietary drivers in the first place and I will dump Nvidia ASAP.
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Good preference dialogs are better for newbies and expierenced users alike. Wizards hide what you actually change and should be used with care, otherwise you end up with such absurdities as the Outlook 2003 mail account wizard. The GNOME HIG has it right on wiza^Wassistants.
Which brings us to the other part of the hype...
"The work is a step toward using conventional high-speed networks such as broadband Internet and local-area networks to transmit ultra-secure video for applications such as surveillance."
And I never denied that free software does have it's issues, but your opinion that it certainly has to be worse (because anything else is 'blatently silly' and I said so!) is just that.
Windows Fault Threshold Reached
Now where is my insightful mod? ;)
Seriously, Windows may "just work" (for some definitions of work) for the "avarage user" (I hate that term, I don't believe he exists even once), but when you need something done just like this and your users are ready to eat you alive if you won't make it happen, that is the time when Windows really starts to show it's true colors. And as fun as making a keyboard layout in autohotkey is (free software to the rescue once again) I still don't understand why Microsoft decided that Windows should store keyboard layouts in platfrom specific DLLs or why it takes the more then ten months to bring Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator up to date for x64 with the resources Microsoft has.
In the end autohotkey with it's community support trumped the multi-billion corporation with their corporate support (thank's for pointing me to the blogs I already googled, your tech support is A+++).
RMS has all the free software and drivers he needs -- he is a hacker, not a gamer or 3D graphics enthusiast -- as a direct result of his run...
The problem is that you don't undertand why "Linux" is a better system, how absurd it is to blame FSF for trying to cripple it. As a result it is you and others who hold similar opinions may end up as the ones who will make it worse for us all.
Why don't you use Windows and leave us alone?
Gameboy Color is a full generation on it's own. In addition to the color display it had a faster CPU and more memory.
Matrox is out of business? I doubt Netcraft would confirm that.
Or maybe the reverse--tried to force 'trusted computing' on AMD in a way that would cost them the Linux market.
Linus is the management...
And there are parties SO interested that they are making their own graphics card.
Same as nv, Blender and Wings crawl while I'm paying for lots of video RAM and a big hot chip in form of money and fan noise. When the Opengraphics or R300 people give faster then crawl 3D and vertexes bigger then 1 pixel I will gladly take a performance hit to get free.