Neat Linux trick -- you can make your own simply by copying his and doing your own damn thing with it. That's the beauty of the GPL. Go ahead, fork the kernel and be rid of Linus forever.
My wife's tablet is her PC these days. She barely uses anything else.
My primary computer is a traditional PC. Does that make one of those not a personal computer? In that case, she doesn't have one at all, just like a LOT of people who've moved on to portable devices running more stable operating systems.
That is to say, you excluded the one platform where Linux made the most in-roads simply by being physically more convenient and therefore breaking expectations.
The first twenty times you reboot it or have to research how to get rid of a toolbar that won't uninstall that has taken over your desktop, I'm pretty sure you should be wondering "isn't there something better than this?"
The primary reason random people use Windows is because they don't realize they have choices.
That paradox doesn't exist. Being unwilling to do something has no effect on one's potency.
I'm able to break my screen right now, but I don't want to. Does that change whether I'm able to? What if I really hate this screen and want a new one, but I don't break this one even though I could? I'm still capable.
Interesting question that's always bugged me: how long did Adam and Eve live in this garden before child birth became difficult? They weren't mortal until after eating of the fruit, so did they live for thousands of years before giving in to temptation? Did they romp around and have thousands of offspring first?
Modern parenting would tell you that if you're raising a child, you keep everything harmful away from them. Unfortunately, they grow up and eventually encounter harmful things and don't know how to deal with them.
Instead, a good approach is to introduce harmful options with rules. "Don't touch the stove", "Don't walk behind cars" etc.
If God created humanity to worship him, and gave them no choices to do otherwise, the result would be incredibly hollow, would it not? Instead he gave us a choice, and we made one.
You've never done large-scale purchasing, have you? When a company's computers need replacing, they need replacing, and you replace them with the most stable software releases available at the time.
The problem my clients have is third party hardware management. Companies that make flow meters, security system monitors, voicemail control systems, etc. all use Windows as a back-end and presume Windows desktops for interfaces.
A) Linux has a lot more hardware drivers than any version of Windows B) Hardware that doesn't work on Linux often only exists because Windows allowed for those horrifying closed binary blob drivers that never should've happened in the first place.
Interesting point on that note -- I just picked up two new 4TB drives for a box that isn't very old and I realize (as I should have in advance) that it didn't support booting from large drives. The BIOS just didn't understand what to do... so I installed a third drive to boot off of as a workaround. Sometimes although it doesn't expire, software is no longer useful in its older form.
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Why do fixes need to happen in private when the behaviour happened in public? You act like a dick in private, you get reprimanded in private.
This guy ignored public bug fix requests and very publicly denounced Linus' view on the issue.
The only way this is big is in a positive way -- we have a leader who stands up for what's right and good instead of pussyfooting around.
I'm sick of people using the word "professional" to mean something it doesn't mean.
There's nothing unprofessional about telling another professional he's being walked out the door by security for not playing well with others.
If anyone was unprofessional, its the RedHat employee who kept closing bug reports without acknowledging the problem.
Your last point is why BitMover should never have stopped supporting the kernel developers for free.
You needed a 432nd?
Last I checked, Mac users don't mind being called pretentious assholes.
Neat Linux trick -- you can make your own simply by copying his and doing your own damn thing with it. That's the beauty of the GPL. Go ahead, fork the kernel and be rid of Linus forever.
Crappy troll smells like crap.
You're the one inventing definitions.
My wife's tablet is her PC these days. She barely uses anything else.
My primary computer is a traditional PC. Does that make one of those not a personal computer? In that case, she doesn't have one at all, just like a LOT of people who've moved on to portable devices running more stable operating systems.
That is to say, you excluded the one platform where Linux made the most in-roads simply by being physically more convenient and therefore breaking expectations.
Its trolling. If you can't see why, that's not our problem.
You didn't phrase it as an actual poll, you phrased it with intent to drag people into an argument.
The first twenty times you reboot it or have to research how to get rid of a toolbar that won't uninstall that has taken over your desktop, I'm pretty sure you should be wondering "isn't there something better than this?"
The primary reason random people use Windows is because they don't realize they have choices.
I run my home desktop dual-screen on Linux. My work desktop is also a real box running Fedora, not some low-end terminal.
Both have accelerated video using NVidia cards and 8-16GB of RAM.
All of our smart phones and tablets run either Linux or the other Linux known as Android.
What's your problem exactly?
Gnome3 has a taskbar available, so does KDE. So do XFCE and LXDE ... have you even used Linux?
Really? Most of these don't look like Windows 8 ... http://spins.fedoraproject.org...
I keep usr in root, but my subdirs of var are broken up all over the place.
I'm pretty sure at no point did RedHat tell him to ignore a bug his software caused in the kernel.
That paradox doesn't exist. Being unwilling to do something has no effect on one's potency.
I'm able to break my screen right now, but I don't want to. Does that change whether I'm able to? What if I really hate this screen and want a new one, but I don't break this one even though I could? I'm still capable.
The paradox in question is ridiculous.
Interesting question that's always bugged me: how long did Adam and Eve live in this garden before child birth became difficult? They weren't mortal until after eating of the fruit, so did they live for thousands of years before giving in to temptation? Did they romp around and have thousands of offspring first?
Just a thought.
Modern parenting would tell you that if you're raising a child, you keep everything harmful away from them. Unfortunately, they grow up and eventually encounter harmful things and don't know how to deal with them.
Instead, a good approach is to introduce harmful options with rules. "Don't touch the stove", "Don't walk behind cars" etc.
If God created humanity to worship him, and gave them no choices to do otherwise, the result would be incredibly hollow, would it not? Instead he gave us a choice, and we made one.
Atheism is a faith; agnosticism isn't. Atheism makes claims it can't justify or prove.
You've never done large-scale purchasing, have you? When a company's computers need replacing, they need replacing, and you replace them with the most stable software releases available at the time.
The problem my clients have is third party hardware management. Companies that make flow meters, security system monitors, voicemail control systems, etc. all use Windows as a back-end and presume Windows desktops for interfaces.
What do you think encryption is if not a purely mathematical task?
A) Linux has a lot more hardware drivers than any version of Windows
B) Hardware that doesn't work on Linux often only exists because Windows allowed for those horrifying closed binary blob drivers that never should've happened in the first place.
Interesting point on that note -- I just picked up two new 4TB drives for a box that isn't very old and I realize (as I should have in advance) that it didn't support booting from large drives. The BIOS just didn't understand what to do ... so I installed a third drive to boot off of as a workaround. Sometimes although it doesn't expire, software is no longer useful in its older form.