What I bought: HP DV6xxx series laptop. Processor: 1.66GHz processor Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS 512MB dedicated RAM: 2GB RAM Built in monitor: 1280x800 Built in webcam. Built in bluetooth. Universal SD-MS/Pro-MMC-XD card reader/writer HDMI output Remote control 3 USB ports Firewire Some new mini-pcie thing I have yet to use. Price: £399 from Comet - no special sale going on.
Said laptop runs most of my games at maxed out settings.
Even if I compare my laptop to today's Mac Mini, even without the extra £100, I'd still buy the laptop. The laptop does pretty much everything I want. The laptop wasn't refurbished, it certainly isn't crappy either. I often find regular x86 laptops are cheaper than Macs are, when I visit the stores and look around.
That way that commercial was put together was to try and make people think that they just found some random lady and said to find herself a computer - but that woman is an actress (obviously i know) but i think its lame how M$ stooped to that level
Compared to stuff they've done in anti-trust cases? This isn't low at all for them, they're getting better.
Why isn't anyone considering the fact that Mac users *value* the fact that they don't spend endless hours scanning/rescanning/cleaning their machines from the viruses/spyware/bullshit that affects their PC counterparts?
Because there are plenty of Windows users that don't, and get on just fine. I actually know many people who would choose Windows over OS X just because it can't do that Windows can, which is, run Windows software they use.
I could use the same excuse for users buying a cheaper PC with a Linux OS preinstalled, but guess why it wouldn't fly? Because it doesn't run what people want or they aren't willing to deal with a unfamiliar system.
With all the users I know... Most Apple users I know don't use OS X because of the reasons you gave, same goes for Linux. They would likely still use OS X and/or Linux even if it did have those problems.
A lot of people arent taking into account the resale value and usability of older macs.
I don't sell my old computers. As for usability, I don't really see how they're more usable than my regular x86 systems.
*looks over at 14 year old x86 system still running fine and doing useful tasks*
Can you imagine what you can do with a four year old pc? exactly. Nothing.
My six year old desktop PC is my gaming system, the only thing I've upgraded in the recent years is the graphics card, it runs all my games at maximum settings. So, I'm pretty confused as to how you got to your "nothing" statement.
could easily have bought a wintel box new that has 'faster' processors, but then i would have to use windows.
What utter non-sense, you can run a Linux variant or even Solaris on that hardware.
For me the four year old mac is still more appealing than a new pc.
I can tell you're a old Mac user, because you used the term "wintel" earlier. Wintel was a silly joke Mac fans made about Intel processors and Windows, back when they made fun of x86 being inferior, despite the fact benchmarks often showed x86 performed far better in most instances that did not involve ALTEC. I have come to the conclusion that you're a Apple zealot.
I never really considered a mini to be mid range honestly. I considered it to be low-end netbook quality hardware which is expensive because of it's size and brand. It doesn't even come with dedicated graphics memory like the Koala mini does. Although you can't really compare Koala mini to it either, because it doesn't have the same graphics chipset and it has dedicated graphics memory on the graphics card too.
Personally, I'd go for the Koala, even if it is a little bit more expensive to get the 120GB, since the superior graphics performance thanks to the dedicated memory means a lot for gaming and certain productivity uses - plus it can be even configured with a much faster processor than the Mini can for the same size (I think that's awesome personally). A computer that just does E-mail, word processing and web browsing isn't really enough for me unless it's a tiny netbook - fortunately the Koala exists as a nice desktop solution for people like me.
The best part of that commercial is when she says she's "not cool enough to be a Mac person" you see she's driving a VW.
I know truly piss poor people who got a VW thanks to loans (not the smartest decision for purchases in my opinion, but they're happy so... heh) - what is your point?
I have a 15+ years experience with PC's and I know how to install / fix Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc. I actually do that for a living. I have 2 PC gaming desktops, 1 old HP laptop and a *sic* Alpha XL 266 which runs Debian.
I have many years experience with PCs and I know how to install / fix Windows, Linux, Solaris, AROS, BSDs, AmigaOS, AMOS, HP/UX etc. I am platform agnostic and have a love for computers. I've done plenty of system/network administration, development and support.
But, my latest purchase was Macbook 13" and I absolutely f*king love it!
There is no doubt to me that Mac OS X trumps every other OS there is and that was precisely the factor that made me make the decision to get a Mac.
Really? I am not impressed with OS X.
I was appalled by it's OpenGL support being terribly broken, buggy graphic drivers (for example - I had a stupid problem of 3d graphical applications killing the OS because I had 4GB of regular physical RAM, 1GB more than what the graphics drivers preconceived possible or some crap) making development and crossplatform development hell. I was not amused discovering that 64bit GUI applications must be coded in objective-c and cocoa - hence why there is no 64bit version of photoshop. My experiences with it's compatibility with Mac hardware was terrifying, for example, having wireless devices no longer function on certain OS updates, kernel panics on certain bluetooth devices that came with the Mac which work perfectly fine with other operating systems on the same hardware.
I have had over the years more hardware failures with Macs than any other vendor I've used. Many of which were "logicboard failures" (Apple's way of saying that the motherboard they sold you was faulty). Not to mention discovering the insane amount of thermal paste used and other things.
I was not impressed by the lack of drag and drop support in x11 nor was I happy about the clipboard buggyness in x11 on OS X. I haven't taken a liking to the interface, and unlike Linux, there is no real skin-ability in the desktop environment and the 'hacks' that are available for getting around this, screw up.
The file I/O performance in my experience its pathetic when compared to Windows and Linux on the same hardware, in all honesty, I am confused as to how you came to the conclusion that OS X "trumps every other OS there", even ignoring the fact that it's server operating system is absolutely terrible and cannot compare to any other, and accepting the very limited working software selection in comparison to Linux and Windows.
Like I said, I fix computers for a living so when I come home to relax I want a computer that Just Works (tm). Apple does precisely that.
So, have you only ever owned this single Mac? How long? Do you truely think this single experience is good enough to determine that all Macs are great?
This is the thing that most of you don't understand. When you buy that pc, it is loaded with crap that you will never use.
As is OS X. I don't use Safari, imovie, itunes, idvd, iphoto, quicktime, garageband, iweb etc. I will never use them, I have no interest in using them.
Windows computers are slow because Windows is slow.
Don't use Windows then? It takes me approximately 30 minutes to install and configure kubuntu with all the software I use, fully functional. I don't think taking 30 minutes on a new computer is unacceptable.
The OS development started with the first beta of Windows NT in 1993 or 1994. Why do you want to even run it?
Because the code is mature and proven?
My computer of choice now is OS X Leopard. Why do you ask? NO MAINTENANCE!!!
I have a tendency to get pissed off when I update my system and I need to reboot. OS X Leopard makes me reboot for things I never needed to in Windows... Quicktime, codecs, java and so on. All requiring annoying restarts.
I would bother replying to the majority of your post if you weren't AC. Peace out.
Hahaha... it's this kind of attitude that brings about corruption and abuse. "It can't happen here!"
Incorrect, he didn't rule out the possibility, only the likeliness of it happening.
Unlike the US, agencies in the UK don't wait for people to "tip" or "report", instead proper licensing schemes are produced to ensure companies reach the standards needed. The licensing schemes subject the companies to random, regular spot-checks to ensure they are following the license requirements, otherwise they lose the license to continue operating in that field.
This is far different from selection schemes I've seen used in by States, where no regularity action is initially taken.
Yeah, it's so much worse than GIMP or Firefox for hinting at what it's function is!
Why? Doesn't your operating system categorize it under graphical programs and then give a informative tip next to the name saying that it's a image manipulation program?
Facts are facts, it hot keys aren't working for me in KDE3 applications under a KDE4 desktop and that has prevented me from using KDE3 applications under a KDE4 desktop.
You haven't looked far and it obviously can't be that good given what you've described. OpenSuse is a far better KDE distro and I'd suggest you try something that has a chance of working first before pinning various things as KDE bugs.
OpenSuSE doesn't have a large repository selection like Kubuntu, despite the fact it does have KDE3.5.
For example, majority of amateur radio applications that are available on Kubuntu isn't on OpenSuSE, applications like virtualbox require me to go to the website and download it rather than doing "yast -i virtualbox" etc. There is no official Skype, Google, repositories. I have to wait days for OpenSuSE's wine repositories to update, while I don't have to for the ones provided for Ubuntu.
OpenSuSE lacks what I find great about Kubuntu (it has repositories for everything) and exchanging it for KDE3 is tempting, but having to deal with compiling certain applications, in particular, compiling amateur radio applications is too much of an annoyance. Nevermind recompiling the software each time there is an update, having to check for said updates etc.
It wasn't an excuse.
Excuse, to serve as a reason or cause or justification of.
That sounds like an excuse not to use them rather than a reason why you 'can't'. Besides, I've used KDE 3 applications in KDE 4 and I don't see that at all.
I do, and with applications like Amarok, it's crucial since I can't go about switching in and out of full screen applications to change a song etc.
Don't use Kubuntu then. It's hardly the KDE project's fault for that as you're trying to insinuate. Blame the Ubuntu edict on KDE 4, because they totally misunderstood what needed to be done, particularly where LTS was concerned - deliberately some would say.
There honestly isn't really any better KDE distros out there in my opinion.
Is anything ever finished? People set milestones for a software project and then make a release when those have been achieved. In the open source world that means that we try things out and if it doesn't do anything for us we stay where we are until it does do what we want.
Believe it or not, I'm not interested in excuses.
I think it's high time we moved past the bitching on 4.0 because things have been moving on regardless. 4.2 has become a great desktop just by itself and in the next couple of point releases the applications will have moved much further along with the platform to take advantage of what it can really do. Continuing to bitch about 4.0 is just going to look a bit sad and conspicuous.
It's not about bitching, I just want to use my desktop. I'm fedup of stuff that was really easy in KDE3, not possible in KDE4. For example, right clicking a archive file and selecting extract to/extract here or just using Konqueror without fish/ftps having various assorted bugs that it didn't have in KDE3 - it's hell annoying and in some cases, requires me to spend a extra few minutes doing what was just a few seconds on KDE3.
I'm sure that Al Gore, the man who invented the internet, will find that somehow white cars destroy the ozone layer, thus causing more of something that doesn't exist.
The assumption you're making here is that this is because of X. It could very well be the handling of DirectX calls to less expensive OpenGL equivalents at the expense of graphical quality. This is just a thought, and I would be interested in seeing the graphical differences of native vs wine/crossover/x.org/linux.
It's pretty much exactly the same here (having already compared snapshots with other people before with a similar argument) except for fonts being a bit screwed up and some UI elements in half life 2 (because they use fonts for the UI elements).
The idea that the display manager alone would result in a 20fps increase (especially considering X11 doesn't seem particularly suited for such a task) seems a bit outlandish to me.
You're making the assumption that the Windows implementation is perfect, I suspect the implementation of DX and graphics is not so clean as one would think in Windows Vista.
I'm sensing a theme here, that perhaps you need to reexamine your distribution of choice.
Most distros are pissing me off at the moment. I still want the vast repositories that Ubuntu provides without the non-sense of portage package hell. I don't have much choice in the issue, unfortunately.
Linux seriously needs to find a workaround to its licensing squabbles and find a way to get a rock-solid ZFS in the kernel.
I imagine you find FUSE is too slow then? Or is it the fact that Linux can't boot from ZFS?
Right now, ZFS on OpenSolaris is simply wonderful, and this is what I am deploying for file service at all my customer sites now.
I have also seen people deploying windows vista workstations as web servers for online stores, deployment at client sites doesn't mean much honestly.
The scary thing about file system corruption is that it is often silent, and can go on for a long time, until your system crashes, and you find that all of your backups are also crap.
I like LVM with snapshots for this reason.
I've replaced a couple of linux servers (and more than a couple of Windows servers) after filesystem and disk corruption compounded by naive RAID implementations (RAID[1-5] without end-to-end checksumming can make your data *less* safe), and my customers couldn't be happier.
Customers just want it to work, if it breaks or is very slow... Eventually something will always break, they will become unhappy when that happens.
Having hourly snapshots and a fast in-kernel CIFS server fully integrated with ZFS ACLS (and with support for NTFS-style mixed case naming) is jut icing on the cake.
Yes, I can do that too. Just permit all access for all users to filesystem in Samba's configuration (won't override filesystem permissions obviously), then use Linux ACLs on the filesystem to permit/deny people at will. It's not rocket science.
Now if only I could have an Opensolaris desktop with all the nice linux userland apps available. Oh wait, I can!
I liked playing Tetris in the installer of the early versions of Nexenta.
X is slow rendering widgets, handling events (window moves, resizes,...), etc...
People keep telling me, but I don't experience it -- I run x.org on older and newer hardware. With the introduction of compositing extensions into x.org that bypass this whole theoretical issue - I really don't see this as a problem, honestly.
I like how in Windows there is this clip art thing that comes up when you try to get help in office and it tells you stories but it doesn't really help you find any answers.
Those KDE 3.5 applications you like still exist, they didn't go away. You can use them with KDE 4.x, 3.5, Gnome, or many other desktop environments.
I can't. I set the global hot key in any kde3 application running in KDE4.x and the hot key doesn't work, preventing me from using the applications.
So use the WiFi manager you like. Personally, I use KnetworkManager. I believe that is a KDE 3.x application.
Kubuntu actually, not KDE. Thus, not available on all distros.
A quote from the KDE website: "KDE 3.5 is the more mature version of KDE. For more conservative users, this is the recommended version of KDE."
Didn't stop Kubuntu from adopting KDE4 as a default for all new releases without giving the option to use KDE3 on said releases.
So, why not stick with KDE 3.5 for the time being??? You aren't being forced to go to 4.x.
Considering I'm using the latest Kubuntu version to get updated applications, I am unfortunately - what sucks is that KDE4 isn't finished yet and they're pushing it as a full desktop system.
X11 protocol was writen long ago for effective (ashynchronous communication) between terminal consoles and servers. Note that at the time, whole mindset of personal computers was different. Companies had huge powerful mainframes and just connected to them via their simple consoles.
Of course, these days we have billions times more powerful 'dumb terminals' and billions more powerful servers.
But then desktop market exploded and everyone had powerful computer on their desk. And X11 just isn't designed to work well in this situation.
Here is my personal experience -- My Windows games, with all the settings maxed out, perform better (can be even 20fps difference) running under Wine/Crossover+x.org+Linux than natively under Windows. The only issue graphically is fonts, and that's caused by patent issues.
In my personal opinion, I think x11 is doing far better than Windows and OS X (considering that games tend to perform worse with crossover games mac than they do with crossover games linux) is.
The implementation of x.org does have it's issues, but these aren't issues in the x11 specification, GEM should be fixing these issues. I have written a bit on the subject.
The client-server architecture of X is just overhead in most cases.
Overhead that seems to be beating Windows on the same hardware. I'm not convinced it's a issue.
(Tell me, how many times did you attach to remote Xserver? - and with fast internet lines this could be done via VNC easily)
Once or twice, but I have ran plenty of applications remotely on my local xserver - I do it all the time. VNC doesn't give me application specific windows, or allow applications to communicate with the rest of my desktop applications, or use the theming of my desktop, or work well on very low latency connections (I use compressed ssh tunnels - doesn't work well with VNC), or allow desktop composition to work, or do 3d acceleration... I can go on, but I see no point.
The next thing is X11 protocol itself, the asynchronous design makes programming for X a terrible experience and just creates more problems than it solves (and it solves absolutelly nothing when it xserver and xclient are on same computer).
Perhaps you should give first theoretical examples? And then give practical applications of real world instances where this happens. While, I am aware of some theoretical disadvantages, they're not really a issue practically speaking.
http://www.std.org/~msm/common/WhyX.pdf
There is a lot of random rubbish you find in that documentation like "Unreadable window attributes", whereby it's been a non-issue for a while now because the freedesktop specifications provided a suitable workaround for this ages ago on how WMs etc. should communicate with each other and applications.
Hmmm... I have the opposite problem... for some reason paper size keeps defaulting to A4 and we don't have a sheet of it anywhere, only letter.
It's easy to change defaults, especially when using the add printer wizard - I just noted it was something I found weird about Windows - completely ignores my locale settings and suggests "letter" format.
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This looks like fun!
Here is what happened with my purchases a few months ago...
What I considered:
Mac Mini:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz
Graphics: Intel GMA 950 64MB shared
Drive: 80GB
RAM: 1GB
Optical: DVD-RW
2USB ports
Firewire
Price: £399
What I bought:
HP DV6xxx series laptop.
Processor: 1.66GHz processor
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS 512MB dedicated
RAM: 2GB RAM
Built in monitor: 1280x800
Built in webcam.
Built in bluetooth.
Universal SD-MS/Pro-MMC-XD card reader/writer
HDMI output
Remote control
3 USB ports
Firewire
Some new mini-pcie thing I have yet to use.
Price: £399 from Comet - no special sale going on.
Said laptop runs most of my games at maxed out settings.
Even if I compare my laptop to today's Mac Mini, even without the extra £100, I'd still buy the laptop. The laptop does pretty much everything I want. The laptop wasn't refurbished, it certainly isn't crappy either. I often find regular x86 laptops are cheaper than Macs are, when I visit the stores and look around.
Compared to stuff they've done in anti-trust cases? This isn't low at all for them, they're getting better.
Because there are plenty of Windows users that don't, and get on just fine. I actually know many people who would choose Windows over OS X just because it can't do that Windows can, which is, run Windows software they use.
I could use the same excuse for users buying a cheaper PC with a Linux OS preinstalled, but guess why it wouldn't fly? Because it doesn't run what people want or they aren't willing to deal with a unfamiliar system.
With all the users I know... Most Apple users I know don't use OS X because of the reasons you gave, same goes for Linux. They would likely still use OS X and/or Linux even if it did have those problems.
I don't sell my old computers. As for usability, I don't really see how they're more usable than my regular x86 systems.
*looks over at 14 year old x86 system still running fine and doing useful tasks*
My six year old desktop PC is my gaming system, the only thing I've upgraded in the recent years is the graphics card, it runs all my games at maximum settings. So, I'm pretty confused as to how you got to your "nothing" statement.
What utter non-sense, you can run a Linux variant or even Solaris on that hardware.
I can tell you're a old Mac user, because you used the term "wintel" earlier. Wintel was a silly joke Mac fans made about Intel processors and Windows, back when they made fun of x86 being inferior, despite the fact benchmarks often showed x86 performed far better in most instances that did not involve ALTEC. I have come to the conclusion that you're a Apple zealot.
Note: I am not the original poster.
I never really considered a mini to be mid range honestly. I considered it to be low-end netbook quality hardware which is expensive because of it's size and brand. It doesn't even come with dedicated graphics memory like the Koala mini does. Although you can't really compare Koala mini to it either, because it doesn't have the same graphics chipset and it has dedicated graphics memory on the graphics card too.
Personally, I'd go for the Koala, even if it is a little bit more expensive to get the 120GB, since the superior graphics performance thanks to the dedicated memory means a lot for gaming and certain productivity uses - plus it can be even configured with a much faster processor than the Mini can for the same size (I think that's awesome personally). A computer that just does E-mail, word processing and web browsing isn't really enough for me unless it's a tiny netbook - fortunately the Koala exists as a nice desktop solution for people like me.
I know truly piss poor people who got a VW thanks to loans (not the smartest decision for purchases in my opinion, but they're happy so... heh) - what is your point?
I have many years experience with PCs and I know how to install / fix Windows, Linux, Solaris, AROS, BSDs, AmigaOS, AMOS, HP/UX etc. I am platform agnostic and have a love for computers. I've done plenty of system/network administration, development and support.
Really? I am not impressed with OS X.
I was appalled by it's OpenGL support being terribly broken, buggy graphic drivers (for example - I had a stupid problem of 3d graphical applications killing the OS because I had 4GB of regular physical RAM, 1GB more than what the graphics drivers preconceived possible or some crap) making development and crossplatform development hell. I was not amused discovering that 64bit GUI applications must be coded in objective-c and cocoa - hence why there is no 64bit version of photoshop. My experiences with it's compatibility with Mac hardware was terrifying, for example, having wireless devices no longer function on certain OS updates, kernel panics on certain bluetooth devices that came with the Mac which work perfectly fine with other operating systems on the same hardware.
I have had over the years more hardware failures with Macs than any other vendor I've used. Many of which were "logicboard failures" (Apple's way of saying that the motherboard they sold you was faulty). Not to mention discovering the insane amount of thermal paste used and other things.
I was not impressed by the lack of drag and drop support in x11 nor was I happy about the clipboard buggyness in x11 on OS X. I haven't taken a liking to the interface, and unlike Linux, there is no real skin-ability in the desktop environment and the 'hacks' that are available for getting around this, screw up.
The file I/O performance in my experience its pathetic when compared to Windows and Linux on the same hardware, in all honesty, I am confused as to how you came to the conclusion that OS X "trumps every other OS there", even ignoring the fact that it's server operating system is absolutely terrible and cannot compare to any other, and accepting the very limited working software selection in comparison to Linux and Windows.
So, have you only ever owned this single Mac? How long? Do you truely think this single experience is good enough to determine that all Macs are great?
As is OS X. I don't use Safari, imovie, itunes, idvd, iphoto, quicktime, garageband, iweb etc. I will never use them, I have no interest in using them.
Don't use Windows then? It takes me approximately 30 minutes to install and configure kubuntu with all the software I use, fully functional. I don't think taking 30 minutes on a new computer is unacceptable.
Because the code is mature and proven?
I have a tendency to get pissed off when I update my system and I need to reboot. OS X Leopard makes me reboot for things I never needed to in Windows... Quicktime, codecs, java and so on. All requiring annoying restarts.
I would bother replying to the majority of your post if you weren't AC. Peace out.
Incorrect, he didn't rule out the possibility, only the likeliness of it happening.
Unlike the US, agencies in the UK don't wait for people to "tip" or "report", instead proper licensing schemes are produced to ensure companies reach the standards needed. The licensing schemes subject the companies to random, regular spot-checks to ensure they are following the license requirements, otherwise they lose the license to continue operating in that field.
This is far different from selection schemes I've seen used in by States, where no regularity action is initially taken.
Why? Doesn't your operating system categorize it under graphical programs and then give a informative tip next to the name saying that it's a image manipulation program?
Facts are facts, it hot keys aren't working for me in KDE3 applications under a KDE4 desktop and that has prevented me from using KDE3 applications under a KDE4 desktop.
OpenSuSE doesn't have a large repository selection like Kubuntu, despite the fact it does have KDE3.5.
For example, majority of amateur radio applications that are available on Kubuntu isn't on OpenSuSE, applications like virtualbox require me to go to the website and download it rather than doing "yast -i virtualbox" etc. There is no official Skype, Google, repositories. I have to wait days for OpenSuSE's wine repositories to update, while I don't have to for the ones provided for Ubuntu.
OpenSuSE lacks what I find great about Kubuntu (it has repositories for everything) and exchanging it for KDE3 is tempting, but having to deal with compiling certain applications, in particular, compiling amateur radio applications is too much of an annoyance. Nevermind recompiling the software each time there is an update, having to check for said updates etc.
Excuse, to serve as a reason or cause or justification of.
Seems like an excuse to me.
I do, and with applications like Amarok, it's crucial since I can't go about switching in and out of full screen applications to change a song etc.
There honestly isn't really any better KDE distros out there in my opinion.
Believe it or not, I'm not interested in excuses.
It's not about bitching, I just want to use my desktop. I'm fedup of stuff that was really easy in KDE3, not possible in KDE4. For example, right clicking a archive file and selecting extract to/extract here or just using Konqueror without fish/ftps having various assorted bugs that it didn't have in KDE3 - it's hell annoying and in some cases, requires me to spend a extra few minutes doing what was just a few seconds on KDE3.
It's caused by a creature which is half man, half bear, and half pig.
It's pretty much exactly the same here (having already compared snapshots with other people before with a similar argument) except for fonts being a bit screwed up and some UI elements in half life 2 (because they use fonts for the UI elements).
You're making the assumption that the Windows implementation is perfect, I suspect the implementation of DX and graphics is not so clean as one would think in Windows Vista.
Most distros are pissing me off at the moment. I still want the vast repositories that Ubuntu provides without the non-sense of portage package hell. I don't have much choice in the issue, unfortunately.
It's still under heavy development and the developers do not recommend it for production usage yet.
I imagine you find FUSE is too slow then? Or is it the fact that Linux can't boot from ZFS?
I have also seen people deploying windows vista workstations as web servers for online stores, deployment at client sites doesn't mean much honestly.
I like LVM with snapshots for this reason.
Customers just want it to work, if it breaks or is very slow... Eventually something will always break, they will become unhappy when that happens.
Yes, I can do that too. Just permit all access for all users to filesystem in Samba's configuration (won't override filesystem permissions obviously), then use Linux ACLs on the filesystem to permit/deny people at will. It's not rocket science.
I liked playing Tetris in the installer of the early versions of Nexenta.
People keep telling me, but I don't experience it -- I run x.org on older and newer hardware. With the introduction of compositing extensions into x.org that bypass this whole theoretical issue - I really don't see this as a problem, honestly.
Solved.
Note, I am not the grand father poster.
I can't. I set the global hot key in any kde3 application running in KDE4.x and the hot key doesn't work, preventing me from using the applications.
Kubuntu actually, not KDE. Thus, not available on all distros.
Didn't stop Kubuntu from adopting KDE4 as a default for all new releases without giving the option to use KDE3 on said releases.
Considering I'm using the latest Kubuntu version to get updated applications, I am unfortunately - what sucks is that KDE4 isn't finished yet and they're pushing it as a full desktop system.
Of course, these days we have billions times more powerful 'dumb terminals' and billions more powerful servers.
Here is my personal experience -- My Windows games, with all the settings maxed out, perform better (can be even 20fps difference) running under Wine/Crossover+x.org+Linux than natively under Windows. The only issue graphically is fonts, and that's caused by patent issues.
In my personal opinion, I think x11 is doing far better than Windows and OS X (considering that games tend to perform worse with crossover games mac than they do with crossover games linux) is.
The implementation of x.org does have it's issues, but these aren't issues in the x11 specification, GEM should be fixing these issues. I have written a bit on the subject.
Overhead that seems to be beating Windows on the same hardware. I'm not convinced it's a issue.
Once or twice, but I have ran plenty of applications remotely on my local xserver - I do it all the time. VNC doesn't give me application specific windows, or allow applications to communicate with the rest of my desktop applications, or use the theming of my desktop, or work well on very low latency connections (I use compressed ssh tunnels - doesn't work well with VNC), or allow desktop composition to work, or do 3d acceleration... I can go on, but I see no point.
Perhaps you should give first theoretical examples? And then give practical applications of real world instances where this happens. While, I am aware of some theoretical disadvantages, they're not really a issue practically speaking.
There is a lot of random rubbish you find in that documentation like "Unreadable window attributes", whereby it's been a non-issue for a while now because the freedesktop specifications provided a suitable workaround for this ages ago on how WMs etc. should communicate with each other and applications.
You don't want a killer's^H^H filesystem?
It's easy to change defaults, especially when using the add printer wizard - I just noted it was something I found weird about Windows - completely ignores my locale settings and suggests "letter" format.
Indeed.
Over the years I have collected both retail and OEM along with MSDN copies of windows.
Both retail and OEM discs are set to use British currency, locale, timezone, keyboard settings etc. by default.