Sadly, Debian wheezy doesn't have Mate, nor even poor workarounds like Cinnamon. You'd have to go with XFCE which I find somewhat lacking, or one of fifty or so niche alternatives (I used to be a sworn WindowMaker user until ~10 years ago. It doesn't seem to have improved since then...).
Actually, I for one don't really have use for anything produced by the worst offenders: I have enough ways to waste time better than watching movies, my taste in music differs from what any RIAA label produces, and I hardly ever play games that I don't have commit rights to.
Yet by admitting defeat and running from the blighters, you're doing a disservice to the general population, and ultimately, yourself: if easy to access by a regular person ways to obtain pieces of culture[1] are shut down, the MAFIAA will crack down on not completely obscure havens. If enough people show civil disobedience, the politicians will realize taking bribes here costs them votes -- and losing votes will deprive them from other opportunities for taking bribes. Thus, it's important to keep sending the message across.
Double-Click (and by extension Google or any of their paid advertisers) sees all.
Just use a browser that doesn't cripple privacy features, and adblock ad and tracking sites. As about any advertising is from third-party domains, a sane referer policy will help against bastards you missed, too. Also, it's quite vital to block Google's click jacking (go to 2nd page of results or amend your query, note the URL of a link, then with mouse still over the link, click and watch the URL changing). And so on, so on...
BtrFS is not completed in the sense that Linux, Dungeon Crawl or Team Fortress 2 are not completed: new features get added all the time, but the core works remarkably well.
Or are you that idiot admin who runs btrfs on production servers?
BtrFS has not been completed yet. ReFS is shipping. ReFS will not have all the features of the completed BtrFS, but for now ReFS offers features not available in any shipping Linux.
Not all addons for BtrFS are completed, but the filesystem itself works -- and works well, while ReFS still lacks even basics such as booting. And as GP said, there's hardly anything in common between ReFS' and BtrFS' features.
For example, Poland: * Android: 1.45% * Linux: 0.82% (yeah, obviously with Android excluded) * OS X:: 0.73% * iOS: 0.69%
As a kid, I had access to one of first PC XTs in Poland, and after all those years, I have yet to see a live Mac (ssh / hackintosh excluded). So I find even that 0.73% value dubious.
At 40'' and with multiple windows, you effectively have a multi-monitor setup (in one piece of hardware), where the aspect ratio of individual screens doesn't matter.
What would you want a dedicated TV for? Neither me nor any of my friends (excluding older generation -- I'm 34) even owns a TV. It's also been years since I last watched a movie that didn't make me want the time back, so I simply stopped. Some of my friends still download and watch some series, but that's what, an hour or two per week.
Almost anything I deal with would be better viewed in a portrait orientation. Code generally shouldn't exceed 80 columns while having more lines on the screen is a nice thing to have. For ordinary text, centuries of typographic practice established the optimal width of a column of text at around 60 characters, on a narrow strip of a monitor this means either a small font size (and thus eyestrain) or having to scroll every a few lines. There's a reason it's hard to find a paper publication in landscape.
Too bad, while a 4:3 screen can be easily rotated into 3:4 (and is good enough even without rotation), 9:16 would be way over the other edge. That's why you can't buy a 16:9 pivot -- it'd be even more useless than 16:9 landscape is.
It's about image format; since people move away from dedicated TVs at a rapid rate, forcing people to watch their movies on a narrow strip of a screen means they'll either end up with a display unsuitable for anything else, or will complain about black strips.
So it's the users that quit Gnome. It's telling when not only Debian switches to XFCE by default, the most popular newbie user distribution (Mint) has a thorough fork of Gnome3 (Cinnamon) and an outright rejection of it (Mate), but even the very home of Gnome (Red Hat) relents and includes Mate as an option.
It's politically uncomfortable to admit defeat, but I hope those folks will come to their senses, slap an epoch on Gnome2 and upgrade to 2.32 with Mate's improvements. Because Gnome2 was a good deal ahead of what XFCE or KDE has to offer.
Every single penny spent on advertising makes the product's price that much higher. Plus the waste, management costs, consulting/what not costs, CMO's yachts, salaries of the marketing team, and so on. Competing products that are not advertised are thus a better choice.
Advertising also distorts the knowledge people have about a product, making them buy based on ads (positively for most of the society or negatively for the likes of me), instead of choosing a product based merely on its price and merits.
0. install AdBlock, configure it to axe not just ads but also all trackers and similar sleaze. And especially all those Fecesbook/Google+/Twatter/whatever "likes".
Looks like we have different definitions of "fairly well". After an aeon or two of swapping, it manages to render Slashdot after all, but I don't have that much patience. And, on many pages (sadly, Slashdot excluded), elinks is actually not that bad.
Sorry, but with only 224MB memory, this is a bad idea. I've tried multiple browsers on Pi -- including full-blown like Firefox or Chromium, and minimalistic like Midori; the only one that's actually usable is elinks. Especially if pages as bloated as Slashdot are involved.
Gooseberry, if it ever becomes something more than vapourware, might get into an usable range (512MB minus video memory).
It's interesting how no graphical browser of today can cope with that little memory, when back in the day we could browse fine with 4MB.
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It's a -NC license, so it can be at most gratis, not free.
Sadly, Debian wheezy doesn't have Mate, nor even poor workarounds like Cinnamon. You'd have to go with XFCE which I find somewhat lacking, or one of fifty or so niche alternatives (I used to be a sworn WindowMaker user until ~10 years ago. It doesn't seem to have improved since then...).
Gnome doesn't allow this choice?
Consistently with the rest of Gnome, it doesn't. And the tray not working is a deal breaker in my book.
No, requiring ten extensions for basic functionality isn't acceptable either.
Actually, I for one don't really have use for anything produced by the worst offenders: I have enough ways to waste time better than watching movies, my taste in music differs from what any RIAA label produces, and I hardly ever play games that I don't have commit rights to.
Yet by admitting defeat and running from the blighters, you're doing a disservice to the general population, and ultimately, yourself: if easy to access by a regular person ways to obtain pieces of culture[1] are shut down, the MAFIAA will crack down on not completely obscure havens. If enough people show civil disobedience, the politicians will realize taking bribes here costs them votes -- and losing votes will deprive them from other opportunities for taking bribes. Thus, it's important to keep sending the message across.
[1]. No matter how low that culture is.
Because I'm a cheap ass bastard and if they figure out I won't pay more than $0.01 for content they'll charge me that.
Dude... why overpay? Even with 'er captain in chains, capt'n Anakata's ship goes strong.
Double-Click (and by extension Google or any of their paid advertisers) sees all.
Just use a browser that doesn't cripple privacy features, and adblock ad and tracking sites. As about any advertising is from third-party domains, a sane referer policy will help against bastards you missed, too. Also, it's quite vital to block Google's click jacking (go to 2nd page of results or amend your query, note the URL of a link, then with mouse still over the link, click and watch the URL changing). And so on, so on...
qemu+wine are ----> over there. Although a hog like Visual Studio would take ages to even start.
Did you miss the "when completed" part?
BtrFS is not completed in the sense that Linux, Dungeon Crawl or Team Fortress 2 are not completed: new features get added all the time, but the core works remarkably well.
Or are you that idiot admin who runs btrfs on production servers?
What's the problem with that?
BtrFS has not been completed yet. ReFS is shipping. ReFS will not have all the features of the completed BtrFS, but for now ReFS offers features not available in any shipping Linux.
Not all addons for BtrFS are completed, but the filesystem itself works -- and works well, while ReFS still lacks even basics such as booting. And as GP said, there's hardly anything in common between ReFS' and BtrFS' features.
For example, Poland:
* Android: 1.45%
* Linux: 0.82% (yeah, obviously with Android excluded)
* OS X:: 0.73%
* iOS: 0.69%
As a kid, I had access to one of first PC XTs in Poland, and after all those years, I have yet to see a live Mac (ssh / hackintosh excluded). So I find even that 0.73% value dubious.
Does Windows 8 have an opt-out feature?
Yes, they do
For now.
At 40'' and with multiple windows, you effectively have a multi-monitor setup (in one piece of hardware), where the aspect ratio of individual screens doesn't matter.
What would you want a dedicated TV for? Neither me nor any of my friends (excluding older generation -- I'm 34) even owns a TV. It's also been years since I last watched a movie that didn't make me want the time back, so I simply stopped. Some of my friends still download and watch some series, but that's what, an hour or two per week.
Almost anything I deal with would be better viewed in a portrait orientation. Code generally shouldn't exceed 80 columns while having more lines on the screen is a nice thing to have. For ordinary text, centuries of typographic practice established the optimal width of a column of text at around 60 characters, on a narrow strip of a monitor this means either a small font size (and thus eyestrain) or having to scroll every a few lines. There's a reason it's hard to find a paper publication in landscape.
Too bad, while a 4:3 screen can be easily rotated into 3:4 (and is good enough even without rotation), 9:16 would be way over the other edge. That's why you can't buy a 16:9 pivot -- it'd be even more useless than 16:9 landscape is.
It's about image format; since people move away from dedicated TVs at a rapid rate, forcing people to watch their movies on a narrow strip of a screen means they'll either end up with a display unsuitable for anything else, or will complain about black strips.
Sorry, 7680x4320 means a 16x9 aspect ratio, and a monitor by that proportion is useless for any actual work.
Unless you're using a Google keyboard with that useless search button, there's a key named Caps Lock for that... :p
Most countries count alcohol content in blood in permilles, not percents.
So it's the users that quit Gnome. It's telling when not only Debian switches to XFCE by default, the most popular newbie user distribution (Mint) has a thorough fork of Gnome3 (Cinnamon) and an outright rejection of it (Mate), but even the very home of Gnome (Red Hat) relents and includes Mate as an option.
It's politically uncomfortable to admit defeat, but I hope those folks will come to their senses, slap an epoch on Gnome2 and upgrade to 2.32 with Mate's improvements. Because Gnome2 was a good deal ahead of what XFCE or KDE has to offer.
Every single penny spent on advertising makes the product's price that much higher. Plus the waste, management costs, consulting/what not costs, CMO's yachts, salaries of the marketing team, and so on. Competing products that are not advertised are thus a better choice.
Advertising also distorts the knowledge people have about a product, making them buy based on ads (positively for most of the society or negatively for the likes of me), instead of choosing a product based merely on its price and merits.
Next up, in media, would probably be ComcastNBCUniversal.
Or even, AOLTimeWarner.
0. install AdBlock, configure it to axe not just ads but also all trackers and similar sleaze. And especially all those Fecesbook/Google+/Twatter/whatever "likes".
Looks like we have different definitions of "fairly well". After an aeon or two of swapping, it manages to render Slashdot after all, but I don't have that much patience. And, on many pages (sadly, Slashdot excluded), elinks is actually not that bad.
Sorry, but with only 224MB memory, this is a bad idea. I've tried multiple browsers on Pi -- including full-blown like Firefox or Chromium, and minimalistic like Midori; the only one that's actually usable is elinks. Especially if pages as bloated as Slashdot are involved.
Gooseberry, if it ever becomes something more than vapourware, might get into an usable range (512MB minus video memory).
It's interesting how no graphical browser of today can cope with that little memory, when back in the day we could browse fine with 4MB.
And what about individual rooms on a Zeppelin?