And plenty of us aren't using DRI2 or XVNC. There's a lot of legacy requirements out there you know, and being able to use X on my laptop to connect to IRIX or HPUX is quite nice, and very fast.
Extremely slow, mind you, because most desktop systems that do not support the required level of 3D acceleration have fairly slow CPUs in them (usually Pentium IV and Pentium III systems. May God have mercy on people trying to use a Pentium II or older for a desktop these days)
Someone hasn't been paying attention - for quite a while now GNOME has been the frontend to systemd. It was integrated from the start (of systemd).
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Slackware recieves regular security updates, so claiming it hasn't been updated in that time is false. Version.next has been in Alpha for a little long now - usually Slackware releases once per year.
Actually...we do have Windows on ARM, as recently as Windows 10 on the RPi. And we used to have Windows on MIPS and PPC - how do we know that Microsoft doesn't still have an internal port? Or that Apple doesn't still have a PPC build of OS X?
For me Linux runs slightly better then Windows 10 on my laptop (Precision M4500). Windows 10 keeps breaking things (like my touchpad), so for smooth operation Linux actually wins in my case (battery life is roughly the same, CUDA works great on my Quadro card, I don't have switchable graphics, but I'm told they're a pain). Matlab is one of those wonderful cross platform pieces of software - works great for me in Solaris, OS X, Windows, or Linux.
Have you filed bug reports? People can't address problems they don't know exist. Many laptops are fully functional without problem, so you can't expect someone to know you have a problem.
Except, of course, the large amount of proprietary software that does run on Linux just fine - Oracle software, Matlab, Steam, C-Forge IDE, shall I continue? There is nothing wrong with proprietary software - it should be the user's choice if they wish to use it.
Good for a few things, to be honest. First one of them is configuration - GRUB (since GRUB 2) is a nightmare to configure. LILO is very simple. Second (less common) is installation - LILO installs itself to the MBR (or start of the partition) and does not require access to a system partition for it's configuration (so if something accidentally deletes/etc/lilo.conf LILO still works). I suppose number three is the small size of LILO, and it being slightly faster then GRUB.
All the places I've been since joining the professional workforce don't spend anywhere near that. The place I interned in college at (2007) gave the interns the oldest crap that still functioned - Pentium 3s and CRTs were common with much of the staff there. My previous job (2013-2015, a Network Security company in between Baltimore and DC) issued me a Precision M4700 with a 1366x768 display resolution and two 1080p monitors for when I was at my desk. The company I am with now is a similar setup - I have two 24" 1080 monitors, and in both places my setup has been on the upper end of what people have (some people at my current place have triple monitors). Outside of graphics design I don't see companies spend money on displays - they keep them far longer then the desktops (we have some Sony monitors that date back to 2006 running at 1280x1024 that for a chunk of the company is their secondary display.).
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And plenty of us aren't using DRI2 or XVNC. There's a lot of legacy requirements out there you know, and being able to use X on my laptop to connect to IRIX or HPUX is quite nice, and very fast.
If you didn't notice, Poettering works for Red Hat. And who wrote and maintains more Linux software then anyone else? Red Hat.
In all honesty, why would the American people want to change?
Perhaps, but I sorta remember Intel and AMD both having licenses to make ARM processors.
Maybe. Red Hat has a very different legal outlook on things then Canonical does.
Extremely slow, mind you, because most desktop systems that do not support the required level of 3D acceleration have fairly slow CPUs in them (usually Pentium IV and Pentium III systems. May God have mercy on people trying to use a Pentium II or older for a desktop these days)
Actually, nVidia and Intel GPUs are fully supported in Solaris (on x86).
Well....Apple never claimed to be in the first place. There is very little Apple software that is intended to run on non-Apple computers.
I doubt that Steam is hit by this - Steam doesn't modify system files. (I can't test this for myself though, my MBP is stuck on 10.6...)
Someone hasn't been paying attention - for quite a while now GNOME has been the frontend to systemd. It was integrated from the start (of systemd).
Slackware recieves regular security updates, so claiming it hasn't been updated in that time is false. Version.next has been in Alpha for a little long now - usually Slackware releases once per year.
Actually...we do have Windows on ARM, as recently as Windows 10 on the RPi. And we used to have Windows on MIPS and PPC - how do we know that Microsoft doesn't still have an internal port? Or that Apple doesn't still have a PPC build of OS X?
For me Linux runs slightly better then Windows 10 on my laptop (Precision M4500). Windows 10 keeps breaking things (like my touchpad), so for smooth operation Linux actually wins in my case (battery life is roughly the same, CUDA works great on my Quadro card, I don't have switchable graphics, but I'm told they're a pain). Matlab is one of those wonderful cross platform pieces of software - works great for me in Solaris, OS X, Windows, or Linux.
Have you filed bug reports? People can't address problems they don't know exist. Many laptops are fully functional without problem, so you can't expect someone to know you have a problem.
I just bought a 10" Winbook that isn't horrible - even has a full size USB 3.0 port on it.
Professional looking UI? Perhaps you've missed recent changes in the UI in Windows and OS X?
Well, there used to be Internet Explorer for Solaris, HP-UX, and Mac OS....
For a while there I was using KDE on windows. I think the project might be dead though.
It used to be on Solaris, HPUX, IRIX, and I think AIX too!
Except, of course, the large amount of proprietary software that does run on Linux just fine - Oracle software, Matlab, Steam, C-Forge IDE, shall I continue? There is nothing wrong with proprietary software - it should be the user's choice if they wish to use it.
Not sure if you noticed, but Microsoft has replaced its boot loader a few times now (BCD vs boot.ini vs Whatever they added in Windows 8)
Good for a few things, to be honest. First one of them is configuration - GRUB (since GRUB 2) is a nightmare to configure. LILO is very simple. Second (less common) is installation - LILO installs itself to the MBR (or start of the partition) and does not require access to a system partition for it's configuration (so if something accidentally deletes /etc/lilo.conf LILO still works). I suppose number three is the small size of LILO, and it being slightly faster then GRUB.
Slackware team offered to help. They might fork it
No systemd - they're using Apple's launchd instead.
All the places I've been since joining the professional workforce don't spend anywhere near that. The place I interned in college at (2007) gave the interns the oldest crap that still functioned - Pentium 3s and CRTs were common with much of the staff there. My previous job (2013-2015, a Network Security company in between Baltimore and DC) issued me a Precision M4700 with a 1366x768 display resolution and two 1080p monitors for when I was at my desk. The company I am with now is a similar setup - I have two 24" 1080 monitors, and in both places my setup has been on the upper end of what people have (some people at my current place have triple monitors). Outside of graphics design I don't see companies spend money on displays - they keep them far longer then the desktops (we have some Sony monitors that date back to 2006 running at 1280x1024 that for a chunk of the company is their secondary display.).