With their insipid design and terrible software, I don't see Samsung and HTC competing with Nokia anyway.
You have a point about HTC but Samsung could squash Nokia like a bug. Samsung makes their own CPUs, Screens, etc. while Nokia has been wholesale dissolving their manufacturing capacity. Samsung is still the sleeping giant in the cellphone industry despite being the second strongest player.
In your rush to be an obnoxious troll you forgot the other half of that equation which is that the hardware is also made with OSX in mind. Just like there is hardware made with Linux in mind, e.g., ships with Linux drivers. Compare like to like. Now go and choke on your own tongue.
Try installing OSX on 20 different laptops and see how far you get. The main difference is with Linux you have a pretty good chance that most of those laptops will run just fine whereas with OSX...I think you know.
Only on hardware designed to work with them. Same as with Linux. If you are having wpa2 issues with Linux you are probably using a card with a ralink chipset. It is notorious for being shitty.
It's funny, I've seen the argument many times that Android could have been built on top of any number of other kernels and, yes, technically that is true. But they always forget the little details like power optimization, vendor experience with the system, the fact that Google is basically a full-scale Linux shop on their own servers, and on and on.
Sound like progress, but can it give me one icon in the taskbar per window, not one icon per class of application, making me click a second time to select the window?
Sadly, if that is a show stopper you will be disappointed. Personally I like the grouping but I can see how you would like the separate icons. One possible workaround would be to put multiple icons on the dock for any application you're likely to have multiple windows open for but that's obviously not ideal.
What it means is that Apple has moved far more devices in the pocket-size tablet segment of the market than Android device makers have.
That doesn't mean that the total number of iOS device sales exceeds Android though. And I'd be very surprised if iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches total daily sales exceeds Android device daily sales right now.
How well have the 4- and 5-inch Galaxy Player been selling compared to the iPod touch since the Galaxy Player's October 2011 release, let alone iPT units sold between the July 2008 introduction of the App Store and then? I'll guess Samsung hasn't come near matching Apple
Of course the iPod Touch outsells the Galaxy Player. Again, though, that doesn't mean that iOS devices outsell Android devices as a whole. Remember that 1 million Android phones and tablets sell every single day. My question is how many iOS devices sell in the same amount of time.
I would be willing to accept that in the history of iOS, more of those devices have sold but I do not think the sales velocity right now is in Apple's favor.
Is 12.x vastly different from 11.x? I spent enough time in 11.x to learn where things are, and it was a terribly bad user experience for me - too much like Windows in it's horrible default configuration before I switch everything to be sane.
12.04 fixed a lot of bugs from 11.10 and added some functionality. You'd have to try it out to see if it addressed your particular concerns.
I want to switch between fullscreen apps with a single mouseclick. Mac does that well. Windows does that well (after a beatdown of its defaults). Ubuntu was too busy hiding the taskbar (which belongs across the bottom of the screen, btw, not the side) and combining multiple windows into one icon and still only fitting a few icons on the screen, so I'd often have to scroll.
There is an option in the settings that turns off auto-hide of the dock. I believe that might be the default now. Unity Rotated is a PPA that when installed moves the dock to the bottom.
iOS includes iPads and iPods, which vastly outsell Android equivalents.
That's what I was responding to. You're saying that doesn't have anything to do with sales when that's exactly what the guy is saying? If you want to talk about internet usage then start a new conversation about it but trying to reframe this one to fit your talking points isn't going to get you very far.
That's because you're not counting iPads & iPods. They're both iOS devices.
On the contrary. I'm saying that iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches combined does not equal 1 million shipped units a day. Do you have reliable numbers that contradict this?
Which Android device corresponds to the iPod touch again? If none, then yes, Apple is moving that many iDevices.
So, let me see if I'm following your logic here. You're saying if there is no Android device that correspands to the iPod Touch (for the sake of argument, there is) then that mere fact alone means Apple is moving more iDevices than Android devices. Really? Really??
So Android might be selling many phones, but they probably also sell to many more people that never or only occasionally use it to browse the web, while if you're spending 5x that you probably do that for a reason (or you're just an Apple fanboi) and is going to use it actively. So I have no real problem believing these figures.
I don't have a problem believing the figures of there being more iOS devices spending time on the 'net but I do have a hard time believing there are more iOS devices being sold.
Who cares? Last I heard it's doing pretty well everywhere other than the desktop. I've got three Linux based consumer devices within arms reach and only one of them counts as a traditional PC.
Android ships on over a million devices a day and that doesn't even include the large numbers of non-Google sanctioned gear. Is Apple really moving that many iDevice?
I'm not sure if there are any games that absolutely require it but there is the DirectX 10 and above issue that doesn't run on XP. Also my friends that run multiple instances of MMORPGs at a time say that the scheduling improvements in 7 make things a lot smoother for the purpose.
More importantly, however, my question I pose to all of "/." is this. Why does someone not simply take whatever was (by general consensus) the best version of Gnome before they started ripping features out of it, and then figure out which one to fork Gnome in to. Since it's FLOSS, (UIAVMM...) anything you really wanted could be build on top of an older version. Why are we still letting people so obviously out of touch with what users want or need, it's just ask for, or even demand
Here you go! The issue with Mate being a first class citizen is multi-fold though. First of all, despite many people not liking Gnome 3, they don't want to use something they perceive as "old" so going with a Gnome 2 fork just doesn't sit well. Another issue is there were many architectural problems and inherent bugs in Gnome 2 that were solved in the new version. Do the people maintaining Mate have the chops and resources to address these issues? I think ultimately projects like Mate and Trinity (KDE 3.5) serve a great purpose to maintain a legacy environment for people that just won't have it any other way but it is very doubtful that the full force of the community will ever get behind something like this mainly for the reasons I outlined above.
I'm a big fan of Unity and I see it get slagged off all the time typically by people using outdated or incorrect information. If I'm in the mood I just calmly respond explaining what I like about Unity and talking up some of its features that might go unnoticed to a user that hasn't given it much time. I rarely get flamed and often the post gets modded up enhancing the visibility of a Unity "success story". As far as Gnome 3 goes, I've tried it a few times and there are some things I like including Mutter and a lot of the old Gnome 2 bugs having been fixed. Other than that, I don't really see a whole lot. The Gnome team removed a lot of functionality that was present in Gnome 2 yet somehow didn't really make the DE any easier to use AFAICT. Nor do I see any productivity improvements like I get with, i.e., the HUD in Unity. But I'm always up for embracing something better so my question to you as a Gnome 3 advocate is this: what am I missing that might win me over?
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Nokia is no Apple. Stop kidding yourself.
With their insipid design and terrible software, I don't see Samsung and HTC competing with Nokia anyway.
You have a point about HTC but Samsung could squash Nokia like a bug. Samsung makes their own CPUs, Screens, etc. while Nokia has been wholesale dissolving their manufacturing capacity. Samsung is still the sleeping giant in the cellphone industry despite being the second strongest player.
As for Super AMOLED, the downside is the pentile (RGBG as opppsoed to RGB) pixel arrangement which induces fuzziness in text.
That's funny. I'm looking at a Galaxy Nexus right now and the text isn't remotely fuzzy. As a matter of fact it is crystal clear.
Apple made OSX specifically for Apple hardware
In your rush to be an obnoxious troll you forgot the other half of that equation which is that the hardware is also made with OSX in mind. Just like there is hardware made with Linux in mind, e.g., ships with Linux drivers. Compare like to like. Now go and choke on your own tongue.
When you buy a Linux system from Dell or System76, they will provide the updates for you and the drivers in my experience always work.
Try installing OSX on 20 different laptops and see how far you get. The main difference is with Linux you have a pretty good chance that most of those laptops will run just fine whereas with OSX...I think you know.
Only on hardware designed to work with them. Same as with Linux. If you are having wpa2 issues with Linux you are probably using a card with a ralink chipset. It is notorious for being shitty.
But a significant fraction of the games use direct3d so the de facto split is windows/direct3d and Linux/Mac/OpenGL.
It's funny, I've seen the argument many times that Android could have been built on top of any number of other kernels and, yes, technically that is true. But they always forget the little details like power optimization, vendor experience with the system, the fact that Google is basically a full-scale Linux shop on their own servers, and on and on.
Sound like progress, but can it give me one icon in the taskbar per window, not one icon per class of application, making me click a second time to select the window?
Sadly, if that is a show stopper you will be disappointed. Personally I like the grouping but I can see how you would like the separate icons. One possible workaround would be to put multiple icons on the dock for any application you're likely to have multiple windows open for but that's obviously not ideal.
What it means is that Apple has moved far more devices in the pocket-size tablet segment of the market than Android device makers have.
That doesn't mean that the total number of iOS device sales exceeds Android though. And I'd be very surprised if iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches total daily sales exceeds Android device daily sales right now.
How well have the 4- and 5-inch Galaxy Player been selling compared to the iPod touch since the Galaxy Player's October 2011 release, let alone iPT units sold between the July 2008 introduction of the App Store and then? I'll guess Samsung hasn't come near matching Apple
Of course the iPod Touch outsells the Galaxy Player. Again, though, that doesn't mean that iOS devices outsell Android devices as a whole. Remember that 1 million Android phones and tablets sell every single day. My question is how many iOS devices sell in the same amount of time.
I would be willing to accept that in the history of iOS, more of those devices have sold but I do not think the sales velocity right now is in Apple's favor.
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Is 12.x vastly different from 11.x? I spent enough time in 11.x to learn where things are, and it was a terribly bad user experience for me - too much like Windows in it's horrible default configuration before I switch everything to be sane.
12.04 fixed a lot of bugs from 11.10 and added some functionality. You'd have to try it out to see if it addressed your particular concerns.
I want to switch between fullscreen apps with a single mouseclick. Mac does that well. Windows does that well (after a beatdown of its defaults). Ubuntu was too busy hiding the taskbar (which belongs across the bottom of the screen, btw, not the side) and combining multiple windows into one icon and still only fitting a few icons on the screen, so I'd often have to scroll.
There is an option in the settings that turns off auto-hide of the dock. I believe that might be the default now. Unity Rotated is a PPA that when installed moves the dock to the bottom.
I guess it's still some kind of win for slashdotters to have Linux in as many machines as possible.
Um, probably because for people that use Linux, the more choice the better. Do I detect a hint of sour grapes?
iOS includes iPads and iPods, which vastly outsell Android equivalents.
That's what I was responding to. You're saying that doesn't have anything to do with sales when that's exactly what the guy is saying? If you want to talk about internet usage then start a new conversation about it but trying to reframe this one to fit your talking points isn't going to get you very far.
That's because you're not counting iPads & iPods. They're both iOS devices.
On the contrary. I'm saying that iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches combined does not equal 1 million shipped units a day. Do you have reliable numbers that contradict this?
Which Android device corresponds to the iPod touch again? If none, then yes, Apple is moving that many iDevices.
So, let me see if I'm following your logic here. You're saying if there is no Android device that correspands to the iPod Touch (for the sake of argument, there is) then that mere fact alone means Apple is moving more iDevices than Android devices. Really? Really??
So Android might be selling many phones, but they probably also sell to many more people that never or only occasionally use it to browse the web, while if you're spending 5x that you probably do that for a reason (or you're just an Apple fanboi) and is going to use it actively. So I have no real problem believing these figures.
I don't have a problem believing the figures of there being more iOS devices spending time on the 'net but I do have a hard time believing there are more iOS devices being sold.
Who cares? Last I heard it's doing pretty well everywhere other than the desktop. I've got three Linux based consumer devices within arms reach and only one of them counts as a traditional PC.
Android ships on over a million devices a day and that doesn't even include the large numbers of non-Google sanctioned gear. Is Apple really moving that many iDevice?
I'm pretty sure the "majority of people" haven't actually tried it to see.
I'm not sure if there are any games that absolutely require it but there is the DirectX 10 and above issue that doesn't run on XP. Also my friends that run multiple instances of MMORPGs at a time say that the scheduling improvements in 7 make things a lot smoother for the purpose.
More importantly, however, my question I pose to all of "/." is this. Why does someone not simply take whatever was (by general consensus) the best version of Gnome before they started ripping features out of it, and then figure out which one to fork Gnome in to. Since it's FLOSS, (UIAVMM...) anything you really wanted could be build on top of an older version. Why are we still letting people so obviously out of touch with what users want or need, it's just ask for, or even demand
Here you go! The issue with Mate being a first class citizen is multi-fold though. First of all, despite many people not liking Gnome 3, they don't want to use something they perceive as "old" so going with a Gnome 2 fork just doesn't sit well. Another issue is there were many architectural problems and inherent bugs in Gnome 2 that were solved in the new version. Do the people maintaining Mate have the chops and resources to address these issues? I think ultimately projects like Mate and Trinity (KDE 3.5) serve a great purpose to maintain a legacy environment for people that just won't have it any other way but it is very doubtful that the full force of the community will ever get behind something like this mainly for the reasons I outlined above.
I'm a big fan of Unity and I see it get slagged off all the time typically by people using outdated or incorrect information. If I'm in the mood I just calmly respond explaining what I like about Unity and talking up some of its features that might go unnoticed to a user that hasn't given it much time. I rarely get flamed and often the post gets modded up enhancing the visibility of a Unity "success story". As far as Gnome 3 goes, I've tried it a few times and there are some things I like including Mutter and a lot of the old Gnome 2 bugs having been fixed. Other than that, I don't really see a whole lot. The Gnome team removed a lot of functionality that was present in Gnome 2 yet somehow didn't really make the DE any easier to use AFAICT. Nor do I see any productivity improvements like I get with, i.e., the HUD in Unity. But I'm always up for embracing something better so my question to you as a Gnome 3 advocate is this: what am I missing that might win me over?
I think its a little silly they keep making new spinoff distros for different choices on what packages you want to install
I'm pretty sure the only officially supported version of *buntu at this point is Ubuntu. Everything else is done by the community not Canonical.