As Zarquon arrives to greet his followers for the second coming, some rabid descendant of a/.er will still be talking about the expected coming of the Year of Linux on the Desktop. In fact, we should rename the entire "Year of Linux on the Desktop" to "The Year following the Second Coming of Zarquon".
I am certain that we'll see airborne pigs long before we'll see Linux on the desktop. In fact, if you take all the worst parts of Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 and combine them into the worst UX ever created for Windows, it still beats every single Linux distribution for usability save Android. Linux on the desktop will not even happen after we've vacated earth due to the Sun turning into a Red Giant. Neither will Windows be either, but...
Say after me: "Linux on the desktop is never going to happen. Ever". Now breathe.
But then again, I am certain you spoke in jest and the people who modded you "Insightful" simply do not have sarcasm detectors:-)
Yeah, 'cause nobody ever has problems with OS updates, right. Particularly not the ones with specialized hardware. Just ask the Apple guys. The music dudes who use Apple never have problems at all. You know, if you define "never" as "with almost every single update of OSX".
When adults converse they use arguments, when children converse they don't. Talk to an adult so that they can help you. Remember, it is better to sit quietly in a corner having everybody think you are a moron than to open your mouth and remove any doubt.
Eh, no. Al Jazeera is nowhere near the league of Fox. Seriously. Al Jazeera is far more balanced than almost any news source in the US, and FAR more balanced than news sources in Europe. In fact, in Northern Europe these days I'd call the "native" news sources being entirely anti-Jewish in its coverage of the Middle-Eastern conflict.
It was very refreshing to see a female reporter from Al Jazeera tear several new orifices in the Hamas leadership about their use of civilians as shields for their military operations while European news sources were busy talking about the evils of the evil army populated by evil Jews in the evil state of Israel. The Hamas leader said multiple times things similar to "I will not be talked to like this by a mere woman". I have never seen a roasting like that on any European or US news channel of those murderous terrorist bastards.
oak Ridge ran a functioning thorium reactor from 1965 to 1969. US shut down thorium research in 73, and has not done much since. If one could operate a thorium reactor 50 years ago, how is it a pipe dream?
"official" stance is that Linux and MS are the "bestest friends evar!1
Yeah, you must be right. I mean, the fact that they are rapidly porting just about all of their development stuff to OSX and Linux is just to pretend they like Linux. The fact that they support Linux in a heavy way in their cloud and enterprise offerings is just another example of the Embrace Extend Extinguish mentality.
Here's a tip from me to you. Update your knowledge slightly more often than once every decade or so lest you will not only appear, but actually be, ignorant.
Seriously? The entire post is pure BS. Shill much for Apple do we? Just about every reviewer who's worked with these disagree with you. I use it for PS all the time. Your statements are all nonsense.
Actually, statistically, all people in the world (maybe bar one or two) are atheists. There are thousands of potential (and equally probable) gods out there. Let's, for fun, just say it is 1000. So, a Christian person is 99.9 percent atheists. I believe in zero gods, and I am therefore 100% atheist. The difference is insignificant and irrelevant. Everybody is an atheist.
Why on earth would I want to spend time learning a new UI, when the old one isn't limiting me in any measurable way.
How do you know. You admit to never having seen the alternative? The comment is essentially moronic based on ignorance. Are you religious perhaps? For all you know the UI, and the functionality could cut your time by 90%.
I also prefer vi(m) to everything else.
For simple text editing, vi(m) is fantastic. If you are a developer and use vi(m) as your main editor, you are a retarded moron with a brain the size and shape of a raisin.
Having a root canal in all my teeth with no sedation would be FAR more comfortable than switching back to using Eclipse as my main development environment. Seriously. Visual Studio is that much better. The reality is that VS is what Eclipse could have been if Eclipse developers knew anything about usability. C# is what Java could have been if it wasn't (both now and before) managed by a moronic committee. The fact that I can now deploy on Linux is a huge plus, but I would not give up Visual Studio as my dev environment. Nothing comes close.
For desktop apps you are better off with Visual Studio Community Edition (previously known as Visual Studio Professional). The community edition is not, like the older Express editions, a paired-down version of VS, this is the full Professional edition.
"Shit, those guys came up with some cool stuff we didn't think of. Give us a couple of years to look at it, then we'll create the exact same product, have it specced at half the specs and priced at twice.
I have and use and like my Mac Book Pro. I have Windows 10 on my home PC. In fact, I love my Mac Book Pro. It's Unix the way nobody else was able to do it. It's the "Year of Linux on the Desktop", just that it's not Linux. On the other hand, I am more productive on my Win10 desktop. There are more tools. There is more speed per dollar. There are more options. Very importantly - my Windows 10 PC runs Visual Studio, and there simply isn't anything out there, written by anyone ever, that can touch Visual Studio as a development environment. The competition doesn't even reach the knee level of VS. I can develop Android apps on VS2013 and 2015 better than is possible on anything else anywhere. Running the Microsoft Android emulator is like driving a Porche Carrera to the 1969 VM Bug from Google.
I could of course run Linux on my desktop, but the apps simply are no there. Oh, and the UI is, still, after all these years, a horrible monstrosity so bad that everybody involved in designing it should be "taken out back and shot".
Tes, 99% of Windows 10 users are being spied upon. 100% of Gmail users are being spied upon. 100% of Apple users are...
Mitigating being spied upon entails moving into a cave somewhere and never coming out. I am not happy about MS spying, but you can't metigate being spied upon by not being a MS customer. In this regard MS is neither worse not better than basically all realistic alternatives. Oh and if you even attempt to claim Linux is an alternative, you are a moron. Linux is FAR less an alternate be than fixing your router is.
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(without driver CD's).
If you can get online, no need for any CDs at all. This is no different than Linux. CDs? Really?
I'm not sure that that 'window' has closed.
As Zarquon arrives to greet his followers for the second coming, some rabid descendant of a /.er will still be talking about the expected coming of the Year of Linux on the Desktop. In fact, we should rename the entire "Year of Linux on the Desktop" to "The Year following the Second Coming of Zarquon".
I am certain that we'll see airborne pigs long before we'll see Linux on the desktop. In fact, if you take all the worst parts of Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 and combine them into the worst UX ever created for Windows, it still beats every single Linux distribution for usability save Android. Linux on the desktop will not even happen after we've vacated earth due to the Sun turning into a Red Giant. Neither will Windows be either, but...
Say after me: "Linux on the desktop is never going to happen. Ever". Now breathe.
But then again, I am certain you spoke in jest and the people who modded you "Insightful" simply do not have sarcasm detectors :-)
Yeah, now we only have to struggle with Safari hacks. Safari is now the new IE6/7/8. Sigh.
Yeah, 'cause nobody ever has problems with OS updates, right. Particularly not the ones with specialized hardware. Just ask the Apple guys. The music dudes who use Apple never have problems at all. You know, if you define "never" as "with almost every single update of OSX".
When adults converse they use arguments, when children converse they don't. Talk to an adult so that they can help you. Remember, it is better to sit quietly in a corner having everybody think you are a moron than to open your mouth and remove any doubt.
Eh, no. Al Jazeera is nowhere near the league of Fox. Seriously. Al Jazeera is far more balanced than almost any news source in the US, and FAR more balanced than news sources in Europe. In fact, in Northern Europe these days I'd call the "native" news sources being entirely anti-Jewish in its coverage of the Middle-Eastern conflict.
It was very refreshing to see a female reporter from Al Jazeera tear several new orifices in the Hamas leadership about their use of civilians as shields for their military operations while European news sources were busy talking about the evils of the evil army populated by evil Jews in the evil state of Israel. The Hamas leader said multiple times things similar to "I will not be talked to like this by a mere woman". I have never seen a roasting like that on any European or US news channel of those murderous terrorist bastards.
oak Ridge ran a functioning thorium reactor from 1965 to 1969. US shut down thorium research in 73, and has not done much since. If one could operate a thorium reactor 50 years ago, how is it a pipe dream?
I work
Not for the past decade for sure.
"official" stance is that Linux and MS are the "bestest friends evar!1
Yeah, you must be right. I mean, the fact that they are rapidly porting just about all of their development stuff to OSX and Linux is just to pretend they like Linux. The fact that they support Linux in a heavy way in their cloud and enterprise offerings is just another example of the Embrace Extend Extinguish mentality.
Here's a tip from me to you. Update your knowledge slightly more often than once every decade or so lest you will not only appear, but actually be, ignorant.
Seriously? The entire post is pure BS. Shill much for Apple do we? Just about every reviewer who's worked with these disagree with you. I use it for PS all the time. Your statements are all nonsense.
The dictionary is wrong. Seriously. It is.
Actually, statistically, all people in the world (maybe bar one or two) are atheists. There are thousands of potential (and equally probable) gods out there. Let's, for fun, just say it is 1000. So, a Christian person is 99.9 percent atheists. I believe in zero gods, and I am therefore 100% atheist. The difference is insignificant and irrelevant. Everybody is an atheist.
Photoshop has everything in one window so doing split-screens doesn't make any sense
Ignorance is bliss I guess. Any part of the Photoshop UI can be un-docked and moved to another monitor.
Why on earth would I want to spend time learning a new UI, when the old one isn't limiting me in any measurable way.
How do you know. You admit to never having seen the alternative? The comment is essentially moronic based on ignorance. Are you religious perhaps? For all you know the UI, and the functionality could cut your time by 90%.
I also prefer vi(m) to everything else.
For simple text editing, vi(m) is fantastic. If you are a developer and use vi(m) as your main editor, you are a retarded moron with a brain the size and shape of a raisin.
For .Net 3.5 and above. No 2.0. 2.0 is from the Stone Age. Upgrade.
despite eclipse being right there
Having a root canal in all my teeth with no sedation would be FAR more comfortable than switching back to using Eclipse as my main development environment. Seriously. Visual Studio is that much better. The reality is that VS is what Eclipse could have been if Eclipse developers knew anything about usability. C# is what Java could have been if it wasn't (both now and before) managed by a moronic committee. The fact that I can now deploy on Linux is a huge plus, but I would not give up Visual Studio as my dev environment. Nothing comes close.
Remember, it's better to sit quietly in the corner having everyone think you are a clueless moron than to speak and remove any doubt.
Moron. Typical Slashdot.
Visual Studio Code is free. Vistual Studio Community Edition (same as Professional) is free. You need to leave the 1990s.
For desktop apps you are better off with Visual Studio Community Edition (previously known as Visual Studio Professional). The community edition is not, like the older Express editions, a paired-down version of VS, this is the full Professional edition.
Why would that matter? .Net is open source.
"Shit, those guys came up with some cool stuff we didn't think of. Give us a couple of years to look at it, then we'll create the exact same product, have it specced at half the specs and priced at twice.
I have and use and like my Mac Book Pro. I have Windows 10 on my home PC. In fact, I love my Mac Book Pro. It's Unix the way nobody else was able to do it. It's the "Year of Linux on the Desktop", just that it's not Linux. On the other hand, I am more productive on my Win10 desktop. There are more tools. There is more speed per dollar. There are more options. Very importantly - my Windows 10 PC runs Visual Studio, and there simply isn't anything out there, written by anyone ever, that can touch Visual Studio as a development environment. The competition doesn't even reach the knee level of VS. I can develop Android apps on VS2013 and 2015 better than is possible on anything else anywhere. Running the Microsoft Android emulator is like driving a Porche Carrera to the 1969 VM Bug from Google.
I could of course run Linux on my desktop, but the apps simply are no there. Oh, and the UI is, still, after all these years, a horrible monstrosity so bad that everybody involved in designing it should be "taken out back and shot".
What is more dangerous, dumb people or dumb questions like this?
Tes, 99% of Windows 10 users are being spied upon. 100% of Gmail users are being spied upon. 100% of Apple users are... Mitigating being spied upon entails moving into a cave somewhere and never coming out. I am not happy about MS spying, but you can't metigate being spied upon by not being a MS customer. In this regard MS is neither worse not better than basically all realistic alternatives. Oh and if you even attempt to claim Linux is an alternative, you are a moron. Linux is FAR less an alternate be than fixing your router is.