Europe is not USA.
You say no - you get crowds on the streets. You say no to crowds - you get Riots.
That's more of a southern Europe thing. Finns are actually quite mild what comes to demonstrations or riots. We might rant a bit and then inoffensively accept the government decisions.
Yup. Like I said in the previous story about Fedora 18, the state of Linux these days is appalling and I find no reason to suggest it to a happy Windows 7/OS X user at all. Windows 8 user, maybe, but I'd rather learn and teach said user the new way to do things in Windows 8 rather than switch to a completely different platform with its own quirks.
Pretty much my thoughts. I used Linux exclusively through the entire Windows XP era because I hated XP. Vista was a failure too.
Enter Windows 7. My PC works fast and smooth, I have lots of software and full-feature hardware drivers, and the horrible security track record has been fixed to a good enough level. Why not?
I don't have strong opinions about the software stack being open source or using UNIX. I just want to do interesting and creative things with my computer, and right now this seems to do the job.
When i saw the big Amazon icon at the Unity taskbar after install 12.10, I know it's time for me to leave Ubuntu...
That is a too small reason to completely switch a distribution, especially when the instructions to remove the silly Amazon thing can be looked up easily.
When googling for some Linux answers there often comes up rather insightful posts from the Arch Linux bulletin board. I don't use the distro myself, but I see the smart people in their community as a positive thing.
There can be many distributions, but there could be one reference distribution, which the likes of Steam, Quartus and MATLAB could target and have a sanely supportable platform.
If we want the Year of Linux on Desktop to come, we will need more these kind of strict, conservative standards. One of the top reasons why developers don't want to target the platform is that things are changing way too wildly.
This is WRONG.
Almost all 802.11 a/b/g/n devices will actively probe for ESSIDs that they have previously used.
Your phone is constantly broadcasting for access points.
No, that is wrong. WiFi access points constantly send beacons (I think the default is every 100 ms) and all the client has to do is to keep listening for these broadcasts, and then start sending data when a familiar AP is detected.
Does Microsoft allow you to resize existing partitions to make space for the new OS? Has Microsoft stopped their long-held practice of hosing the first primary partition & MBR as either gross incompetence or punishment for dabbling with the competition? Does Microsoft allow you to remove / replace the desktop environment if you find the bundled one doesn't suit your needs / preferences?
Some of these are just KISS decisions that make Windows work on so many different PCs.
I actually care. You don't have to say GNU/Linux though, something like "desktop Linux" is fine. The kernel and all the other stuff piled on top of it are two very different beasts. It is good to make the distinction.
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Europe is not USA.
You say no - you get crowds on the streets. You say no to crowds - you get Riots.
That's more of a southern Europe thing. Finns are actually quite mild what comes to demonstrations or riots. We might rant a bit and then inoffensively accept the government decisions.
I will pick up his throne as a rock star Linux developer.
There's a reason Win and Mac don't go with various desktops: it would be a support nightmare. Which is exactly what we are seeing in the Linux world.
Yup. Like I said in the previous story about Fedora 18, the state of Linux these days is appalling and I find no reason to suggest it to a happy Windows 7/OS X user at all. Windows 8 user, maybe, but I'd rather learn and teach said user the new way to do things in Windows 8 rather than switch to a completely different platform with its own quirks.
Pretty much my thoughts. I used Linux exclusively through the entire Windows XP era because I hated XP. Vista was a failure too.
Enter Windows 7. My PC works fast and smooth, I have lots of software and full-feature hardware drivers, and the horrible security track record has been fixed to a good enough level. Why not?
I don't have strong opinions about the software stack being open source or using UNIX. I just want to do interesting and creative things with my computer, and right now this seems to do the job.
Ubuntu desktops were fine, before that Unity crap. That pushed me back to fvwm2 --- which still completely rocks!
*facepalm*
When i saw the big Amazon icon at the Unity taskbar after install 12.10, I know it's time for me to leave Ubuntu...
That is a too small reason to completely switch a distribution, especially when the instructions to remove the silly Amazon thing can be looked up easily.
When googling for some Linux answers there often comes up rather insightful posts from the Arch Linux bulletin board. I don't use the distro myself, but I see the smart people in their community as a positive thing.
Quite possibly so.
What does "more organic user interfaces" mean?
Fewer pesticides.
But then you get more bugs.
Kind of interesting that it's running out of memory. I believe most slashdottings are caused by network or CPU saturation.
It's a hassle to babysit servers at home anyway.
There can be many distributions, but there could be one reference distribution, which the likes of Steam, Quartus and MATLAB could target and have a sanely supportable platform.
If we want the Year of Linux on Desktop to come, we will need more these kind of strict, conservative standards. One of the top reasons why developers don't want to target the platform is that things are changing way too wildly.
one could even say it's GNU slash Linux. Or, as I've taken to calling it more recently, GNU plus Linux.
Linux distributions are much more than just Linux and GNU.
I too am kind of tired of all the "if I had mod points" comments. You just don't have them, so STFU. ;)
Hmm. That would be an interesting phenomenom to research a bit. Do you have any clues as to why it happens there?
This is WRONG. Almost all 802.11 a/b/g/n devices will actively probe for ESSIDs that they have previously used. Your phone is constantly broadcasting for access points.
No, that is wrong. WiFi access points constantly send beacons (I think the default is every 100 ms) and all the client has to do is to keep listening for these broadcasts, and then start sending data when a familiar AP is detected.
First of all (to GP), I like the videos and would like to see 'em in future too.
However a download link to a video file would also be a nice addition. Even the guys at Channel 9 provide it. ;)
Also known as The Year of Linux on Desktop...
16 colors, not 16-bit colors.
Does Microsoft allow you to resize existing partitions to make space for the new OS? Has Microsoft stopped their long-held practice of hosing the first primary partition & MBR as either gross incompetence or punishment for dabbling with the competition? Does Microsoft allow you to remove / replace the desktop environment if you find the bundled one doesn't suit your needs / preferences?
Some of these are just KISS decisions that make Windows work on so many different PCs.
Completely agree.
I actually care. You don't have to say GNU/Linux though, something like "desktop Linux" is fine. The kernel and all the other stuff piled on top of it are two very different beasts. It is good to make the distinction.
What I also like about KDE is that most of these little options actually work properly.
Yes, but if the installation can be modified to work for non-technical people too, why not do it?